Word: trang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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December 1970: The Saigon news paper Trang Den says Martine and her mother are impostors, and the real Martine is found hauling 110-lb. cement bags in a Saigon factory. A Paris paper quotes Tran Van Lam, Saigon's Minister of Foreign Affairs, as saying: "We haven't dared tell him yet, but there are at least 17 other candidates for the role of Martine Bokassa...
Local government tends toward the chaotic. Some cities, like Nha Trang and Bien Hoa, are actually only hodgepodge collections of sprawling villages, which lack overall central control; each of the villages is tightly run by a mayor who is directly appointed by province chiefs. Saigon is run by the national government, which has too many problems to give the capital the attention it needs. Whatever the system, the cities are plagued by the lack of trained career employees who could provide efficient administration...