Word: nguyen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Obsession. The Communists have so far not tried to impose Chinese people's communes on North Viet Nam. But less than 20% of the peasants have joined government-sponsored cooperatives, and the party magazine, Nguyen Dam, berates the farmers' "obsession to produce individually." Despite a Soviet loan of 100 million rubles. North Viet Nam's three-year plan (1958-60) is lagging...
...lustrous black hair, the bride-to-be sat among the wedding guests blinking back her tears. She had already protested that she did not want to marry the wealthy but middle-aged landowner chosen by her father, that her true love was a penniless farm boy named Nguyen Van Sa. While the guests downed the food and wine, Co Ha watched and waited from the traditionally isolated bride's chair at the end of the table. When the men began to nod with drink, Co Ha knew her moment had come...
...make an impression on the delegates to the annual meeting of the 21-nation Colombo Plan, the British-fostered scheme designed to help the backward nations of Southeast Asia. New paint gleamed everywhere. Old buildings and the sidewalks before them were scrubbed as clean as any in Amsterdam. Mayor Nguyen Phu Hai had sternly forbidden his citizens to spit in public or walk even partially naked in the streets. Energetic President Ngo Dinh Diem's capital had come a long way from the fear and misery of the days when every sidewalk café was guarded by heavy wire...
...easy. Freed landlords went back to their villages, threw the squatters off their old property, beat up those who had denounced them. Sometimes the new owners cut down fruit trees, stripped the houses, killed the cows and buffaloes and ate them rather than give them back. Warned Nguyen Manh Tuong, dean of the Hanoi Law School: "The movement of revenge is widespread all over the country, and is pushing us back to the dark ages of prehistoric barbarism...
Vice President Nguyen Ngoc Tho insisted: "This is an internal affair." Saigon's lively, neon-lighted Chinese city of Cholon was plunged into deep gloom. Grocers closed their doors, sat in front of their shops reading newspapers. Depressed by the slump in business, the queen of Cholon's call girls took an overdose of sleeping pills as the shortest route to the shades of her ancestors, was escorted to her grave in a red teak coffin by a weeping procession of old customers...