The word 'viet' is not correct in written English.
The word you are most likely looking for is 'vetted', meaning checked and approved. For example, "The new employees were fully vetted before they were hired."
But the bigger reason, in Cassandra's view, is that Ali transcended his sport: he defied his government over the Vietnam war, saying he would refuse to be drafted ("I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong ... They never called me nigger").; and he converted to the Nation of Islam, which advocated black separatism (Ali later became a conventional Sunni Muslim).
But in recent years many of the estimated 2.7m Viet kieu (overseas Vietnamese) have begun trickling back, encouraged by the government.
One says that although they are officially welcomed, he is sure that they are closely watched by the authorities to see if they belong to exiled pro-democracy groups (some of which are indeed sending in Viet kieu).
These links to viet kieu, or overseas Vietnamese, give the south a more cosmopolitan outlook, and provide southern businessmen with capital and ideas.All this helps to explain why the south has taken to the government's economic reforms so much more readily than the north.
The French surrender to the Viet Minh forces on May 7 , 1954 effectively ended the first Indochina War and the French colonial presence in Southeast Asia.
The DRV supported the insurgent National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) in South Vietnam.
While Kennedy had at least the comforting illusion of progress in Vietnam (manufactured by Harkins and Diem), Johnson faced a starker picture of confusion, disunity, and muddle in Saigon and of a rapidly growing Viet Cong in the countryside.
Viet Dinh, a former senior official in George W. Bush's justice department, is godfather to a son of Lachlan Murdoch, Murdoch's eldest son.
Viet Cong: Viet Cong Guitar squalls and pounding drums abound on this debut full-length release from the Canadian post-punk band.
The main charges against Nguyen Viet Tien, a former deputy transport minister, who was the highest-level official to be arrested over the scandal, have been dropped.
IN A panel discussion at Harvard University on Saturday, Viet Dinh, who served as assistant attorney general in George W. Bush's administration and was the chief architect of the USA Patriot Act, was asked whether it was true that Barack Obama's national security policies were largely a continuation of Mr Bush's.
