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Word: lacan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1955-1955
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIET NAM: The Lesson of Seven Nails | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

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