Word: nam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smashup of French Indo-China in 1954 emerged four states: 1) Communist North Viet Nam, dark as night; 2) South Viet Nam, run by a strongly anti-Communist friend of the West; 3) the unpredictable Kingdom of Cambodia, which chose "active" neutrality; 4) a Red-riddled Kingdom of Laos, which felt it could afford nothing more dynamic than "plain" neutrality...
...bale, $25 cheaper than Japan's yarn. In Thailand, Japanese cotton piece goods had been virtually driven from the market by Chinese prices, which were as much as 15% lower. Other Red bestsellers: bicycles, sewing machines and scented cotton prints. Even in strictly anti-Communist South Viet Nam, where border guards check all cars and passengers to block entry of Chinese goods from Cambodia, Saigon's counters hold China's fountain pens, records, needles, thermos bottles and textiles...
...mesh satellite economies into Russia's forthcoming revised seven-year plan. Eastern European countries were directed to drop pet national industrial projects and produce what they can produce best. For the first time Soviet-bloc economic integration was extended to Communist Asia (China, North Korea, North Viet Nam...
...proper deportment . . . Now, on the other hand, every rebellion that I have ever heard of has its soldiers of fortune."). Advising the U.S. "not to play with fire," Sukarno added: "If the outside world is thinking in terms of making Indonesia into a second Korea or a second Viet Nam, there will be World...
...from France as the dominant power in North Africa. Artfully he recalled what happened when France, in dealing with the Communists, was obliged to give up its fight for Indo-China. The upshot of the 1954 Geneva Conference, he declared, was that the U.S. got control of South Viet Nam, the Chinese Communists got North Viet Nam, and "all we Russians got out of it was bills." This, Vinogradov confided, did not strike Nikita Khrushchev as an extraordinarily happy state of affairs...