Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...silken women of the East, few have been more diligently trained in eye-fluttering subservience than the reed-slim Tonkinese and Annamese maidens of South Viet Nam. But when President Ngo Dinh Diem proclaimed his nation's independence two years ago, his newly enfranchised countrywomen began to remold their personalities under the leadership of the President's keenly intelligent sister-in-law, beauteous, sloe-eyed Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu. With the help of her enormous charm and an occasional whisk of a sandalwood fan, Madame Ngo got herself elected to South Viet Nam's National Assembly, helped...
...Communists he had permitted to flourish so freely, Sihanouk told the convention, "are going to cut my throat." With a nod in the direction of both Red China and Communist North Viet Nam, he declared: "If the moment comes when we must die or be taken over by the Communists, we will accept inevitable death with the conviction that we have not betrayed our country." It was his most forthright anti-Communist speech to date. Sihanouk added: "Many countries have not believed in the mortal danger of Communism, and then, when the evidence became clear to them...
...many, but not too many, songs-Schubert's Serenade in Manila, Mon Coeur S'ouvre a Ta Voix from Samson and Delilah in Bombay, Schubert's Ave Maria in many places-and some long, too long, interviews in between. She went to an old church in Viet Nam to sing Let My People Go, to a meditation temple in Rangoon to talk religion with a Buddhist scholar, to Gandhi's shrine in New Delhi to pray and deliver-a little shakily-Lead, Kindly Light. Only once, before Burma's Premier, did modest Marian Anderson show...
...rimland of non-Communist Asia. Flushed with victory. Mao Tse-tung in Peking and Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi boasted that the rest of Indo-China was theirs for the asking, and looked past Indo-China to Malaya, Thailand and Burma. But last week, almost three years since North Viet Nam was formally surrendered to Communism, the heady Communist visions had not materialized...
...South Viet Nam. Dynamic President Diem has created a stable regime, emerged as one of the East's strongest statesmen. Though Saigon's recent bombings show that Communists can still break the peace, Diem has the threat to internal security under control. With an annual per capita income of $144, Viet Nam trails only Japan, Malaya and the Philippines in the area. Diem has built 1,000 miles of roads, reclaimed thousands of acres of rice land, and opened two universities and a technical school this year. U.S. aid ($250 million this year) keeps his army...