Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...south, at Qui Nhon, another 2,500 American troops debarked to join the 4,000-man brigade of the 4th Infantry Division in the Central Highlands. That brought the total U.S. force in South Viet Nam to 317,500-and for the first time in the war, the Americans outnumbered the South Vietna mese regular army (there are 388,000 more South Vietnamese under arms as militia and police). With more fighting like that at the Rockpile in the offing, every man will be needed...
...duty for the next six months. Last week, as the delegates began organizing themselves into committees, the politicking had already begun. The younger representatives were lobbying vigorously for a share of the chairmanships that in the normal traditions of Vietnamese society would automatically go to their elders. The central Vietnamese, encouraged by General Vinh Loc, II Corps commander, were trying to put together a bloc to protect their interests against the north and the south. All told, some 60 to 70 political parties provided the setting of South Viet Nam's venture into nationhood as the Assembly...
...southerners include military men and members of such disparate groups as the Cao Dai, the Hoa Hao, the Dai Viet party, and a new "Movement for the Renaissance of the South." Should Van succeed, he will have the largest regional grouping in the Assembly (northerners account for 27 seats, central Vietnamese for 28). Cutting across regional lines, Dr. Phan Quang Dan, 48, and his new "Rising Sun" party are trying to fuse worker and peasant sentiment in support of his American-backed land-reform and free-unionism platform. And South Viet Nam's ethnic minorities-Montagnards, Chinese, Cambodians-were...
...first inclination on taking power last July was to drop all semblance of a strong central government, and plug for a confederation of almost independent states. Taking him at his word, Northern politicians put together a proposal that envisaged a loose league tied together only by common currency, post office and diplomatic service. But Gowon soon realized that that would have meant splitting the army-a notion that he could not countenance...
...reversed himself, and his 14-man constitutional convention sat down again with orders to scuttle regional autonomy and seek a stronger central system...