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Other Wars. For this reason, many U.S. officials in Saigon anticipate a gradual increase in anti-Americanism. Some, in fact, believe that Thieu himself has already begun to encourage such a trend. After a recent speech by the President to a group of officer cadets at Dalat, several trainees spread the word that the Americans had conspired to permit Communist infiltration of South Vietnamese cities in the Tet offensive of 1968, that the U.S. was dilatory in delivering air strikes at Quang Tri City during the Communists' 1972 offensive, and that Henry Kissinger had betrayed South Viet...
...hill people is common even outside resettlement camps. Montagnard farmers are regularly cheated when selling their produce. Admits a village official in Tuyen Duc province: "If there are ten kilos of mushrooms, the Vietnamese will usually tell the Montagnard there are only six." Buying food is no better. In Dalat, a can of corn that costs a Vietnamese 40 piasters will cost a Montagnard...
...second largest city has rarely looked more prosperous. Every store window is full. The shops are freshly painted, and for the first time in years an effort is being made to clean up the streets. In the central market there are baskets of bananas, lettuce flown in from Dalat, fresh oranges from Cambodia. A new air-conditioned hotel has just opened, and despite the withdrawal of American G.I.s, Danang's restaurants still offer Johnny Walker Scotch and Courvoisier Cognac...
Problem Areas. The job is less complicated in the two northern corps areas, which are still vulnerable to attack from Communist-held sanctuaries in northeastern Cambodia and southern Laos. In recent weeks, groups of North Vietnamese regulars have raided the picturesque lakeside resort of Dalat in the Central Highlands three times. Their most recent attacks were aimed at the airport, the National Military Academy and a government-owned villa where Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky frequently vacations. After killing at least 17 South Vietnamese, the Communists holed up in three Roman Catholic institutions and pinned down government forces from sharpshooter...
...week journeyed into the countryside for the second time in five days. In Lam Dong province, north of Saigon, he made a presentation of land titles to two of 1,737 peasants being given acres under his accelerated land-reform program. At a stopover in the mountain resort of Dalat, he hosted a lamb barbecue for a group of foreign diplomats and journalists...