Word: hoang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hoang Paris...
...factories are being run by Northerners. Helping keep order are fresh recruits, known contemptuously as Ba Muoi ("30s," meaning opportunists who joined the revolution after April 30). Says a recent exile from Saigon: "The North Vietnamese Army is still viewed as an army of occupation, not liberation." Adds Hoang Troung Tan, a former civil servant who escaped this fall: "The officials treated me and my father like slaves. My father is a fisherman who had to sell his catch to the government at a very low price. All the crops and products are being taken north...
...Forest City, Iowa, Johnny and Bonnie Nelson feel they have the right to resist the claim of Doan Thi Hoang Ann, who lives in Great Falls, Mont.; she insists she is the mother of the fouryear-old Vietnamese child they call Ben. Says Mrs. Nelson: "At first I was trying to look at it as if I were in her shoes. But we couldn't just give him away to someone claiming to be his mother without any proof." When both sides went into court over Ben, Mrs. Nelson decided, "If he reacted to her in a loving...
...Viet Nam's territory and 40% of its citizens were under Communist rule. It was probably only a matter of Hanoi's choosing and timing before the coup de gráce would be delivered to Saigon. Even so stalwart a defender of the Saigon regime as Hoang Due Nha, 33, a cousin and confidant of President Nguyen Van Thieu's, admitted: "The Communists have put a noose around our neck." Nha insisted that the government can slip out of it, but he conceded that "it will be close, very close...
...Corps (the Mekong Delta), who has long been suspected of pocketing the salaries of some 36,000 "phantom troops"-men who are on the payroll but nowhere else in the military. Thieu also cashiered 377 corrupt officers and dismissed four Cabinet ministers, including his cousin and confidant, Information Minister Hoang Due Nha, 32, who was responsible for censoring (and often confiscating) Saigon's Vietnamese-language newspapers...