Word: highlander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South Vietnamese, who contemptuously regard the tribespeople as moi (savages), have used the war to exploit the Montagnards in other ways. Under the French, the hill people were protected against being overrun by the South Vietnamese. In 1954 there were only about 20,000 Vietnamese living in the highland provinces. But during the late '50s, President Ngo Dinh Diem directed more than 200,000 Vietnamese, including many Catholic refugees from North Viet Nam, into the area...
Soon Vietnamese legal codes superseded the traditional Montagnard court system, highland languages were banned from Montagnard schools, and highland villages were given new Vietnamese names. When the Montagnards objected, Diem curbed the possibility of insurrection by confiscating their hunting crossbows...
Neil H. Jacobs of South House and Newton; Roger D. Kaplan of Winthrop House and Norfolk, Va.; Paul G. Kleinman of South House and Peekskill, N.Y.; Robert V. Kohn of Dunster House and Shaker Heights, Ohio; James L. Krauss of Winthrop House and Highland Park, III,; Thomas A. Laage of Dudley House and Granda Hills, Calif...
...South House and Newton; Paul D. Phillips of Lowell House and Washington, D.C.; Jeshus J. Schwartz of South House and Little Nock, N.Y.; James B. Steinberg of Dunster House and Wellesley Jonethan D. Victor of South House and New York City; and, Bradford B. Walters of Currier House and Highland park...
...Unlike Highland Falls, West Point is neither sleepy, nor unplanned, nor does it have lots of bars or nightspots. The students don't come here to play or indulge in flights of intellectual fancy, or to broaden their cultural horizons. They come here to learn how to be soldiers...