Word: nam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Entering the seventh year of war in Indo-China, French and Viet Nam soldiers counted their hard-won gains over the Viet Minh Communists...
...Nam...
...Nam's overall aim was twofold: "Mass mutinies, riots and breakouts which had as their goal an eventual link-up with the Communist guerrillas and bandits in South Korea," and "direct violence designed to produce propaganda which might influence the armistice negotiations at Panmunjom." In the second of these ambitions, he succeeded only too well...
...over war-racked Viet Nam, from secure Saigon to tiny towns barely out of sound of Red gunfire, stevedores, coolies, wealthy rice merchants and civil servants jammed into polling places last week and in local elections gave Emperor Bao Dai's anti-Communist government a thumping vote of confidence. The Reds tried to scare off the voters with Sten guns; in one region they even kidnaped five candidates. But 80% of the registered voters turned out, and in some cases waited two and three hours to vote in Viet Nam's first elections...
...fraud. In Hanoi, for instance, 17 of the 18 winners were strongly anti-French nationalists; the biggest vote went to a candidate who had spent six years in a French political internment camp on Madagascar. "Even in my dreams I didn't expect such popular success," said Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Van Tarn...