Word: mekong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...birthplace of Cabinet ministers makes little difference to most Vietnamese, but the southerners in the regime resent the powers and patronage that the northerners enjoy. The feud came to a head in the Health Ministry, where Deputy Minister Nguyen Tan Loc, a native of the south's Mekong River Delta, decided to right the balance...
...latter, commanders in the field insist that at least 750,000 men will be required to permit the allies to seal off the South's sievelike borders and to send perhaps two divisions into the Mekong Delta, the southernmost section of the country. "Something has got to be done in the delta or you aren't going to win this war," said a high-ranking U.S. officer in Saigon. "Half the people in the country live there. We've got to control the delta, but we haven't got the men to send in there...
...more and more mastered by Asians themselves. In Viet Nam, it has bought time for independent Asians to get on with the business of nation building; over the next decade, it will pour out at least $1 billion a year to provide economic thrust, including funds for a vast Mekong Delta project. Its goal is a community of nonCommunist, though not necessarily aggressively antiCommunist, Asian nations that will act as a balance to Red China and create a pattern of practical meaningful cooperation...
...told, the free nations of Asia have embarked upon more cooperative action in the past year than ever before in their thousands of years of history. Though often historically at odds, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Viet Nam are working together on joint development of the immense resources of the Mekong River. Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand have set up the Association for Southeast Asia, an economic and social alliance aimed at ultimately achieving a Common Market...
...Phan Khac Suu, 61, the white-haired former Chief of State whose recalci trance brought down the last civilian government, ex-Premier Phan Huy Quat's "Medicine Cabinet" of 1965. A southerner with strong support in the populous Mekong Delta, Suu advocates a system of checks and balances between executive, legislature and a national Supreme Court...