Word: nam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least for the time being. "We ourselves propose the suppression of gambling dens," proclaimed the Binh Xuyen's General Le Van Vien to an astonished populace. "If we did run gambling in the past, it was only because we wanted to give the newly born state of Viet Nam an indispensable complement of money in taxes for its budget . . . Now we conceive the urgent necessity of a complete disinfection of the regime from all defects . . . to defeat Communist propaganda." At week's end, Binh Xuyen's spectacular gambling casino, Le Grand Monde, which in the old days...
...CRIMSON contains a comment by Herbert A. Philbrick on a petition circulated by the Harvard Fellowship of Reconciliation. For one thing, he misunderstands FOR's petition. He writes, "I will suggest that . . . they circulate the same petitions demanding that the surplus foods be circulated to South Viot Nam, where more than 350,000 homeless and hungry refugees, driven from their homes by the well fed Reds, are is dire need of subsistence." The Harvard FOR petition asked that the President send surplus food to all the needy, "regardless of political persuasion, particularly to Chins." The last three words would...
...clear, therefore, that the Fellowship of Reconciliation is wasting its time circulating petitions for food which is not needed by the Communists. I will suggest that as an alternative, they circulate the same petitions demanding that the surplus foods be circulated to South Viet Nam, where more than 350,000 homeless and hungry refugees, driven from their homes by the well fed Reds, are in dire need of substinence. Herbert A. Philbrick New York Herald Tribune
...felt embarrassed and angry when the Agriculture Department rejected Wolf Ladejinsky as Tokyo attache (TIME, Jan. 3 et. seq.-). Last week with White House approval, Ladejinsky got security clearance and another job (at his previous salary: $11,800) with Harold Stassen's Foreign Operations Administration in South Viet Nam. Ladejinsky, who planned the U.S.-sponsored land reforms in Japan that gave 3,000,000 peasant families their own farms, will blueprint similar reforms to win South Viet Nam's peasants away from Communism before next year's elections...
...which his prosecutors intend to show how the ex-Minister's policemen arrested wealthy Chinese and threatened to deport them "for helping the Viet Minh" unless the Chinese paid blackmail. Diem wants to use the trial to herald a big new campaign against corruption in demoralized South Viet Nam. There are faint signs that his austere new nationalism is beginning to catch an apathetic public's fancy. But Diem still has far to go and little time...