Word: sampan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Operation Brotherhood" got rolling, in came three French nurses, four Japanese, 19 Nationalist Chinese, three Thais, five Malayans, two U.S. secretaries, and some 200 Filipino doctors, nurses, dentists, nutritionists, social workers. Aged 18 to 60,they manned 14 medical centers, traveled through the Mekong delta by canoe and sampan, by army truck over the rugged roads of the Annam border country...
...most part, Operation Brotherhood concentrated on the estimated million refugees, many of whom arrived with mutilated limbs and filthy, blood-caked wounds. Some reached the aid stations by sampan, some by oxcart; others were carried on relatives' shoulders or in a hammock slung from a bamboo pole. Accustomed to no more sophisticated medical treatments than massage, bamboo cupping or tiger balm, they were reluctant to wash the dirt off a wound. Some had shaved their heads, refused to bathe, or relied on other traditional "remedies." But all wanted the reputedly powerful medicines from the West. Said a Thai nurse...
Wise Fish. Ever since then, sometimes in fleets of three or four, sometimes in a single junk, sometimes trusting their lives to a flimsy sampan across 30 or 40 miles of open sea, other Chinese fishermen have followed the original 1,600 to Hong Kong. Some were caught on the way and either executed or sent to Red labor camps. For all of the estimated 4,000, the hoped-for joys of freedom proved elusive. Those who had managed to smuggle out their own fishing gear found it antiquated and almost useless in waters where the local fishermen...
...Khoi's murder, the village of Co Bi remained under Communist control, making it impossible for members of the Roman Catholic Ngo family to find their relative's body. When at last the Reds were driven out, the local peasants were too afraid to talk. One ancient sampan man confessed that he had heard the shots and described the area where the murder had taken place. He promptly disappeared. An old ex-Communist surrendered to Diem's forces and admitted his son had taken part in the kidnaping, but the son had fled to the north with...
Begging for Jobs. Between April and last month, 500,000 peasants were sent back to their villages. In one month, 35,000 pedicab and rickshaw men "volunteered" to migrate to northern Kiangsu; in one day 4,000 sampan dwellers left for inland cities. The government press reported proudly that 80% of the city's university students and flocks of physicians were begging for frontier jobs...