Word: tarn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French-Vietnamese side: effectives total 248,000, including 18,000 in the navy and air force, and 180,000 in the native Vietnamese army commanded by General Nguyen Van Hinh, combat-pilot son of Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Van Tarn. The bulk of non-native forces is composed of 52.000 Frenchmen, plus Senegalese, North Africans and Foreign Legionnaires. The French Union troops have suffered 147,000 casualties, including 60,000 killed or dead of wounds (5,000 more casualties and 35,000 more combat dead than the U.S. lost in three years of Korea). Almost...
...winners were strongly anti-French nationalists; the biggest vote went to a candidate who had spent six years in a French political internment camp on Madagascar. "Even in my dreams I didn't expect such popular success," said Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Van Tarn...
...will leave me alone"), Mangrum travels 40,000 miles a year by car, another 40,000 by air in pursuit of the tournament dollar. Money-Player Mangrum's biggest kick: the $22,500 he won in two weeks in 1948 at the "world championship" at Chicago's Tarn O'Shanter, his home course...
...killers were Communists. Wearing stolen uniforms, they were carrying out orders issued by the Central Committee of the South Viet Nam Communist Party from its secret headquarters in the swamps. The order: indiscriminate terrorism. The Communists' aim: to frighten people from supporting the new Nguyen Van Tarn government. In the eight weeks since the government was formed, they have committed 67 murders, 87 attempted murders, and nine kidnapings. But no outrage yet matched that at the Cap St. Jacques. When French soldiers reached the dining room, they found eight officers, six children, two women and four Vietnamese servants dead...
...Tarn has been ambushed eleven times by Red guerrillas, and escaped with nothing more than a cut finger. In his spare time he hunts tigers by night, writes poetry by day. He is tough with opposition, but he favors a more representative Viet Nam cabinet, and grants of land to Indo-Chinese who fight against the Reds...