Word: nam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...team from Indo-China has just wound up a close study of U.S. training areas in Korea, and plans are afoot to increase the number of Viet Nam troops from 150,000 to 200,000 by the end of the year. Last week Washington called home its able ambassador in Saigon, Donald R. Heath, to take part in the conferences with France's Premier René Mayer. Said Ambassador Heath: "I should like to underline once more my unshakable conviction that the Associated States [of Indo-China] will be successful in protecting their freedom," and that a military solution...
...refugee camp a few miles outside Seoul last week, Ahn Nam-chang and her family were getting ready to go home. Nam-chang's husband was one of at least a million South Korean civilian casualties in the early days of the war, but she has a hunch that her old father is still living on his two-acre farm near Munsan. Nam-chang has three children. As if that were not enough, she has adopted a little girl-one of Korea's 100,000 war orphans-who would most likely have died...
Marching north over the bleak, desolate, road to Munsan that night, in the true spirit of independence, but with no designs of conquest, was the widow Ahn Nam-chang and her little family. It was the first full moon of the lunar new year and, in accordance with age-old custom, peasant folk were cracking open the hard little Korean walnuts to foretell the future. No matter that Korea lay devastated by war, there was still a future. If the kernels came out whole, that was a good omen. On the other hand, if they came out broken, that...
...villages in the area, only one in five is completely under Viet Nam control. Many tiny villages live in terror of the Communists, pay them tribute in rice and young recruits. How to cut off these villages from Communist influence is a problem which has long occupied northern Viet Nam Governor Nguyen Huu Tri. After long study he settled on a scheme successfully adopted by the British in Malaya-resettlement of peasants in protected villages. Fruitlessly he tried to talk the French military command into a three-part plan to 1) regroup scattered villages into strong farmers' communities...
...first protected settlement, Governor Tri chose Dong Quan, 55 miles south of Hanoi. A 300-acre patch of land surrounded by waterways, in the midst of thickly populated ricelands, Dong Quan is ideally located for defense as well as for village commerce. Within six months, 1,000 Viet Nam peasant families (about 10,000 people) will be brought in from 25 surrounding villages. The farmers will still work their old fields by day, but at night they will sleep in the town under protection of a strong Viet Nam militia. The plans for Dong Quan include a Christian church...