Word: viet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME'S first gatefold cover picture, it symbolizes not only the spirit of the season, along with Christmas cards and Santa's sleigh bells, but also a growing resurgence of religion and worship wherever men gather at Christmastide, be it in Bethlehem or Bogotá, North Viet Nam or North Hollywood, Calif...
...crisis is one that has been faced before by the Overseas Chinese, an unassimilated group that has lived for centuries among alien peoples. As early as 300 B.C., Chinese merchants in clumsy junks coasted along the shores of Viet Nam. When European adventurers and explorers first made their hesitant way into Southeast Asia, they found, as Britain's Sir Thomas Herbert wrote in 1634, that in every major seaport were the "infinitely industrious Chyneses...
...chiao are often a headache not only to the countries they live in but to the rulers of Nationalist and Red China as well. Formosa, needing friends in the Far East, has friendly feelings for countries that continue to recognize it, such as the Philippines, Thailand and South Viet Nam, and it dares not recklessly rush to the support of the Overseas Chinese in every local squabble. Last week Formosa was engaged in a long, embittering dispute with Manila about the disposition of 2,700 Chinese who have overstayed their visas in the Philippines...
...special U.N. subcommittee had reported that it could find no positive proof of actual aggression from Communist North Viet Nam (TIME, Nov. 16), and Russia crowed that Laos' charges had collapsed "like a card castle." At this point, Hammarskjold quietly announced that he himself would fly to get "independent and full knowledge" of what was going on in Laos and though the Russians bluntly declared that Hammarskjold's trip would only "further complicate the situation," he went...
Though in quick headline-reading terms the conclusion was disappointing to Laos and the West, the circumstantial evidence cited in the body of the U.N. report left little doubt where the blame lay in Laos. The committee examined captured North Viet Nam uniforms, rifles made in China and Czechoslovakia, hand grenades and medical supplies bearing Chinese lettering. Laotian witnesses testified that troops attacking them were identifiable as North Vietnamese not only by their green uniforms but by their language ("Mau! Mau!"-Quick! Quick!) and even by the common rice they ate (Laotians eat glutinous rice). Ten captured Pathet Lao rebels...