Word: lacan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Control Commission, to divert the commission from complaints of Viet Minh infractions in the north. Last week, in two white jeeps and a black Citroën, a team of truce officers (an Indian, a Canadian and two Communist Poles) drove into a large Roman Catholic refugee settlement at Lacan, about 30 miles northeast of Saigon. "Do you want to go back to the north?" the officers asked a crowd of the refugees. "Khong, khong!" (No, no), the refugees responded. Twelve times the commission's officers repeated their question, and twelve times got the same answer...