Word: nguyens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Agriculture is the "first priority in the economy" of Vietnam, Nguyen Van Hieu, director of the Institute of Physics in Hanoi, told a group of 40 at Jefferson Hall yesterday...
Recently, Plaquemines has had a new minority to deal with. An old wooden shrimp boat, billowing black smoke, pulls into an isolated bayou near the mouth of the river. Laughingly pushing his cousin aside, Phuoc Nguyen, 11, grabs the tie line and loops two half hitches around a stake on the bank. Phuoc, who has picked up English in the three years he has been in the U.S., translates for his uncle as a white-haired mechanic explains the problem with the carburetor. "How much we owe you?" asks the boy. The mechanic shakes his head, refusing payment. Like many...
When he was Director General of Taxation in South Viet Nam from 1973 to 1974, refunds were far from Nguyen Huy Han's mind. He boasts that he increased revenues threefold by persuasion and strict enforcement of the laws...
...books include: Vietnam: The Origins of Revolution, by John T. McAlister; Before the Revolution, by Ngo Vinh Long '64; War Comes to Long An, by Jeffrey Race '65; Hell in a Very Small Place, by Bernard Fall; and the selected writings of president Ho Chi Minh and general Vo Nguyen Giap...
...case, was overshadowed last week by a diplomatic road show: a 20-man delegation led by smiling Foreign Minister Nguyen Buy Trinh has been visiting in Laos, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. In the ASEAN capitals, Trinh called for "a new period for the development of relations, friendship, good neighborliness and long-term cooperation." Hanoi's game plan appeared to be twofold: to explain and justify its invasion of Cambodia and, in long-range terms, to loosen its bond to Moscow. The Vietnamese appreciate Soviet assistance, but they do not want a bear hug. Thus in the ASEAN capitals...