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...pinned-down comrades, hurling grenades into the Viet Cong bunkers and gunning down the Reds when they tried to escape. Long's men lost only three killed and 27 wounded in the charge, but before the day was out the South Vietnamese had killed 356 of the enemy. Highland Fling. The Americans were getting in their licks too. Up in the Central Highlands near the Cambodian border, elements of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division killed 225 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese in a series of fulminating fire fights after the Reds had ambushed two of its companies...
...long before USAID-supported programs for civilian pacification got under way, some Americans were hard at work in South Viet Nam helping strife-ridden citizens. Few have worked harder against greater odds than Seattle-born Dr. Patricia Marie Smith, 40, who has been in the central highland province of Kontum since 1959, first helping in a leprosarium, then running her own makeshift clinic, now operating a 40-bed hospital...
Into the Hills. French colonial policy kept the highland Montagnards and lowland Vietnamese apart. Tribal courts were allowed to judge Montagnard morals and property disputes, while Paris encouraged the teaching of tribal languages-and French-in the highland schools. Montagnard troops fought in separate units under French officers, just as the Gurkhas and Rajputs did in Britain's Indian army...
Arms or Acquiescence. That gave rise to Fulro, a Montagnard nationalist underground movement meaning "United Front for the Liberation of the Oppressed Races." In September 1964, Fulro rebels captured five Special Forces camps in the highlands and along the Cambodian border, killed 50 Vietnamese troops, and seized the radio station at Ban Me Thuot-a highland town of 30,000 that serves as the Montagnard capital. Premier Nguyen Khanh tried to calm the Montagnards with enlightened promises of a bill of minority rights, but political instability in the capital made implementation of the new policy impossible. The Viet Cong also...
...Fulro's demands by setting up a special commission for Montagnard affairs, named a Montagnard to head it. He promised to return tribal lands to Montagnard control, create a special Montagnard pennant to be flown alongside the national flag, and set up an elite highland military force under Montagnard command. Nine Montagnard representatives now sit in Saigon's Constitutional Assembly, and tribal languages are again being taught in highland schools. More than 500 scholarships have been granted to Montagnards; two students left last week for studies...