Word: minh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Indonesian Reds had to cheer about last week was the state visit of aging Ho Chi Minh, President of Communist North Viet Nam. Wisp-bearded Ho kissed all the pretty girls in sight, thus scandalizing pious Moslems, who complained that his bussing of young women was "an overt violation of Moslem law." Sukarno, who always likes to say what visitors like to hear, called Ho "one of the greatest men in Asia." General Abdul Haris Nasution and his army kept order and their own counsel...
Neighboring Thailand and South Viet Nam strongly disapprove of Sihanouk's diplomatic recognition of Peking last July, but their differences really date back to ancient tribal feuds and jungle rivalries. South Viet Nam declares that Cambodia allows Communist Viet Minh guerrillas to cross its territory to stage raids in South Viet Nam; in retaliation, South Vietnamese troops picked up a border marker, moved it 1½ miles into Cambodia and threw a minefield around it. Thailand has given haven to opponents of Sihanouk. In a huff at these acts by his anti-Communist neighbors, Sihanouk accepted increased economic...
...influential Roman Catholic bishop, a third the governor of central Viet Nam. His pretty sister-in-law, Madame Ngo (TIME, Jan. 26), has little difficulty "persuading" her fellow Deputies in the Assembly to do as she says-no one dares oppose her. Continually threatened by Ho Chi Minh's Communist North Viet Nam, President Diem rules strongly, spends more money on jails than on schools. South Viet Nam must be scored a pro-Western country with authoritarian overtones. But in 1954, when Indo-China was carved up, few gave it any hope at all of surviving...
...small and troubled Communist land of North Viet Nam, just about the safest thing to be is a Cabinet Minister. If Boss Ho Chi Minh likes the man, he is apt to keep him around, no matter how many mistakes he makes. But the performance of Finance Minister Le Van Hien was too much even for the indulgent Ho to bear...
...Last week, his weight down to 90 Ibs., staying alive only with occasional pinches of salt, bowls of rice broth and fruit juice, Vo totted up his recent appeals to world figures, including U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, Nikita Khrushchev, President Eisenhower, Vietnamese Communist Boss Ho Chi Minh...