Word: minh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...army in Algeria had purged itself of all senior officers with "liberal" tendencies and had set up Committees of Public Safety in every Algerian commune. Behind these maneuvers, charged L'Express, was a youthful, fascist-minded "college of colonels" whose moving spirits had served against the Communist Viet Minh in Indo-China. From their enemy they were said to have developed an intense admiration for Mao Tse-tung's psychological techniques in controlling villagers. (Algerian rebels who served in the French army in Indo-China are also said to have learned in the same school...
...leader, Prince Souphanouvong, was no Communist but a royal prince and a devout Buddhist, they argued; his followers were few and badly organized, and their program in any case was moderate: peace, unity, neutrality and cooperation with all nations, including Communist China and the neighboring Viet Minh. Only a few pessimists feared that by the general election of 1960 the Pathet Lao-which renamed itself the Neo Lao Hak Xat or Patriotic Front-might successfully subvert the charming little country, into which the U.S. was annually pouring some $43 million in aid. The first surprise came when Soupha-nouvong captured...
India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was doing his utmost to provide fun, games and proper roosts for three foreign birds of altogether different feathers. The New Delhi visitors: U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge, North Viet Nam's vermicelli-bearded Red Boss Ho Chi Minh, Afghanistan's King Mohammed Zahir Shah. By all odds, Ho was the corniest good neighbor, kissed every official within reach, made misty-eyed speeches with proletarian humility, begged New Delhi's schoolchildren to call him chacha (uncle), the same term of endearment they have been taught to call...
Three years ago the echoes of the Communist cannon that conquered Dienbienphu still rumbled over the vast rimland of non-Communist Asia. Flushed with victory. Mao Tse-tung in Peking and Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi boasted that the rest of Indo-China was theirs for the asking, and looked past Indo-China to Malaya, Thailand and Burma. But last week, almost three years since North Viet Nam was formally surrendered to Communism, the heady Communist visions had not materialized...
Kickback: 20%. The trouble can be traced to the days in 1955 when Communist armies of the Viet Minh hovered on Laos' borders after the French debacle at Dienbienphu. With the French withdrawing financial support, the urgent necessity was to keep the 25,000-man Laotian army in the field. In a hastily drawn agreement, the U.S. committed itself to exchange dollars for Laotian kip at the rate...