Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pronounced Lah-oze) is a faithfully Buddhist kingdom known as "the land of a million elephants," which five years ago was carved out of French Indo-China in the Geneva conference after Dienbienphu. It has Communists to the north of it (China), Communists to the east of it (North Viet Nam), and Communists inside it (the Pathet Lao). Only 18 months ago it seemed to be slipping inexorably toward Red rule. As the result of a queer, credulous armistice with its own Communist rebels, the Laotian government reserved two of its Cabinet posts for Communists and agreed to absorb...
...Premier Phoui Sananikone. 55, has reversed this tide. Publicly lining Laos up "on the side of the free world," Phoui (pronounced Pwee) cleansed his government of Communists and successfully "integrated" the army, i.e., interned one of the rebel units-a move that sent the other fleeing toward Communist North Viet Nam. He made it clear that he no longer wanted any part of the three-power (Poland, India, Canada) international control commission established by the 1954 Geneva agreement, for while the Canadians sat around frustrated, the Reds used the Poles to keep close tab on Laos. Things were going well...
...quiet evening in the sleepy little town of Bien Hoa 20 miles north of Saigon, base camp for the South Vietnamese crack 7th Infantry Division and its eight-man U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group. The presence of the Americans symbolized one of the main reasons why South Viet Nam, five years ago a new nation with little life expectancy, is still independent and free and getting stronger all the time-to the growing chagrin of Communists in neighboring North Viet Nam. Since the beginning of 1959,Communist infiltrators have stepped up their campaign of terrorism, assassinating an average...
...South Viet Nam, under President Ngo Dinh Diem, an ascetic Roman Catholic, four years ago closed down its opium dens, which had been legal throughout the years of French rule, and shut up some of the fanciest whorehouses in the Far East. So successful has the government been that there is only a small clandestine traffic in opium across its borders...
Last week, after 68 days' gadding about the world, from Stockholm to Hollywood, from anti-Communist Turkey to Communist Viet Nam, jovial President Sukarno flew back to his stricken land. Anticipating his arrival, army commanders converged on the capital, took rooms in the rambling red brick Hotel des Indes, discussed the situation far into the night. Strongly supporting their chief of staff, Lieut. General Abdul Haris Nasution, 40, the officers still seem eager to seek a workable partnership with Sukarno. Urging a return to the President's 1945 constitution and a further dose of "guided" democracy, they demanded...