Word: trans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Major General Tran Van Don, chief of the general staff and technically in charge of administering the country under martial law. Actually he commands only a bodyguard of 50 troops, and at the moment is considered a figurehead...
...TRAN VAN CHUONG Former Ambassador...
...special forces that sacked the pagodas; regular army troops were only called in after the job was done to help keep order. Theoretically, under the martial law proclamation, it is now the army that runs the country, and, again theoretically, Diem placed top authority in Major General Tran Van Don, 46, a highly respected, onetime corps commander who has had great military success against the Viet Cong. But Don may merely be a figurehead. Hostile to the government, he was pulled out of his field command last December and kicked upstairs to a staff job, where he would have...
...Washington, the South Vietnamese embassy formally repudiated Mme. Nhu's statement as representing only her views and not that of the government. The disclaimer was particularly intriguing, because the ambassador, Tran Van Chuong, is Mme. Nhu's father, who violently disapproves of her ?and only partly because the government expropriated his vast property seven years ago. She in turn disapproves of him, once called him a coward...
Beautiful Spring. She was born "about 38" years ago into one of the wealthiest, most aristocratic landowning families in Viet Nam. Her maiden name was Tran Le Xuan, which means Beautiful Spring, and at her family's home in Hanoi she was waited on by 20 servants. Tutored at home, she never finished high school, took ballet lessons, once danced a solo at Hanoi's National Theater. She learned to speak French fluently, today mostly converses in that language, writes all her speeches in French before having them translated into Vietnamese...