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...problem has been that perennial ARVN soft spot, poor leadership. U.S. military men give high marks to a number of top officers, among them General Ngo Quang Truong, commander of IV Corps, and Major General Nguyen Vinh Nghi, whose 21st Division cleared the treacherous U Minh forest in the Mekong Delta in a tough but little-noted operation last year. Even so, most U.S. advisers below the rank of major speak of their Vietnamese counterparts with condescension if not outright contempt...
...changed the topic suddenly. "Do you know that the Mekong is the world's longest unbridged river...
...afternoon in Luang Prabang I sat drinking the juice of a coconut on the banks of the Mekong. I had just begun a second coconut when a Lao in an air force uniform sat down beside me and told me I should not drink so much coconut juice. I told him that people in India believe coconut juice makes you strong...
Were it not for the effects of the war, there would be nothing very surprising about Vietnam's economy, apart from the extraordinary fertility of the Mekong Delta. Apart from that its resource endowments are moderate. It has abundant fish; and extensive forest resources. It has no minerals and no power sources (other than limited hydroelectric power). All that of course could be transformed if oil were discovered and produced...
...World Bank will of course have a role to play, and has already begun to cooperate with the U.N. in the Mekong. There is some doubt about whether these international agencies will be willing to operate on the scale required. While strenuous efforts whould be made to channel development aid through them, bilateral loans from the U.S., and hopefully. Japan will probably continue to be important...