Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arches, agreed to extend $4,000,000 (in yen) in economic aid over a three-year period. In the crumbling Laotian capital of Vientiane, sarong-clad beauties pressed bouquets on Kishi, and Laotian government officials welcomed his offer of $4,000,000 in aid and technical assistance. In South Viet Nam's capital of Saigon, Kishi's reception was formal and cool. Saigon's politicians were miffed because 1) they hoped that Kishi would offer $150 million in reparations and help build a major dam for them, and he said not a word about it; 2) President...
...Phongsaly to see if he could get another. The rest of Laos' ministers, all now technically royal and loyal, went nightclubbing. Communist broadcasters in Hanoi, Peking and Moscow were jubilant. "The agreement," said Radio Hanoi, "would serve as a model for the reunification of North and South Viet...
Kickback: 20%. The trouble can be traced to the days in 1955 when Communist armies of the Viet Minh hovered on Laos' borders after the French debacle at Dienbienphu. With the French withdrawing financial support, the urgent necessity was to keep the 25,000-man Laotian army in the field. In a hastily drawn agreement, the U.S. committed itself to exchange dollars for Laotian kip at the rate...
...anti-American manifestations seemed designed mainly to embarrass President Ngo Dinh Diem's anti-Communist Viet Nam government, one source said...
Vietnamese intellectuals are aware that Confucianism's extreme reverence for the past helped delay the modernization of Asia until it was disastrously late, but Viet Nam's Confucian revivalists are not worried. The government has issued a Confucian handbook, and officials hold biweekly staff meetings at which government employees are drilled in the master's tenets. The Van-mieu "temple of literature"-with its array of tablets containing the life stories of Confucius and other sages-will be rebuilt in Saigon (the original is in now-Communist Hanoi). A' highbrow Confucian monthly will continue to expound...