Word: vinhlong
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Stuffed Heads. Because of his distrust of other people, Diem rules largely through his family. One brother controls central Viet Nam; another is Ambassador to London; a third is the Roman Catholic Bishop of Vinhlong. Diem's closest adviser is a fourth brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, whose pretty wife is a member of the National Assembly and the country's leading feminist. Nhu, intellectual, articulate, smooth, has all the qualities Diem lacks. Though he holds no government position, Nhu works in a soundproof palace office, surrounded by books and stuffed animal heads. Diem takes Brother...
...Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem's hard-trying but still disorganized South Viet Nam government. Diem's power probably does not extend as far as 30 kilometers from Saigon itself, say some knowledgeable foreign observers, and in many instances not that far. At Mytho, at Baclieu, at Vinhlong and numberless other towns and villages in the south, Viet Minh control is complete and recognized-the presence of nominal officials of the Vietnamese government notwithstanding...
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