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...only just beginning. The schools will reopen within a month. CORDS officials are trying to organize commercial convoys-fleets of trucks guarded by military vehicles-over the enemy-interdicted roads. Some 70% of the R.D. workers have returned to their posts but, in some provinces, such as Kien Giang, Phong Dinh and Kien Phong, there is no chance of a return. The Viet Cong pressure is just too heavy...
...Saigon government put up the buildings, but when the Viet Cong burned them down, the local people were indifferent. Now it is common for Saigon to provide the cement and aluminum roofing and let the residents do the work. That way, notes Ho Van Chieu, primary education chief for Phong Dinh province, "the V.C. are afraid to burn them down for fear of infuriating the people who built them...
Shuffling jobs as well as men, Ky last week defused the issue still further by appointing six new Cabinet ministers-southerners all-to replace the four dissidents who had departed. Saigon Dentist Nguyen Van Tho became Minister of Education, Nguyen Xuan Phong took the portfolio for Social Welfare, and Colonel Ho Van Di Hinh became Youth Minister. Deputy Premier Nguyen Luu Vien added the new Culture Ministry to his duty roster. Onetime Economics Minister Truong Thai Ton moved over to the Ministry of Industry, and Nguyen Kien Thien An became Minister of Commerce...
Strung up by his heels from a tree limb, the Viet Cong prisoner, his face twisted in pain, was being interrogated by Nung mercenaries working with a U.S. Special Forces unit in the jungle near Due Phong. The photograph caught an ugly tableau found in every war, and it was widely reprinted in the U.S. press, often with indignant captions. As so often happens with coverage of Allied harshness, neither the picture nor many of its captions told the whole story...
...most immediate and urgent problem, Tien Phong felt, "is to stabilize the masses' life. There must be plans to build or consolidate shelters from bombs and artillery fire and at the same time to lead and organize mutual assistance in production and struggle to enable the masses to have their minds at ease." Only that way can the party leaders organize "steady, strong political ranks" to be used later as the nucleus of a military force. "Many areas are still failing to organize a permanent struggle force," the magazine concluded, "and even where this force is available, it lacks...