Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sure measure of the critical condition (and of the value of the President's proposal) was that the Communists, from Moscow to Peking, were reacting against Eisenhower with a fury unheard since their last hoped-for conquests (Formosa, South Viet Nam) slipped from their hands. Another measure was that the British, too long preoccupied with attacks on U.S. policy, were rallying around the point that the President's plan for the Middle East is a real contribution to world stability. "Everybody in Britain who is not lost in imperialist nostalgia or neutralist daydreams," keynoted London's middle...
When slim Filipino Nurse Pet Duruin arrived in Viet Nam, the first Vietnamese words she learned were: "Mot ngay ba vien," meaning "one tablet three times a day." Nurse Duruin repeated this phrase as often as 200 times a day as she passed out quinine and sulfa pills from her own thin, bronzed hand to the equally bronzed but thinner hands of the wretched refugees streaming in from the Communist north. For this was October 1954, following the invasion debacle that ended with the surrender of Dienbienphu to the Reds...
...flood of refugees reached its crest, and southern Viet Nam doctors were hopelessly swamped, the Vietnamese Junior Chamber of Commerce appealed to its corresponding chapters in other lands for medical help. First to arrive were six doctors and three nurses from the Philippines, financed by contributions from schoolchildren. As "Operation Brotherhood" got rolling, in came three French nurses, four Japanese, 19 Nationalist Chinese, three Thais, five Malayans, two U.S. secretaries, and some 200 Filipino doctors, nurses, dentists, nutritionists, social workers. Aged 18 to 60,they manned 14 medical centers, traveled through the Mekong delta by canoe and sampan, by army...
...years, the medical commandos trained 200 Vietnamese nurses to carry on their work; last week they left Viet Nam. But for many of them, only a short vacation was ahead. Next stop: Viet Nam's neighbor, Laos, where five centers will be set up 100 miles apart, in the jungles stretching to the unmapped Yunnan border. For Laos, too, is underdoctored, and threatened with a repetition of Viet Nam's medical crisis...
Encouraged by the Nationalist Chinese legation, Viet Nam's race-proud Chinese almost to a man ignored the naturalization order and launched a campaign of economic retaliation. Rice exports, one of South Viet Nam's chief sources of foreign exchange, dwindled to nothing, and to the dismay of Viet Nam's farmers, the domestic price of rice fell to its lowest level in years. Large-scale shipments of Chinese capital to Hong Kong sent the price of gold and black-market dollars soaring in Viet Nam. But stubborn Ngo Dinh Diem had no intention of backing down...