Word: tho
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Politics & Pay. Since 750 workers first walked off a Saigon project in mid-April, RMK-BRJ has been hit with strikes at ten of its 72 big building sites from Can Tho to Danang. At one time or another, about 12,000 of its 40,000 Vietnamese workers have put down their tools, often with reasonable gripes about wages and working conditions. Lately, though, the Viet Cong have been moving in. In Saigon last month, suspected V.C. agitators puffed a minor dispute into a walkout of 1,600 workers, virtually halted work on vital port facilities for nine days...
...checked Caumartin and pronounced him fit, Sulfridge himself caught the volunteer spirit. Both doctors flew out last month, Caumartin to read X rays and teach radiological techniques in Saigon, while Sulfridge went to the 70-year-old complex of decaying buildings that makes up the hospital at Can Tho, 80 miles southwest of the capital, in the steaming Mekong Delta...
...success, Premier Nguyen Cao Ky seemed to be in a freer and firmer state of mind about the political picture. Clad in a canary-yellow flight suit and sipping Jim Beam bourbon from a paper cup, he held an impromptu press conference at the Mekong Delta town of Can Tho. Ky said it would be at least a year before the new civilian government demanded by the Buddhists could be legally elected-and added that he expected to remain in power for that period. "Elections for a constituent assembly will be held as scheduled, some time in September," Ky explained...
...tho' I like the Lover quit the Love...
...Viet Cong grenade, capable of spraying inch-long wire chunks in every direction at about 4,800 ft. per second. The problem began one night last week when Chin felt the call of nature. Soon after he stepped outside his hut near the village of My Tho, south of Saigon, a grenade launcher roared and sent its missile into his back from a distance that must have been less than 12 yds. The Viet Cong's 40-mm. grenades need to travel that far before exploding...