Word: mekong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JUSPAO this year will spend $10 million on new tricks and techniques-three times as much money as was spent on psywar a year ago. The mark of Zorro was evident last week in the village of Phung Hiep, a district capital in the Mekong Delta where a South Vietnamese "rural spirit" drama troupe was busy maligning Red China and Ho Chi Minh. In between propaganda skits, the troupe sang classical Vietnamese ballads, and played boogie-woogie...
Tigers & Sheepishness. Psywar works on friend and foe alike. During a tough battle in the Mekong Delta recently, local girls were sent aloft at night to warn the V.C. that they were "facing a unit that never loses, the 7th Division." Recalls an American psywar expert: "It may not have worried the guerrillas, but it turned the South Vietnamese troops into tigers...
...regional version of the World Bank, will start off with modest aims, considering the problems that Asia faces. It will make only businesslike loans (for 20 to 25 years at 5½%), thus placing beyond its range such grand designs as President Johnson's proposal that the Mekong River be transformed into an Asian TVA project. The bank's capital will be chiefly in hard currencies supplied by governments. Most of the money has already been pledged: $200 million each from the U.S. (subject to congressional approval) and Japan, $100 million jointly from Australia and New Zealand...
...bombs. And by the tens of thousands each week, U.S. fighting men swarmed into Viet Nam (total at the end of last week: 128,000), first to relieve the pressure on Vietnamese troops, then to go aggressively hunting and killing the enemy on their own from the Mekong Delta to the Viet Cong's highland sanctuaries. Phase 3 died aborning, because wherever two or three V.C. companies tried to gather, Allied planes were soon on the scene-and often enough with helilifted Allied troops not far behind...
...plans are being made to dam the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for power and irrigation. Brazil has just completed the $186 million Furnas Dam, South America's largest hydroelectric complex. In a project financed by the U.N. and 20 Western nations, four dams are being thrown across the Mekong River and tributaries in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Viet Nam. As part of the Indus River project, India has built one of the world's highest dams (740 ft.) across the Sutlej River at Bhakra...