Word: tau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Well aware of the danger of ballot stuffing, the government watched the polls closely. Premier Ky stepped in twice to halt ballot rigging by province chiefs, and indeed his own nephew, running for a seat in coastal Vung Tau, was defeated. Clearly, the generals paid heed to the warning of Major General Nguyen Due Thang, who heads the "revolutionary development" (pacification) program, and also was in charge of running the elections. Thang said: "We have to do this right, or we may never have another chance. The people will never believe us again if this is not a free election...
...example of Tau Nghia is a model of what pacification ought to be-of the goal of "social revolution" to which President Johnson pledged the skills and resources of the U.S. last February in the Honolulu Declaration. It represents the real revolution, recapturing not only real estate but people, which alone can make military victory in Viet Nam meaningful. Last week in 76 villages, scattered among all 43 provinces of South Viet Nam, the first post-Honolulu 59-man teams of "revolutionaries" were out to create Tau Nghias everywhere...
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...
...Gang. When a team fresh from Vung Tau in their black pajamas and black berets arrived in Binh Phuoc, an inland hamlet of rice and manioc farmers, they started from the ground up-and slowly-to win the confidence of the villagers. First project: drawing a crude map of the village, its homes and road accesses. They ate in the local restaurants as a means of getting acquainted, took guard duty at night, began a census, used part of their first paychecks to buy cigarettes to give away. Working in three-man cells, they visited huts during the day, passing...
...best measure of the promise of the new pacification effort is that the Viet Cong is worried-and reacting. In the village of Binh Nghia, the team from Vung Tau got off to a fast start thanks largely to the support of Police Chief Nguyen Van Lam, 35. After the villagers, many with blood ties to Viet Cong guerrillas, held a meeting in 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...