Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Further, we have yet to demonstrate that search-and-destroy tactics can defeat the Viet Cong in any significant way. Secretary McNamara has said confidently that "we are no longer losing the war." But neither are we winning. All of our successful operations have been confined to the central plains area, 300 miles northeast of Saigon, a region settled largely by Catholic refugees from the North and hardly a Viet Cong stronghold; or in areas like Chu Lai where American seapower provides tactical support unavailable inland. Even where we have "destroyed" the enemy, guerillas have repeatedly re-infiltrated after...
...peasantry has remained loyal to the Viet Cong underground, which operates as the main intelligence source for the Communists. As Charles Mohr reported from Saigon in Monday's Times, "the peasants have shown little inclination to inform on this structure and to help government activity. This is the central problem of the South Vietnamese...
Although the Administration devoted a very large portion of the Honolulu conference to this central problem, the success of Premier Ky's rural pacification plans remains doubtful. According to Mohr, "after five years of war, the allies are starting from scratch in this field, and that progress must be slow." The allies will have to destroy the Viet Cong's powerful political organization before they can begin to build a viable political structure, and to date they have never ventured into areas under heavy Communist influence which comprise the largest part of South Vietnam...
...Dudley House dining room on the second floor "will serve as a central meeting place where students and teachers can discuss anything from grades to Vietnam over doughnuts and coffee," according to Thomas E. Crooks, Master of Dudley House...
...pressures, Robert C. Maynard, reporter for the York, Pa., Gazette and Daily has been able to find. Maynard, 28, comes from New York City, is jazz fan, and smokes Gauloises; so for him the Nieman year has required no major cultural adjustment. He settled in a bachelor apartment near Central Square...