Word: mekong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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South of Saigon, in the Mekong Delta, the nature of the enemy was laid bare in a gruesome incident. A Vietnamese force discovered 25 prisoners of the Viet Cong, mostly civilians and three of them women, shot in their chains at Phu Lam. Twenty were dead. The survivors disclosed that as the Vietnamese closed in, the retreating Viet Cong had told them that they could go free-then shot them in the back as they walked away in their chains...
...refer to the subject material of other war ballads (prostitution in Saigon, inter-service rivalry in Garet Trooper, and military discipline in Bemibe) to indicate that in some radically different original form a few of them might indeed have been crooned in a shot-up rice paddy on the Mekong Delta. If so, it is interesting to note that, aside from a few murky references to Freedom and Those Oppressed, the lyrics are entirely apolitical, and unconcerned with whom we are fighting or why. Sadler, it seems, is only interested in his Fightin' Soldiers From...
...Western Samoa are banding together for their own economic development -largely at the behest of the United Na tions Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East. "The river is a psy chological rallying point," says U Nyun, ECAFE executive secretary. "Countries that normally bicker can work together. The Mekong project holds the seeds -perhaps the only really promising seeds -for abiding peace in Southeast Asia...
Road to Adventure. Laos, South Viet Nam, Thailand and Cambodia have al ready made a harmonious start at harnessing the Himalaya-fed Mekong. In addition to Nam Pong dam, five other power and irrigation projects costing $50.7 million are built or abuilding on Mekong tributaries. Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines forged another kind of economic tie two weeks ago by reviving the dormant Association for Southeast Asia, tentatively agreeing to cut cable rates, swap radio and TV shows, begin free trade in a few commodities. Headquarters for the $1 billion Asian Development Bank, aimed at financing such sinews as power...
Jigsaw Puzzle. For all its progress, Asia is a long way from such close bonds as those of Europe's Common Market. Poverty compels Asia's economic partners to put resource development, notably of the Mekong, ahead of tariff cutting and trade. In Asia's developing countries, per-capita income averages only $100 a year, agriculture ties up 71% of the labor force, 60% illiteracy among persons over 14 hobbles productivity, and a worsening trade deficit cancels half the bounty of foreign aid. U Nyun expects the area to spawn "a jigsaw puzzle" of groups for differing...