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...power for a while, Saigon's powerful hoodlum sect, the Binh Xuyen, agreed meekly last week to abandon its golden empire of sin, at least for the time being. "We ourselves propose the suppression of gambling dens," proclaimed the Binh Xuyen's General Le Van Vien to an astonished populace. "If we did run gambling in the past, it was only because we wanted to give the newly born state of Viet Nam an indispensable complement of money in taxes for its budget . . . Now we conceive the urgent necessity of a complete disinfection of the regime from...
Wealthy old General Vien, who runs Le Grand Monde (as well as various hotels, lumber mills and fisheries) docilely offered several thousand of his uniformed bully boys as recruits for the Vietnamese National Army; General Vien himself retired to the quiet family life he leads with his two wives, twelve children, screeching monkeys, a leopard, a tiger and some pet crocodiles. Wife No. 1 got in step with the new morality by starting a campaign against striptease, immoral books and dirty movies...
Many Guns. Emperor Bao Dai had dipped a negligent finger into the troubled waters, sent orders to Diem from his comfortable villa in Cannes to take three bit ter rivals into his Cabinet. One was General Le Van Vien, whose principal qualification for office was that he headed the Binh Xuyen, a "religious" sect which controls the city's police and also Saigon's gambling (last spring Bao Dai gave him control of the national "surete," too). Another was General Nguyen Van Xuan. who had been Premier of Viet Nam in 1946. The third was General Nguyen...
...service man and resent such implications, and if your editorial is the general opinion of what the men at Harvard think of the Legion. . . I want nothing to do with Harvard. But I know that the real patriotic men of Harvard do not hold your vien. You probably were not old enough to have seen service in France but from your editorial I doubt if you would have offered your service to the cause. A. L. Haucock, Council Bluffs, lowa...
Madame Marie Sundelius, soprano, will be the soloist; the following program will be rendered. Symphony in C minor, No. 5, Op. 67, Beethoven Overture to the Opera, "The Barber of Bagdad," Cornelius Recitative, "E Susanna non vien?" and Aria, "Dove Sono," from "Le Nozze di Figaro," (Act III, Scene 8), Mozart "L'Apprenti Sorcier" ("The Sorcerer's Apprentice"): Scherzo (after a Ballad by Goethe). Dukas Aria, "Je dis que rien ne m'eponvante," from "Carmen", Bizet Caprice on Spanish Themes, Op. 34, Rimsky-Korsakoff