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...closed by violence. Last week a Viet Cong tossed a grenade into the living room of a village chief on Danang Bay. They killed a member of a government propaganda team distributing leaflets in Quang Nam province. They kidnaped two elders from a hamlet less than a mile from Hue. And they shot a villager in a hamlet in Thua Thien as a lesson to all the villagers not to vote in South Viet Nam's presidential elections. It was all in a week's work of governing, Viet Cong-style...
...annual cost of educating a Vietnamese student in the present universities at Can Tho, Hue and Saigon is quite low in comparison to institutions within knowledge of the survey team...
...effects of inflation have seriously impeded the development of physical facilities for the nation's higher education. Sorely needed student housing at Saigon and a wing of the medical faculty at Hue have stood since 1964 and 1965 in half-finished condition, at the point where money allocated for their construction...
...means in Vietnam for rapid and efficient access to printed materials in the national language. Not only are university libraries small and texts scarce but book collections that do exist require fluency in a foreign language on the part of the user. The 20,000 volume central library at Hue, assembled with great difficulty, is more than 50 in French, Chinese and English. Moreover students without fluency in a foreign language are restricted in their programs by the fact that several courses taught by foreign professors are given in the native language of the instructor...
Educated in Hue, he started his career as a teacher, acquiring skills that he put to work when he joined the Communists in the 1930s and helped to create Ho Chi Minh's party youth organization. He learned his soldiering in Mao Tse-tung's military "academy" in Yeman from 1941 to 1943, then fought with the Chinese Communists until the end of World War II. From 1950 to 1961 he was chief political officer for Ho's army in Hanoi; in 1964 he was sent to South Viet Nam, where he had since directed, with considerable...