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Plus 14%. Officially called the Revolutionary Development Cadre, its teams were recruited from the regions in which they were working, and were trained for 13 weeks in the arts of "self-defense, self-help and self-government" at seaside Vung Tau. Skilled in everything from using a grenade launcher to digging a well and administering first aid, they are Saigon's-and the U.S.'s -first wave of shock troops in elemental nationhood. Already, 5,000 more cadremen are in training; by the end of the year hopefully 15,000 will be in the field. Some will...
...which they enthusiastically burned a Viet Cong and a North Viet Nam flag and pledged allegiance to the Saigon government, the Viet Cong machine-gunned Police Chief Lam as he sat at tea. In Binh Dinh province, where 14 teams have already secured 14 hamlets, got 34 village self-help projects under way and resettled 6,500 people, five officials have been assassinated by the Communists. But, says former U.S. Marine Major Richard Kriegel, the spark behind Binh Dinh's pacification thrust: "The reaction of the people now is that this is going to happen, but they...
...process. "In some unknown number of cases the court's rule will return a killer, a rapist or other criminal to the streets to repeat his crime whenever it pleases him." Seeing the police as now practically powerless, White worried about citizens who can "only engage in violent self-help with guns, knives and the help of their neighbors similarly inclined...
Into this setting come volunteers from ACCION (Americans for Community Action in Other Countries), a sort of private Peace Corps. Their primary job is to develop a community spirit in the barrios (slums) and to stimulate the habit of self-help. What complicates their task is the numbing sense of futility bred by the sprawling poverty. In Caracas, for instance, innumerable tin and cardboard huts perch uncertainly on the scenic hillsides. They are put up overnight and house hundreds of thousands of peasants who flood the city seeking work and a better life. They find neither. Few make more than...
...surprisingly, ACCION's self-help ideal sometimes falls short in practice. The barrio is a transitory settlement of strangers, and the organizational sense often fades in the rapid population turnover. Moreover, not everyone is interested in progress; sometimes various politicians depend for their power on maintaining the status...