Word: viens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...critics would write off up to three-quarters' of the overall South Vietnamese forces as effective military units. And the critics are by no means all West Pointers. "I wonder if we will ever be as good as the Koreans," Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Cao Van Vien recently said to a friend. Of the ARVN's notori ously bad 25th division in the Delta, Vien says: "It is the worst division in the army-and perhaps in any army...
...bottom," as Ky puts it. One proposal would disband the four corps commands and the ten divisions, with their tempting opportunities for warlord graft and corruption, and create more flexible units that would specialize in pacification efforts, counterguerrilla action, and search-and-destroy missions. With U.S. help, General Vien has launched several new training programs designed to help soldiers learn everything from setting guerrilla-style ambushes to assisting villagers in building pigpens...
Over beer and Cokes, the commanders of South Viet Nam's four Corps areas met at the quarters of Chief of Staff General Cao Van Vien. There they expressed their deep misgivings over the feud's effect on military unity. They decided to invite the two men to talk things over. In a heated and often an gry confrontation that ran on for nearly three days, the commanders urged Ky and Thieu to compose their differences or resign from office in favor of a caretaker government. Both refused...
...friends-or even to get ahead in the business world. "These days," says Dr. Jiro Minagawa, who heads Tokyo's plush Minagawa Cosmetic Clinic, "girls come in and go out much as they go to the beauty salon to have their hair done." Dr. Pham Ba Vien, dean of Saigon's practitioners of chirurgie esthétique, agrees. "Show a woman something different-a new style or a new face-and she wants it," he says. "And if she can afford it, she will...
What most Asian women want are operations to round out their eyes, build European-type bridges into their noses and, especially in Viet Nam, enlarge their breasts. ("Vietnamese girls have beautiful, classic faces," says Dr. Vien, "but remove their clothing, and they look like boys with long hair.") Like hairdos, however, the styles are constantly changing. A decade ago, most Oriental clients wanted to be remade in the image of American and European movie stars. Today, the accent has shifted to a combination of Caucasian and classic Asian beauty, with eyes less rounded, noses less bridged, breasts less protruding...