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...central Luzon, Marcos' own formula is a blend of military and civic action, with emphasis on the latter. "Call it anything you like," he says, "community development, civic action, rural reconstruction, revolutionary development. It boils down to offering a better life to the peasant." That, as the Johnson Administration emphasized in the Honolulu Declaration of February 1966, may ultimately prove the only formula for success in Viet Nam as well...
...Imported fertilizer and improved strains of seed and breeding pigs and chickens are helping to raise peasant incomes in Viet Nam, where 85% of the people live off the land. Pesticide sprays treated 1,400,000 acres and 10 million rats were exterminated last year, halving a 30% crop wastage through vermin and disease...
...four regions have committed less than half of their 1966 development budgets; in northern provinces, racked by anti-government ferment last summer, as little as 13% of these projects has been completed. Reform of Viet Nam's archaic land tenure, the key to a land-hungry peasant's loyalty, is also dragging. Though Komer claims that the Ky regime "is proceeding with distribution of 1,200,000 acres of expropriated and government-owned land," in fact it has only managed so far to hand out title deeds to 40,000 acres, and many of those tracts have been...
Election Disruption. The 13,000 irregulars of the Riff and Piff are an uncertain defense force. "You can't take a peasant out of a paddy, give him three weeks of training and expect him to be a red-hot soldier," says one U.S. officer. Nevertheless, supported by Vietnamese army, marine and ranger units, they stage an average of twelve major operations a month against V.C. elements on the outskirts of the city...
...first F.I.C.C. rally in an Iron Curtain country, and the Hungarians did their best to please. Inside the main camp was a U.S.-style shopping center where Hungarian girls in native peasant dresses hawked rugs, paintings and even antique silverware. A supermarket sold Red Chinese meat loaf, canned Peking duck, Russian tuna fish, Yugoslav salami, Hungarian goulash, and East German herring. The shelves were loaded with just about every variety of East-bloc wine and liquor. Next to the shopping complex a loudspeaker blared Red-tinged news reports alternately in English, French, German and Hungarian ("Seven American planes were shot...