Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pleiku, a highland town of 66,000, was 50% destroyed and 11,000 of its people made homeless. Ban Me Thuot was 25% destroyed, had over 500 civilian dead and 20,000 refugees. In the Delta, Vinh Long was 25% destroyed and burdened with 14,000 new refugees. Ben Tre (pop. 35,000) was one of the hardest hit towns in all Viet Nam: 45% destroyed, nearly 1,000 dead, and 10,000 homeless. Many sections of Saigon were heavily damaged and 120,000 people left homeless. Estimates of the damage to Hue ran as high...
...Peace talks could take place right now if a civilian government were in power in South Vietnam," he said. "The Saigon government has no appeal and continues to exist only because of United States military support...
...report should cause the President to reject its recommendations: Wirtz doesn't think the country needs educational or occupational deferments. In testimony before a Senate sub-committee last March, he said that once the present system is changed, there will be no justification on the basis of civilian manpower needs for any educational or occupational deferments. The IAC had assumed the continued use of the oldest-first system in making its recommendations. At the very most, the President might defer men studying nuclear physics...
...supporting V.C. troops positioned around the embassy began lobbing mortar fire onto the grounds. Then the 19 commandos appeared, wearing civilian clothes (with identifying red armbands) and carrying automatic weapons, rockets and enough high explosives to demolish the building. Attacking simultaneously, some of the guerrillas blasted a hole in the concrete wall with an antitank gun and swarmed through it; others quickly scaled a rear fence. Though allied intelligence had predicted the attack, the embassy's defense consisted of only five U.S. military guards-just one more than normal. They fought back so fiercely that only their courage denied...
...tires. Yet there are streaks of vanity in him. Because of his short stature (5 ft.), he likes to stand on boxes to deliver his speeches. On visits to his troops, he is liable to shuck his uniform, four-starred helmet and all, and show up dressed conspicuously in civilian clothes. He is a ruthless taskmaster, utterly contemptuous of the value of human life-even that of his own troops. "Every minute, thousands of men die all over the world," he tells his officers. "The life and death of human beings means nothing...