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General Dzu ordered all Province Chiefs in Region II late last summer to eliminate all Montagnard hamlets rated C and D (contested and Viet Cong controlled hamlets) by relocating them near lines of communication. Senior U. S. officials in the provinces defend the relocation on the grounds that it will deny the population and resources of Montagnard hamlets to the Viet Cong...

Author: By Ron Moreau and D. GARETH Porter, S | Title: Saigon: Moving the People Out | 3/26/1971 | See Source »

...dispute between Montagnards and Mrs. Nguyen Ky over claims to 3,700 acres in another Central Highland province was reported by A. P. in January. Mrs. Ky says the land is "public domain" while the Montagnards argue they should regain the land after it is retaken from the Viet Cong...

Author: By Ron Moreau and D. GARETH Porter, S | Title: Saigon: Moving the People Out | 3/26/1971 | See Source »

...Massachusetts House has passed- by a vote of 168 to 52- legislation that would impose harsh penalties on anyone displaying the North Vietnamese or Viet Cong flags. The bill now goes to the Senate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Votes Viet Cong Flag Ban | 3/25/1971 | See Source »

Staying in the air over Viet Nam was difficult enough in the days of the old H21 "Flying Bananas." Back then, in the early 1960s, one Viet Cong trick was to set up long spears and trip wires along the ground in such a way that they would be set off by the rotor wash of low-flying choppers. On occasion, startled pilots would find one of the V.C.'s wicked little missiles imbedded in the tail booms when they landed. Now as then, helicopters are extraordinarily vulnerable. Even a single rifle bullet in the huge disc-shaped target...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Killing Is Our Business and Business Is Good | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

...works, especially illustrations for volumes of Shakespeare, Melville, Whitman and Chaucer, have become collectors' items. An admirer of the Soviet Union, he had his passport revoked in 1950; when the Soviets awarded him the Lenin Peace Prize in 1967, he donated $10,000 of it to the Viet Cong. But, exclaimed Kent, "thank God I don't live there. If I did, and didn't trim my sails, I'd be liquidated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 22, 1971 | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

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