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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Health Commandos | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

...Whose debates with Viet Nam Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dinh are known to Western newsmen as Dinh-Dong battles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: The Price of Crumbs | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

...Paris, Ho (then known as Nguyen Ai Quoc) became a photographer's assistant, wrote anti-imperialist articles. He also joined the French Communist Party. He was sent to Moscow for training, became a Comintern functionary, re-emerged in 1925 at Canton, where he helped Russian Agent Borodin in Communism's first attempt to seize China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: The New Frontier | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...unassuming young Indo-Chinese student from the Left Bank named Vo Van Tu Quoc began dropping in to chat with Nguyen. The student professed to be a follower of Emperor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Nine O'Clock News | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...lady reporters. He had started his underground political career 35 years ago at 19, when his radical father was imprisoned by an unsympathetic Viet Nam emperor. He ran off to sea, went to France at the end of World War I and under the alias of Nguyen-Ai-Quoc ( One Who Loves His Country"), became a Socialist, and later a Communist. Then he went to Moscow, where, under the alias of Song Man-tcho ("Mr. Song of Boundless Generosity") he became a Soviet citizen, and attended a training school for Communist agitators. Seven years later, he went to China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIET NAM: Who Is Ho? | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

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