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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Boys of 15 and 16 are being drafted by the North, including Catholics who had not been considered sufficiently reliable in the past because of the strong Catholic minority in the South. Many
...military capability has skidded into a downward curve, the South's is on the upswing. According to a Pentagon study conducted by Assistant Secretary of Defense Dr. Alain Enthoven, South Viet Nam's armed forces along with its Regional and Popular Forces have improved enough in the past two years to equal the introduction of 190,000 more U.S. fighting...
Four years later, Republicans accused Grover Cleveland of siring an illegitimate child, and anti-Cleveland mobs cried derisively: "Ma, ma, where's my pa?", to which Cleveland's Democrats appended: "Gone to the White House. Ha! Ha! Ha!"* For all that, presidential candidates in the past were usually spared the ignominy of being heckled to their faces...
...history of the war, many things have been tried to make effective use of civilians - strategic hamlet enclaves, the regional and popular forces, which are a uniformed militia based in their home area and thus more familiar with local conditions than regular South Vietnamese or U.S. troops. But few past programs seem to have caught on so well as the new popular-defense outfit...
...training is rugged, and weapons and ammunition are scarce. The long night watches stretch from dusk till past dawn. The irregulars get no pay, and must provide their own uniforms, bedding and food. The reason they do it is clear enough. Says one, Le Chi, a middle-aged maker of mosquito nets: "I protect my city. If during Tet we had had a self-defense, the V.C. would not have come in. Now they can't burn our houses again...