Word: hao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officials maintain that the generals are quietly accomplishing much beneath the surface; considered an important achievement is the junta's start at winning over the Hoa Hao and Cao Dai sects, many of whose members had collaborated with the Viet Cong. But the junta chairman, Lieut. General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, seems reluctant to wield power, and the outsized, 22-member military Revolutionary Council has taken few outwardly bold steps. Reported TIME Correspondent Murray Gart: "None of this proves that the generals cannot do the job of running South Viet Nam. It is too soon to tell...
...major. After a stint of advanced study at Paris' general staff school, he returned and, following Diem's installation in 1955, launched his guerrilla-style campaign against the Binh Xuyen bandits. He also helped Diem in his campaign to subdue two fanatic, rebellious religious sects, the Hoa Hao and Cao Dai. After a second training tour abroad-this one at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, where he picked up serviceable English-Minh in 1958 was chosen by Diem to be the first boss of a field operations command to coordinate the mounting...
...plotting against Diem, and the police and security forces were controlled by the notorious Binh Xuyen river pirates, who had bought the "concession" from puppet Emperor Bao Dai for $1,000,000. In the countryside, two religious sects with well-armed private armies, the Cao Dai and the Hoa Hao, ran two virtually independent fiefs...
...years. Biochemist Choh Hao Li has devoted himself to discovering the functions of a small part of a small, lima-bean-sized gland that is lodged at the base of the human brain. With each experiment the Canton-born professor of biochemistry and endocrinology has come closer than any man before him to explaining how the front half of the human pituitary, the body's master gland, controls so many functions through the hormones it manufactures. Because his success represents a singular medical triumph, Dr. Li last week was awarded the $10,000 Albert Lasker Basic Research Award...
...chaos of South Vietnam politics after the 1954 armistice it was difficult to distinguish French collaborators from genuine nationalists, and temporary allies of the Viet Minh from real Communists. The only non-communist political groups with any kind of grass roots following were the Cal Dai and Hoa Hao religious sects. But understandably American officials could not stomach any kind of permanent association with these tribes. And anyway they too had a history of collaboration with the French. Americans turned then quite naturally to the certain anti-communism and Western orientation of Catholics who composed a great majority...