Word: nam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus tersely, in his bestselling The Quiet American, Novelist Graham Greene described Cao Daism, a gaudy gallimaufry of Buddhism, Confucianism and Christianity whose followers number at least one million and play a significant part in the confused politics of South Viet Nam...
Seven-Storied Hope. For President Diem, slowly and almost unnoticed by the outside world, has brought to South Viet Nam a peace and stability few would have dared predict when his country was dismembered at Geneva three years ago. Last week a traveler could journey from one end of the country to the other, by day or night, with never a worry about Viet Minh bandits. At night, villages that once huddled fearfully in the darkness are brightly lighted, with no fear of a grenade lobbing out of the shadows. In Saigon the exquisite bordellos run by the sinister Binh...
...further testimonial to Diem's progress came fortnight ago from the Communists. After years of insisting that South Viet Nam was just an illegitimate clique and not a government (they talk the same way about South Korea), the Russians gave up their insistence that the Communist governments in Viet Nam and Korea are the only true regimes, and proposed that both halves of each country be admitted...
...newspapers began charging the U.S. with setting up military bases in the country. The local Chinese colony, seeing the royal favor conferred on Chou, began shifting its allegiance to Peking. Communist agents delivered money and mortars to Mekong River pirates raiding the borders of neighboring Laos and South Viet Nam. But perhaps Sihanouk's biggest mistake was to permit, in his onetime 100% Sihanouk Parliament, an opposition of so-called "progressives...
Last week French businessmen who had come hopefully to Cambodia after the debacle of Hanoi were leaving. In the Mekong River valley 6,000 peasants, terrified by pirates, put their cooking pots on their backs and, driving their water buffaloes before them, moved toward South Viet Nam. For Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the unkindest cut of all was the charge of "corruption in government" by the progressive opposition, and the cry for a Cambodian Republic. Said Sihanouk, with an accent of surprise: "The opposition is planning to discredit the indispensable monarchy. Because of my foolish dreams, things are going the wrong...