Word: darlac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...highlands began in 1954, when President Ngo Dinh Diem's regime attempted to "assimilate" the million-odd Montagnards. Tribal schools and courts were abolished, and 200,000 Vietnamese moved into the hills-often violating tribal tenure rights to grab rich land along the highlands' racing rivers. In Darlac, a Vietnamese province chief decreed that Montagnards must wear shirts and slacks; in Pleiku, Montagnards were forbidden to build their houses on stilts. By 1958, the tribesmen were completely dispossessed: Diem denied them title to their lands...
...responsible, before both the American and Vietnamese peoples, for the existence of the Huong government." Whereupon Chau, Quang and the Buddhists' nominal religious head, Thich Tinh Khiet, announced a 48-hour weekend hunger strike, urging Buddhists to join them in round-the-clock prayer sessions. From Darlac province came an offer of candidates for flaming Buddhist suicides...
...hear something of the people's feelings, TIME Correspondent Jerry Rose went on a three-week tour of the farms and villages, from the canal-laced Mekong delta to the lowland jungles of Darlac to the sagebrush plains of Pleiku. His report...