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...growing military market. Last-fall a Pentagon investigating team returned from Viet Nam with a report that drugs had become a serious "military problem." Last month the U.S. command in Saigon announced an all-out campaign against narcotics, complete with a 64-page directive and plans for ground and aerial searches for fields where marijuana is grown. Military surveys taken over the past two years have shown that from 30% to 45% of the troops in Viet Nam have used drugs, mainly marijuana. Of the 11,000 G.I.s who were apprehended or investigated last year for drug violations, 75% were...
...undetermined reasons, mangrove species have proved to be particularly sensitive. Essentially all vegetation is killed. Preliminary aerial and ground inspection by the Commission showed little or no recolonization by mangrove tree species after three or more years. . . . Without vegetation, the area obviously cannot support most of the bird and ground animal species associated with the previously existing mangrove forests. A possibly important exception are crabs, large numbers of which were observed in barren areas. By devouring seedlings, crabs may be retarding revegetation. There are signs of erosion along the denuded coastlines but as yet they are slight. Major typhoons, which...
From the HAC preliminary report: "Approximately one-fifth of South Vietnam's merchantable hardwood forests have been sprayed, including many of the oldest and most valuable stands. Aerial inspection of forests in a wide are north of Saigon extending from the Cambodian frontier in the west to the South China Sea on the east showed more than half of the forest to be very severely damaged. Over large areas, most of the trees appeared dead and bamboo had spread over the ground. A danger in this is that the invading bamboo species may be essentially worthless and very expensive...
Meselson's Herbicide Assessment Commission took detailed aerial photographs of the valley, then counted the visible dwellings in the area which was sprayed. They found a high population density throughout the target area. The spraying covered approximately 1000 acres, and within this region the HAC found more than 900 dwellings, enough for approximately 5,000 people. These dwellings were built in typical Montagnard style. The population density, then, was 180 persons per square kilometer, a high density for highland Vietnam...
...Command announced yesterday it launched the heaviest aerial bombing attacks on North Vietnam in three months over the weekend. Word of the raids, called "protective reaction strikes," was withheld until Tuesday, a spokesman said, "mostly for security reasons...