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Training Program. But the Viet Cong overplayed their hand. They took rice and livestock from the montagnards in order to feed their guerrillas, used terror tactics against the more recalcitrant mountain villages. Tens of thousands of montagnards fled to government-held territory. Prodded by the U.S., President Ngo Dinh Diem's government has begun an attempt to win the montagnards over with a resettlement program. Even more important, U.S. military advisers have started a program to arm and train montagnards, who then are sent back into the hills to defend their villages and to keep the surrounding territory...
...Exports: Livestock. Per capita income: $40. U.S. aid (1961): $2,000,000. Firmly anti-Communist despite overtures from Ghana and Guinea...
Exports: Bananas, livestock products. Per capita income: $42. U.S. aid (1961): $4,200,000. Somalis of Arabian origin, hope to annex ethnically linked areas of Ethiopia, Kenya, French Somaliland into "Greater Somalia." Strong resistance to Communism...
...right to found, at his own expense, a colony on the upper Rio Grande in what is now New Mexico. Oñate set out for his new domain leading an army of 400 Spanish settlers and soldiers, 83 wagons and carts, 7,000 head of livestock, eight priests and a poet named Villagrá, who wrote a flowery epic about the expedition. Leaving the wagon train near the site of modern El Paso, Don Juan and a party of adventurers pressed up the Rio Grande. In July 1598 they reached two Indian pueblos, Yuque and Yunque, on opposite sides...
Today, as another army from the north -the Communist Viet Cong-threatens South Viet Nam, the South Vietnamese government is hopeful that history can be made to repeat itself. Requisitioning two livestock marking machines from the U.S., the South Vietnamese will tattoo on the chests of their sailors the phrase "Sat Cong" (Let's kill the Communists...