Word: nam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Banmethuot, South Viet Nam, high on a virgin plateau 150 miles northeast of Saigon, tribesmen from the surrounding jungle villages and refugees from Communist-run North Viet Nam are learning modern farming techniques from 60-year-old New Yorker John Barwick and a dozen young (23-26) men from U.S. farm families. Barwick and his wife Laura worked in foreign countries (in the Middle East with Arab refugees, in Europe with prisoners of war) for 15 years before going to Viet Nam for the International Voluntary Service two years...
...Viet Nam nearly 1,000,000 went from the Communist North to the South...
...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...
...dongs, all bearing Ho's portrait. But running an economy of 12 million people came a little harder. Today, salaries and taxes are still computed in bags of rice, and on this basis a worker earns 300 bags a year, while his counterpart in non-Communist South Viet Nam gets the currency equivalent of 1,500. In Hanoi, rice is still rationed, and beggars, though forbidden by law, swarm the streets. The dong has sunk so low-7,000 to the dollar-that it may well be the worst currency in the world. Even sister Communist countries refuse...
...Viet Nam. Raw material producers who suffer from falling prices should not simply increase production of their rice, tin or rubber. They should boost quality, not quantity: rubber producers, for example, should strive to make their product more competitive against synthetic rubber...