Word: ngoc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...duty Air Vietnam stewardess, Mrs. Nguyen Ngoc Quy expected to be waved through customs as usual when she stepped off her flight from Bangkok last month at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport. Instead, officials opened her baggage, revealing 19.8 lbs. of heroin and an ugly new quirk in American-South Vietnamese relations...
...director of the Vietnamese press center, Nguyen Ngoc Huyen, has now told Luce that his press card will not be renewed. Huyen admitted to other correspondents that the reason was the tiger-cage story. The pro-government Saigon Post, an English-language newspaper, cheered: "The mills of the gods have finally caught up with Don Luce. This man was more dangerous to Viet Nam than a Stokely Carmichael. So we must kick him out, and any others like...
...American embassy dinner in Saigon recently, Presidential Aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman dished out a few unappetizing warnings to South Viet Nam's Economics Minister Pham Kim Ngoc. Unless something was done about Saigon's faltering economy, Nixon's men said, an unhappy U.S. Congress might sharply curtail American aid. Congress has reason to be concerned. Unchecked inflation has reduced purchasing power in South Viet Nam by 93% in the past 21 months. The trade deficit, thanks to American import subsidies, has risen to $685 million. The piaster, officially valued at 118 to the dollar, draws...
...TIME includes my name among U.S. sources who supposedly have stated that Tran Ngoc Chau reported meetings with his Communist brother "not only to other Vietnamese officials but also to the CIA" [March 9]. If you had checked with me first, I would have told you truthfully that I had no knowledge of Chau's meetings with his brother or of what he did about telling anyone of such meetings...
Last week Thieu and Minister of the Economy Pham Kim Ngoc suffered a major defeat in their austerity campaign. In late February, Ngoc eliminated the favored tax status of imported newsprint. His order was designed to 1) stimulate production of newsprint, one of the few industries in the South capable of immediate expansion; 2) reduce imports; and 3) prevent publishers from buying more newsprint than they need, then selling it at a 300% markup on the black market. Fighting back, the publishers began organizing a general strike. At the last minute, Thieu reinstated the publishers' privilege. Said one Cabinet...