Word: van
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DONALD VAN LIERE Kalamazoo, Mich...
Only a strategy aimed at maintaining appearances can explain the recent "second Tet" attack on Saigon. Two weeks before it started, the highest ranking defector to come over to the allied side, Lieut. Colonel Tran Van Dae, brought with him the complete battle plan. Nonetheless, the Communists attacked, launching 26 battalions toward the city, more than twice as many as employed during Tet. With the allies waiting, it was a lemming-like march to almost certain destruction. Not a major unit got inside Saigon proper. Many of the attackers were so youthful and green and recently infiltrated that they...
...endows the office of Premier with wide responsibilities-and potential power-in the day-to-day administration of the country on behalf of the President. In the constant clash-and-compromise bargaining between South Viet Nam's two top men, Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky persuaded President Nguyen Van Thieu to accept as the country's first Premier a Saigon lawyer and Ky confederate with no political experience, Nguyen Van Loc. Ever since Tet, Saigon has rumbled with rumors that Thieu was going to replace Loc, who had proved a less-than-efficient administrator in the wake...
Addressing the nation on television and radio, dressed in an open-necked set of fatigues without insignia, Thieu named as new Premier Tran Van Huong, 64, one of the most popular and respected civilian politicians in South Viet Nam. A grey-haired schoolteacher renowned for his rigid honesty, Huong was twice mayor of Saigon and briefly Premier in 1964-65. He ran for President of the new civilian government last fall, and finished fourth-but handily carried the city of Saigon...
...dimethoxyphenethylamine (DMPEA), more simply known as "the pink spot" because of its color in paper chromatography tests designed to detect it. DMPEA has been found in the urine of several thousand severely ill schizophrenics. It was isolated six years ago by Psychiatrist Arnold Friedhoff and Biochemist Elnora Van Winkle of the New York University School of Medicine, and studied further in additional tests in England and Rumania...