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...where 80% of the people lived on farms into a society where 40% to 50% are city dwellers. Other South Vietnamese cities have grown at an even faster rate than Saigon: since 1964, Cam Ranh has nearly quintupled to 85,000, Tarn Hiep has tripled to 62,000, and Danang has more than doubled...
...cities may create unmanageable problems. South Viet Nam's public services are unable to cope with the strain. In all major cities, the sewage systems, garbage collection, telephones and electrical facilities are overtaxed to the point of collapse. Saigon's bankrupt bus system stopped operating last year. Danang lacks sewers and garbage disposal; its water supply is contaminated. All the cities have vast slum areas. Adequate housing remains critically short, especially in Saigon and Hue, which suffered heavily in the Communists' 1968 Tet offensive against the cities. Medical care lags far behind demand...
...capital has bought 50 new flotation fire pumps, which can draw water from the city's canals to fight fires. Result: while 300 to 500 shacks used to perish in a single blaze, the figure has now been reduced to as low as 30. With U.S. aid, Danang will soon receive a 2,000,000-gallon-capacity water-purification plant. In Saigon, 29 public health clinics have been established. Insecticide spraying is now widespread. The U.S.-run Saigon Civil Assistance Group (SCAG) is encouraging neighborhood self-help projects to increase civic awareness...
...improbable that jobs can be found for most of the 1,000,000 men now under arms. Furthermore, second-generation urban migrants, lacking the farm skills of their parents, will probably remain in the cities, intensifying the unemployment problem. A foretaste of the postwar situation is already evident in Danang, where the U.S. Navy is pulling out. Each day Vietnamese line up outside Navy compounds looking for work, only to be turned away...
...some ways, the fighting in South Viet Nam has almost faded away. American casualty rates are at the lowest level in four years. A huge sweep by 6,500 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops in the Que Son Valley near Danang has turned up almost no enemy forces in an area that has long been a center of Communist activity. But in cities and hamlets throughout the country, a war of terror is rapidly heating up. The number of murders, kidnapings and other terrorist incidents has risen from 654 in January to 1,094 last month. The incidents last week...