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...terms of human misery-of the corruption in Viet Nam today. The massive U.S. presence has grotesquely distorted the traditional system. It has given the Vietnamese too many opportunities for profiteering, and inflation has aggravated the situation. One statistic helps explain why so many yield to the temptation: since Ngo Dinh Diem was overthrown in 1963, civil service salaries have doubled, while the piaster has fallen to an eighth of its former value (officially the rate is 275 piasters to the dollar; the black-market rate is about...
...includes a number of high-ranking officers who are deeply involved in profiteering. With a presidential election coming up in November, they say, he is in no position to start swinging a political ax at influential backers. His opponents, on the other hand, point out that his own uncle, Ngo Xuan Tich, directs the government agency charged with rooting out corruption, while Tran Thien Khoi, a brother of Premier Tran Thien Khiem, is in charge of all antismuggling operations...
...relocation campaign, called "Gathering the People" by Region II Commanding General Ngo Dzu, has been opposed from the start by some U. S. officials in Saigon and in the field who fear that concentrating thousands of Montagnards near main roads threatens the economic self-sufficiency of Montagnard communities...
...Ngo Vinh Long, a Vietnamese graduate student, criticized the American press for its inadequate and distorted reporting of the war in Indochina, and said that Americans are "essentially unaware of what is really happening in Vietnam and Laos." He also criticized the American anti-war movement for its "ethnocentric arrogance," and for its factionalism...
...activities will include discussions led by Rosgelio Reyes of the Latin American Liberation, Louis Ganlen of the Young Lords Party, a socialist group for Puerto Rican independence, Ngo Vinh Long, a member of a South African Liberation group and Caroline Hunter, a member of the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers...