Word: mekong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...royal bed, and Chou blanketed the country with Communist propaganda. Cambodian newspapers began charging the U.S. with setting up military bases in the country. The local Chinese colony, seeing the royal favor conferred on Chou, began shifting its allegiance to Peking. Communist agents delivered money and mortars to Mekong River pirates raiding the borders of neighboring Laos and South Viet Nam. But perhaps Sihanouk's biggest mistake was to permit, in his onetime 100% Sihanouk Parliament, an opposition of so-called "progressives...
Last week French businessmen who had come hopefully to Cambodia after the debacle of Hanoi were leaving. In the Mekong River valley 6,000 peasants, terrified by pirates, put their cooking pots on their backs and, driving their water buffaloes before them, moved toward South Viet Nam. For Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the unkindest cut of all was the charge of "corruption in government" by the progressive opposition, and the cry for a Cambodian Republic. Said Sihanouk, with an accent of surprise: "The opposition is planning to discredit the indispensable monarchy. Because of my foolish dreams, things are going the wrong...
...financed by contributions from schoolchildren. As "Operation Brotherhood" got rolling, in came three French nurses, four Japanese, 19 Nationalist Chinese, three Thais, five Malayans, two U.S. secretaries, and some 200 Filipino doctors, nurses, dentists, nutritionists, social workers. Aged 18 to 60,they manned 14 medical centers, traveled through the Mekong delta by canoe and sampan, by army truck over the rugged roads of the Annam border country...
...guard against beriberi. They fought the threat of smallpox, typhoid and cholera epidemics. After the new arrivals' wounds were dressed, the most pressing problems remaining were the results of poor food and worse housing-or the lack of any. Said Brotherhood Chairman Oscar Alrenano, a Manila architect: "The Mekong can flow with penicillin, but it won't solve the problem until these people get more meat at lunch, and tiles instead of straw over their heads...
Vientiane-capital of the least of the three nations carved out of French IndoChina-lay in its habitual half-slumber beside the Mekong River. It was the Buddhist Lent in Laos. Temple gongs bonged in the viscous humidity; saffron-robed monks strutted about beneath gaudy parasols or sat cross-legged in the shade, puffing acrid French tobacco and sipping lemonade. Suddenly there was a stir. Official limousines swept out of the royal palace amid shrieking sirens and flapping royal banners (a three-headed elephant against a red background), bearing Prime Minister Prince Souvanna Phouma to the airport to meet...