Word: tyro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...owned business ventures. They have also provoked « enough protest, both, from soldiers and | from competing private entrepreneurs, -that the South Viet Nam government last month began a high-level investigation. Last week, under pressure from the U.S. embassy, the government dismissed five Defense Ministry officials and ordered the tyro tycoons to turn over their operations to the government-owned Viet Nam Commercial Bank, claiming that it is illegal for the army to run private businesses. Now the bank is supposed to return to the soldiers all the funds that had been collected from them...