Word: thuy
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...Cuckoos. The poem, based on a 16th century Chinese novel, is romantic, melodramatic and at times mildly erotic. Westerners will detect elements of The Perils of Pauline and The Story of O. The 3,525-line poem recounts 15 hellish years in the life of a young girl, Vuong Thuy Kieu. She is beautiful, talented, virtuous-and just headstrong enough to make her interesting in spite of her other sterling qualities. To help pay her family's debts, Kieu sells herself into concubinage and is tricked into becoming a common whore in the house of a ruthless madam. Thereafter...
...from my letter to Lodge of August 4, the North Vietnamese delegate, Xuan Thuy, responded to Lodge's challenge by modifying his country's insistence that it had the right to select participants in a coalition and to establish the policies of the new government in the South...
...speech of July 31, Ambassador Thuy said that the N.L.F. and the Provisional Revolutionary Government "only insist on the formation of a provisional coalition government including all political forces representing various strata in the population. This provisional coalition government shall organize and control the free general elections so as to form an official coalition government...
There appear to be two main differences between point five and Ambassador Thuy's July 31 statement: (1) the July 31 statement doesn't specify that only those who stand for what the N.L.F. calls (in the May 8 speech) peace, independence and neutrality may participate in the provisional coalition, and (2) the July 31 statement specifies that the result of the elections would be a coalition government and does not stipulate, as the May 8 statement does, exactly what this government would or would not stand...
...South Vietnamese are of goodwill, Ambassador Xuan Thuy told The New York Times, "we can settle immediately, but without goodwill, we can do nothing." His words bring to mind the "Eagle and the Fox" by the ancient Greek slave Aesop. The eagle had pledged to be friends with the fox. But one day, while it was away hunting, the eagle abducted the fox's cubs to feed to her hungry eaglets. The fox was unable to take revenge until a burning entrail, which the eagle had brought home from a sacrificial altar, set her nest on fire. As the eaglets...