Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real problem in Vietnam is far more significant than personal disputes or the short-sightedness of American political advisors. The rural population has long resented the hegemony of Saigon over their affairs. Contrary to many leftist critics in this country, land reform is not the pressing need in Vietnam, for the large majority of the peasants do own their own land. The central problems lies in the exorbitant taxation policies of the central government coupled with immense corruption in Saigon...
...driving the Communists from certain regions, American officials in Saigon will still be confronted with a political vacuum once the fighting is over. Furthermore, while American saturation bombing of the countryside may have boosted morale in Saigon itself, such terror has certainly not endeared the Saigon government to the rural population, which is the central strategic task...
...closed-circuit television. By such tactics, Mexico has managed to cut its illiteracy rate from 58% in 1940 to 37% today. Tanzania is leading 500,000 students through 90-minute classes three times a week for five months to become literate in Swahili. Iran, with an 80% rate in rural areas, drafts high school graduates into an "army of knowledge" for 14 months to teach in villages. Some 15,000 such "sergeant-teachers" have taught 300,000 children and 35,000 adults to read...
...Godwin campaign suggests that the Machine is adapting to new conditions. Godwin lost votes to a third party Conservative in the Southside, the heart of rural segregationist sentiment in Virginia. He gained a huge percentage of votes from urban Negroes, most of whom had voted Republican before Goldwater. He ran fairly well in the city and suburban areas in general, where the Machine has always been weak...
Engelhardt welcomes every question. 'It's the people who don't come to the meetings that concern me," he says. Once he plodded door-to-door in rural W. Hampshire to explain his plans in iving rooms. Recently he helped persuade residents of Greenwich, Conn., hat they could afford a new high school costing $11,800,000. Even Indiana's less affluent Lawrence Township approved Engelhardt's $5,000,000 high school. "It's air-conditioned and has a swimming pool; yet we didn't have any kind of friction at all," boasts...