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...southwest, they will drive nearly four miles to the base of South Massif and collect samples from a rock-strewn region that scientists believe was formed by a huge landslide from the upper slopes of that mountain billions of years ago. Scientists hope that the rocks consist largely of highland material far older than the relatively young rock of the valley floor. En route back to the LM, the astronauts will stop at a 300-ft.-wide crater called Shorty, which may yield entirely different material: deep-lying rock that was either ejected by a meteor impact or a volcanic...
...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Soon Vietnamese legal codes superseded the traditional Montagnard court system, highland languages were banned from Montagnard schools, and highland villages were given new Vietnamese names.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...
...Montagnards (mountain or highland people) were named by the French. They consist of two dozen or so linguistically distinct tribes whose forebears arrived long before the Vietnamese, though both groups probably came from China...
...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...