Word: paye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation's school systems, nearly all hard pressed for funds, this year will have to pay out a record amount for repair and restitution of senseless vandalism, especially in the summer...
...from thefts. In Detroit, vandalism and thefts cost the schools $415,000 and their insurance coverage. New York's official toll of major vandalism was $1,500,000-not including "minor items" such as furniture breakage and defaced walls, for which the school system had to pay more than...
...fresh recruits for the V.C. main-force units. V.C. women assemble hand grenades in jungle factories, stitch uniforms, care for the wounded. Small boys dig trenches and bunkers, carry messages, build booby traps and learn to throw an occasional grenade. The V.C. tax collector is everywhere levying piasters to pay for the war. Even in neutral or government-controlled areas, Allied pilots have learned that a line of trucks stopped on a road below usually means that the V.C. have set up an impromptu but effective tollbooth. With the piasters that their taxmen collect, well-dressed V.C. agents in Saigon...
Falls turned up literally tons of enemy documents, many of them thought to have come from the top secret files of COSVN (Central Office for South Viet Nam), which is Hanoi's command post for all enemy operations in South Viet Nam. Ranging from requisitions for maternity pay to top-level speeches to a blueprint for creating a Red labor union, the captured papers and photographs?together with recent prisoner and defector interrogations?gave U.S. intelligence a clear and reliable view of the Viet Cong from the inside. They added up to both a history and a handbook...
...push, the Viet Cong began drafting men. Today, conscription is one of the Viet Cong's most serious problems, required not for victory but simply to replace the lengthening roster of casualties. Viet Cong troopers are paid only from 300 to 500 per month, v. a government recruit's pay of $27 per month, and few youths in V.C. areas volunteer any more. Instead, they are given an ultimate choice: join or be shot on the spot?a factor that undoubtedly contributes to the record 20,000 Viet Cong defectors so far this year...