Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nasution wavered. The murder of his daughter had left him profoundly shocked. One day he would demand that Sukarno outlaw the P.K.I, or resign, the next declare his undivided loyalty to the "Great Leader of the Revolution." "General Nasution," observes one leading politician, "is the Hamlet of Indonesia. He believes he is destined to save the country. But he vacillates in a moment of crisis...
...escort ignored him. By day his hands were bound in green nylon cord; at night he was tied hand and foot to a bamboo rack. Passing through villages, people turned out in droves to gape and offer water, candy, cigarettes and bananas. Only in a recently bombed hamlet were the villagers hostile, pushing close in an angry, chanting crowd until the chief arrived to disperse them. Four times, English-speaking Vietnamese appeared. Each asked Dodson's name and told him not to be afraid: "The Vietnamese don't kill their prisoners...
...from the vaulting heroes of past tragedy. The tragic hero must bear full responsibility for his acts, and that is what makes him a thing of the past. Modern intellectual man sees himself as the plaything of powers beyond his reach and shrugs along with Hamlet: "The time is out of joint." The modern mind reduces tragedy to accident and prefers to believe in chance, which is a parody of destiny...
...more cadremen are in training; by the end of the year hopefully 15,000 will be in the field. Some will be old hands at pacification retrained to bring new skill to their job. They are the manpower legacy of previous programs, from President Diem's Strategic Hamlet Cadre through the New Life Cadre to the highly competent, current Political Action Teams (TIME, Feb. 18), which already comprise some 16,000 workers in rural areas...
...Gang. When a team fresh from Vung Tau in their black pajamas and black berets arrived in Binh Phuoc, an inland hamlet of rice and manioc farmers, they started from the ground up-and slowly-to win the confidence of the villagers. First project: drawing a crude map of the village, its homes and road accesses. They ate in the local restaurants as a means of getting acquainted, took guard duty at night, began a census, used part of their first paychecks to buy cigarettes to give away. Working in three-man cells, they visited huts during the day, passing...