Word: phan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he could, Bidault stood off the cocky Communists with the only weapon left to him-native wit. When Tep Phan, Foreign Minister of Cambodia, denounced the Viet Minh invasion of his country and produced a telegram reporting the murder of three Cambodians by Viet Minh rebels, Molotov was scathing. "We have heard about this telegram, but we haven't seen it," he declared scornfully. The Cambodian minister waved the telegram aloft. "Now we have seen it, but we still haven't read it," snapped Molotov, to the laughter of the Communist delegations...
...Mohammed and his birthplace owe a lot to each other. In his day - the 7th Century A.D. - Mecca was the main transfer point between southern Arabia and Syria. Mohammed, an or phan member of a major Meccan clan, entered the city's chief industry, cross-desert transport, and did well. He married his boss, Khadija, a widow some years older than he. He was devoted to her as long as she lived, and she was his first convert when he began going out into the desert and coming back with strange ideas about religion. The caravans to Mecca brought...
Three years ago Nguyen's business deals had the Communists so angry that Saigon was no longer safe for Nguyen. The French suggested that he transfer his base of operations to Paris. Nguyen settled with his wife and his 20-year-old niece, Ly Phan Van Tey, in a pleasant house in the suburb of Le Perreux...