Word: ngoc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main reasons for the elusiveness of a Cambodian ceasefire as many observers have noted has been that U.S. influence in the country's political life is stronger than that of the regime established after the March 1970 coup instigated by CIA agent Son Ngoc Thanh. No amount of stepped-up B52 bombing can change that fact. Unless the U.S. stops its interference in Phnom Penh, chances for a ceasefire will remain...
According to Ho Ngoc Nhuan, an opposition member of South Viet Nam's lower house, many of the prisoners "have never committed a political act in their lives. Political activities have been excuses used against the poor who haven't the money to protect themselves from police corruption." There is even a kind of fixed scale of bribes. A suspect against whom nothing definite has been found may be able to buy his release for $3 or $4. More prosperous businessmen are held up for more; if gold or large amounts of currency are found in their possession...
...recession worries officials of the Thieu regime. "I am not too worried about the economic situation for the rest of the year," says Economic Minister Pham Kim Ngoc, "but after that, if there's not a solution or Congress doesn't understand the need for economic aid, it will be serious." Such bleak forecasts, of course, are nothing new in Saigon. Yet even high government officials, who owe a large share of their remaining credibility to the hope of eventual prosperity in South Viet Nam, seem to realize that they cannot allow the downward economic spiral to continue...
...some time, South Viet Nam's Economics Minister Pham Kim Ngoc has been telling newsmen: "Phase I of Vietnamization, the military phase, has been successful. Now we will enter on Phase II, which will concentrate on making Viet Nam self-reliant and stable." Last week, South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu launched that program with a crisp 40-minute speech to the Saigon legislature...
...Reporters routinely moonlight for as many as six papers of opposing political persuasions and cheerfully quote an old adage, which rhymes in Vietnamese: "A journalist is a man who tells lies to make money." Newspapers have existed in Viet Nam for more than a century, but Journalism Professor Nguyen Ngoc Phach characterizes their history as "one of constant struggle, few glories, small achievements and dubious causes...