Word: strategichamlet
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...hardly surprising agreement to intensify anti-guerrilla operations in South Viet Nam's rice bowl, a wedge-shaped section of the Mekong Delta from Saigon south, where one-third of the population is concentrated and the Viet Cong is strongest. Another decision: to revise the government's strategichamlet program. All too often in the past, reluctant peasants were herded into bleak "fortified" villages that were in fact insufficiently protected because they were too hastily built. Meanwhile the Red guerrillas, who were supposed to be starving in the no man's land outside the hamlets, managed to live...
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