Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present, a drive for low income housing project appears to be a distant project for the referendum organizers; it's a take, they think, to be attacked after rent control has been won, and a campaign has been waged for enforcement of housing codes. This strategy is patently infeasible. Once the "victory" of rent control is won, the bulk of neighborhood residents will likely rest on their dubious laurels, perhaps forever, at least until it becomes obvious that rent control has not helped the housing situation. By then it will be too late. Most of Cambridge's residents will have...
...tricks is to give the impression that the Saigon government itself is shaping up, and that the United States should help them in this effort instead of forcing them to make a deal with the other side since according to them, this would only lead to an eventual communist take-over and therefore would be tantamount to an American sellout of its ally...
...American press also seems to support this in their daily reports to the effect that the South Vietnamese troops are beginning to take on more of the combat responsibilities as well as more of the war casualties, that the fanatic communists have sacrificed many lives in order to influence the Paris peace talks, but that so far they have been beaten everywhere and that the most recent fighting may be the last offensive they can mount. IN short, the illusion is created that peace is just around the corner. The South Vietnamese government well knows that this kind of thing...
...higher. Daily newspapers from Saigon are full of stories about Vietnamese soldiers robbing and committing suicide either because their wives are sleeping with Americans or because they cannot support their families. The conditions of the so-called refugees are even worse, but let me not take time to go into that here...
...point is that the leaders of the Saigon government know (even though they don't say so) that their own situation is very explosive; but they also know that since the United States government is afraid of a communist take-over, it will continue to help them, regardless of the internal decay. Thus whether by publicly putting up a show-window front or by silently committing to exhibit the realities of weakness and decay--either way--the present South Vietnamese leaders think they can manipulate the united States into maintaining the flow of military and financial support...