Word: nguyens
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...battle-dress emerged from the jungle-covered mountain which overlooks the Cap and marched up to the lighted dining hall in columns of two. They were armed with regulation grenades and Sten guns and carried machetes. The first grenade, thrown from the kitchen, killed Bartender Tuyen instantly. Vietnamese Cook Nguyen Van Loc played dead, but a green-clad soldier poured boiling water on him, and when he squirmed, shot him. In the hallway other green-clad soldiers shot down the Perrin children, caught little Michel running away, hacked him to death with machetes. They hurled grenades and emptied Sten guns...
...killers were Communists. Wearing stolen uniforms, they were carrying out orders issued by the Central Committee of the South Viet Nam Communist Party from its secret headquarters in the swamps. The order: indiscriminate terrorism. The Communists' aim: to frighten people from supporting the new Nguyen Van Tarn government. In the eight weeks since the government was formed, they have committed 67 murders, 87 attempted murders, and nine kidnapings. But no outrage yet matched that at the Cap St. Jacques. When French soldiers reached the dining room, they found eight officers, six children, two women and four Vietnamese servants dead...
...face of an Oriental John Garfield walked into butter-colored Gia-Long Palace in Saigon one morning last week and handed to Premier Tran Van Huu a letter bearing the imperial seal of Bao Dai. The letter bluntly deposed Huu and named the bearer, 57-year-old Nguyen Van Tarn, as new Premier of embattled Indo-China...
...stronger man, and the Emperor had constitutional power to make the change. The new man is no stooge of the French, but believes that first things come first. Within hours of his accession, the new Premier announced his policy: "Je fais la guerre [I make war]," said Nguyen Van Tarn. Few who knew him doubted that he would...
...Communist insurrection in October 1930, during a second Red uprising in 1940, and for the last two years as boss of Viet Nam's busy, overworked security police. Two of his three sons were killed by Ho Chi Minh's Reds; the third, Brigadier General Nguyen Van Hinh, a crack pilot, commands the new Vietnamese national army now fighting shoulder to shoulder with the French. Tarn himself is under a standing Viet Minh sentence of death...