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Much of the Viet Cong terrorism in recent months has been aimed at South Viet Nam's national police, the canh sat. In one attack last week the raiders blew up the canh sat headquarters in Hien Nhon. In another, at Long An, raiders smashed a police checkpoint, killing three police. The enemy has good reason to try to cripple the cops. For the Vietnamese in the white uniforms do not handle only the usual policeman's lot of random robbery and mayhem. More and more, they are meeting the guerrillas face to face. "What is the guerrilla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Powerful White Mice | 12/10/1965 | See Source »

...four-engine C-130 Hercules transports and damaged two Delta Daggers and one Hercules. Estimated total cost: $5,000,000. The Viet Cong left behind them trails of blood indicating that several had been wounded. One was captured, turned out to be a North Vietnamese soldier named Do Xuan Hien, 29, who under questioning said that he had infiltrated into South Viet Nam three months ago with his entire battalion and had trained for the Danang raid for a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Bigger & Uglier | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

...troubled Communist land of North Viet Nam, just about the safest thing to be is a Cabinet Minister. If Boss Ho Chi Minh likes the man, he is apt to keep him around, no matter how many mistakes he makes. But the performance of Finance Minister Le Van Hien was too much even for the indulgent Ho to bear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH VIET NAM: The Land of the Dong | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

Papers have been announced by the following Harvard members. Professor Lanman; An incident in the life of the illustrius Chinese Buddhist monk, Fa-hien. Professor Lyon; The recently discovered tablet of Raman-nirari. Mr. F. D. Chester; Ibrahim al-Mausuli: coincident traditions in the Kitab al-Agani, At-Tabari, and the Thousand and One Nights. Professor Toy; Foreign words in the Koran...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: American Oriental Society. | 3/29/1894 | See Source »

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