Word: opium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made friends with the tough Cao Dai warlords and worked for several months in Red-held areas, where the commonest complaint was a bullet in the belly. Occasionally they met half-naked hill tribesmen armed with bow and arrow. They worked in Saigon's shantytowns among prostitutes and opium smokers, went among the leprosy patients at Phu Quoc, where doctors and nurses had no modern medicines...
...first time a Communist regime and the Roman Catholic Church formally agreed to work positively together. The regime was the new national Communist government of Poland, which last week threw over Marx ("Religion is the opium of the people") and promised to remove all barriers to "the realization of the principles of full freedom of religious life" in the country. In return, the Polish Catholic hierarchy pledged "support for all the works of the people's Poland to bring together the efforts of all citizens for the welfare of the entire country...
Change of Heart. Saigon has changed in other ways too. It no longer reeks of opium smoking. Gambling has practically disappeared. But Saigon's most remarkable change, say old Indo-China hands, is the change in Vietnamese-French relations. In Viet Nam's first months of independence, the French openly connived against Diem's government and the Vietnamese openly showed their dislike of the "dirty colonialists." The Vietnamese worried about the 180,000 French troops still in their midst, the French worried about an uprising against the Europeans once the troops left...
...Opium of the Masses. Jawaharlal Nehru, however, is far more than just a political boss. In the Indian mystique he is a national symbol, almost the embodiment of India, and he receives from his countrymen probably more unbounded and unabashed hero worship than any other national leader in the world...
...darshan, the spiritual impact of being in the presence of a great personality. When the speech is over, the crowd cheers, and amidst the applause Nehru bounds down from the platform, smiling at everyone, his irritability gone. "Nehru," says one American familiar with these spectacles, "is the opium of the Indian masses-and they...