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...poor country, and though Portugal maintains some 40,000 soldiers within its borders (equal to more than a third of the total population), the country's roads and communications are not good enough to prevent rebel forces from traveling relatively freely from one end to the other. Since 60 percent of the Europeans live in the two costal cities of Beira and Lourenco Marques, the capital, the backcountry outposts and plantations have taken on the air of armed camps...
Delano estimated that over 70 percent of Harvard applicants to the Peace Corps will be accepted. Last year 125 members of the graduating class actually entered the Corps, but this was not the exact group which signed during recruiting. The success of last year's drive "astounded" Delano...
...peasants were poor by our standards and poor enough by their own standards to be good targets for propaganda from the North. By Asian standards they were well off. Their crops were bountiful. The maximum interest rate allowed by Diem's hard-to-enforce laws was 25 percent, only one-quarter to one-eighth that generally charged in the prosperous Philippines. The May 2nd Committee has remarked that when this rate was set, many landlords raised their rents to this figure. This is true. But in the context of South-east Asia it is almost incredible that the rates would...
...Communist movement in China in 1949, the United States became increasingly involved in Southeast Asia. During the Korean War the U.S. expanded its economic and military aid to Laos and Vietnam as a part of the overall "containment" policy against China. By 1954 the Americans were paying 78 percent of the French military budget in Vietnam...
...South. But the United States had no intenion of permitting the election. As President Eisenhower stated in his memories. "I have never talked or corresponded with a person knowledgeable in Indochinese affairs who did not agree that had elections been held as of the time of fighting, possible 80 percent of the population would have voted for the Communist Ho Chi Minh as their leader." Some observers have estimated that the Viet Minh was even stronger in the South than in the North...