Word: hao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...test for South Viet Nam's Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. Premier Diem's 12,000 incoming Nationalist troops had to get effective control of a remote swampland, criss-crossed by bayous, devastated by war, undermined by Communist stay-behind agents, infiltrated by hostile troops of the Hoa Hao, a religious sect. Diem's Nationalists also had to start making convincing democratic answers to Camau's ten years of Communist indoctrination...
...Reached agreement that the U.S. would start training a 100,000-man Vietnamese army, plus a reserve of 150,000 men. The necessary funds would be transmitted through a new Vietnamese (not French) bank. ¶ Accepted the allegiance of 8,000 troops of the Cao Dai and Hoa Hao religious sects, whose hostile private armies were thereby reduced by about one-third. ¶ Started proceedings against wealthy Phan Van Giao, onetime Vice Premier and business manager for Chief of State Bao Dai, accusing him of misappropriating 5,650,000 piasters...
...Scramble. Mutiny, once started, is infectious. Like survivors in a leaky lifeboat, everyone suddenly wanted to share in the scramble for control. The Cao Dai, Hoa Hao and Binh Xuyen sects, who together control 40,000 soldiers, withdrew their support from Premier Diem, rallied to Hinh's side and demanded representation in Diem's government. At week's end Diem was still in the palace guarded by his partisans; Hinh was at his headquarters, guarded by his tanks. Diem denounced Hinh as a rebel. Hinh answered: "All we have left is a choice between two solutions...
...seemed that such luxuries had gone to the heads of some of the labor heroes: the Red press was full of warnings to the pampered patriots. Peking's People's Daily chided Labor Hero Wang Chung-hao, a Manchurian, who "became so arrogant and lazy, following his being named a labor hero, that his team subsequently turned in a very miserable result." Equally guilty was Shen Chao-ai, who got so involved with meetings, discussions, and visits from admirers that he stayed away from work for 90 days last year and had to be fined 2.7 piculs...