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...government's forced draft urbanization program--a program which left the Vietnamese countryside defoliated and riddled with 30-foot-wide bomb craters. Saigon's population skyrocketed from 450,000 to nearly four million by the time we left. Three million South Vietnamese were left unemployed. Many had worked for Thieu's army or civil bureaucracy, or in American-financed factories processing American raw materials. Two hundred thousand Vietnamese women had become prostitutes, while perhaps as many as three million adult Vietnamese had contracted venereal disease...
...nine months since North Viet Nam's Russian-built T-54 tanks rumbled through the gates of former President Nguyen Van Thieu's palace...
There has been no evidence of the massive bloodbath that many Americans predicted would follow the collapse of the Thieu regime, and no tales to match the stories of mass executions being brought out of Cambodia by refugees from the Khmer Rouge in Phnom-Penh. Nonetheless, the new Communist government has taken some tough measures to discourage resistance. A few wealthy Chinese-traditional scapegoats of the Vietnamese-have been executed. Summary executions of petty criminals and looters have served as warnings that disorder will not be tolerated, though thievery and muggings still take place. Attacks on North Vietnamese troops continued...
...Class Day Committee invites Senator Robert Byrd to speak at Commencement after the seniors' first two choices, Ambassador George Bush and Nguyen Van Thieu, both decline. "Let me put it this way," says Class Day chairman Ron Wade, "The Senator is no prize, but a Byrd in hand is worth Thieu and Bush...
...policy of hostility, balkanization and internal problems remaining from the Thieu regime have led Vietnam to move faster toward reunification," he said...