Word: nhan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Otherwise, diplomats and news agencies were largely dependent on the self-serving communiques issued by Hanoi radio and the official Vietnamese party newspaper Nhan Dan, on the one hand, and the official Chinese news agency, Hsinhua, on the other. Hsinhua was particularly par simonious, limiting itself mostly to unenlightening announcements that "fighting was continuing." Consequently, most information and judgments came from other Asian capitals far from the front and from Washington, which provided bird's-eye data gleaned by reconnaissance satellites...
...willing to trade consumer goods such as electric fans for rice, hoping to induce peasants to sell their crops to the government instead of on the black market. When the government failed to deliver the promised consumer goods, disappointed farmers began producing less. The Vietnamese party newspaper Nhan Dan has complained that many peasants leave paddyfields uncultivated or use rice to distill alcohol or feed pigs...
...abolition last year of "bourgeois trade" and the introduction of a uniform currency throughout the country. Southern industry is currently running at 40% of capacity. About one-fifth of the 3 million residents of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) are unemployed. Conceding widespread mismanagement of industry and agriculture, Nhan Dan explained: "In the long struggles against imperialism, we became well versed in political and armed struggles and skilled in organizing major battles. But we are still unfamiliar with the organization of large-scale production and business...
...economy is collapsing. Exports have dropped sharply, and food production is way down; last year the grain crop was a record 4.3 million tons below what was needed to feed Viet Nam's 51 million people. Unemployment is so serious that even the Hanoi daily Nhan Dan publicly laments that "hundreds of thousands of people remain jobless...
...trumpeted North Viet Nam's official daily, Nhan Dan, "a festival of the completion of national reunification." In Hanoi and Saigon, as well as scores of other cities, towns and hamlets in between, streets and squares were festooned with banners and painted maps that showed North and South with all demarcation lines removed-and Hanoi prominently marked as the capital. Called out by Communist ward bosses-and, in Saigon, by the pealing bells of the city's churches-some 11 million Vietnamese trooped to the polls clutching pink voter-registration cards to elect the new, 492-member National...