Word: nam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thought Filipino doctors and nurses might like to help out, so he put it up to the Manila headquarters of the Philippine Junior Chamber of Commerce. "Publicity stunt," argued some Manila skeptics, but last October the first seven Filipino doctors and three Filipino nurses set out for South Viet Nam. Their average age was 25. The Filipinos first set up straw-hut clinics in eight new villages (pop. 95,000) that the refugees were creating out of the jungle. They won respect with their drugs and their dedication. Yet the best assets of the Filipinos were their own likable dispositions...
...This is not just medicine for the body that you offer, but medicine for the spirit," said South Viet Nam's Premier Diem. "We thought we were alone in Viet Nam. Now we see that we're not." Happily, Oscar Arellano responded: "By golly, it's working...
...Communist North Viet Nam (pop. 12 million) came unmistakable signs that the austere autocracy of Ho Chi Minh is having trouble with its housekeeping. The rice crop of the devastated Red River Delta is down by 30% to 40%. The worst floods in 70 years have washed out irrigation dikes and dams, endangering the spring planting. Some 700,000 refugees have moved off to the rice-rich south, leaving for Ho their burned farmhouses and untilled land. An additional 10,000 refugees are fleeing the north every week. Refugees from Red Viet Nam reaching the French-held port city...
North Viet Nam, one of the world's most densely populated regions and never selfsupporting, once imported 300,000 tons of rice a year from the south. It paid with its coal, textiles and cement. Thanks to the Communists, however, trade in the north is now at a standstill, and there is heavy industrial unemployment. French and neutralist Indian businessmen are moving out. All but Communist official cars have disappeared. Ironically, Ho's own picture is becoming the symbol of Ho's economic distress: Viet Minh currency, which bears Ho's picture, is worth less than...
Last week, Ho's propagandists publicly recognized their difficulties by calling for "a resumption of normal . . . economic relations" with the South Viet Nam government of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem-in plainer terms, for some of Diem's 400,000 tons of surplus rice...