Word: pham
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...house owned by Vo Van Mau, a deputy in the National Assembly, who is loyal to Thieu's regime. When police searched another of Mau's properties, they found vials that bore traces of heroin-about which Mau claimed to know nothing. A week later, Pham Chi Thien, another pro-administration deputy, was caught red-handed smuggling 8.78 lbs. of heroin from Laos, and now awaits trial. Thien's comely, 20-year-old travelmate slipped by airport police, but was arrested a few days later as she entered one of Saigon's main heroin "drops...
...China, he said, are "the front line" and "the rear area" of the war. The two countries are as closely linked as "lips and teeth." Should the U.S. "go down the road of expanding its war of aggression," declared a communique signed by Chou and Hanoi's Premier Pham Van Dong, the Chinese people would "take all necessary measures, not flinching even from the greatest national sacrifices," to help the North Vietnamese. Translation, according to most interpretations: China will probably not intervene unless North Viet Nam is invaded or seriously threatened, or the fighting in Laos approaches China...
...Nghi, forward command post of the South Vietnamese 1st Corps and 1st Infantry Division near the Laotian border, Brig. Gen. Pham Van Phu, division commander, said the entire 1st Regiment of his outfit had been pulled out of operation and returned to Vietnam...
...considering sending commandos into North Vietnam to murder North Vietnamese leaders whom he has pronounced guilty of mistreating American POWs. And if the Son Tay raid was a rotten rescue mission, it was certainly a fine dress rehearsal for an attack by helicopter-borne suicide-squads intent on assassinating Pham Van Dong or Vo Nguyen Giap...
...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...