Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cong and that desertions from the Communist bands will rise. An important gain would be in intelligence. For years, peasants kept their mouths sealed for fear of having their throats cut by the Communists. But if the strategic hamlets and the self-defense forces can end the Viet Cong terror, the peasants will be far more willing to give information to the side that looks like the winner...
...hearts and minds of the people." The hearts and minds do not come cheaply, because so much has been promised them -by both the Viet Cong and Diem's government-that their level of expectation is relatively high. Basically, they do not want night raids and terror from the Communists, but neither do they want widespread conscription in the Vietnamese army or forced labor on government roads and fortifications. What they do need desperately is medical care, maternity and pediatric clinics, educational opportunities, and such practical items as water pumps...
...rulers practice dictatorship while preaching democracy. On paper, the Soviet Union has a model constitution, guaranteeing all citizens freedom of speech and assembly, a free press, and equality under the law. In fact, as intended by Joseph Stalin, who introduced the constitution at the height of his reign of terror in 1936, it is a meaningless document because the Kremlin can and does ignore it at will...
...should be recognized for what it was: "Confidential hints are being communicated to every newspaper that the Russian troops are marching to the frontier . . . These, and a lot of similar reports, are nothing but so many ridiculous attempts on the part of the Russian agents to strike a wholesome terror into the Western world...
...terror worked, and Marx railed against the fears of the West. "Counting on the cowardice and apprehensions of the Western Powers," he wrote in an article about Czar Nicholas I, "he bullies Europe, and pushes his demands as far as possible . . . If, at the outset, [England and France] had proved that bluster and swagger could not impose on them, the Autocrat would have for them a very different feeling from that contempt which must now animate his bosom...