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...only one in five is completely under Viet Nam control. Many tiny villages live in terror of the Communists, pay them tribute in rice and young recruits. How to cut off these villages from Communist influence is a problem which has long occupied northern Viet Nam Governor Nguyen Huu Tri. After long study he settled on a scheme successfully adopted by the British in Malaya-resettlement of peasants in protected villages. Fruitlessly he tried to talk the French military command into a three-part plan to 1) regroup scattered villages into strong farmers' communities; 2) transform communal militias into...
...Governor Tri took his plan to the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, and last month got a grant of 7,000,000 piastres ($340,000) to give it a try. Said MSA Director Frederic P. Bartlett: "It's a calculated risk, a useful experiment of French, Vietnamese and American cooperation...
...first protected settlement, Governor Tri chose Dong Quan, 55 miles south of Hanoi. A 300-acre patch of land surrounded by waterways, in the midst of thickly populated ricelands, Dong Quan is ideally located for defense as well as for village commerce. Within six months, 1,000 Viet Nam peasant families (about 10,000 people) will be brought in from 25 surrounding villages. The farmers will still work their old fields by day, but at night they will sleep in the town under protection of a strong Viet Nam militia. The plans for Dong Quan include a Christian church...
...Texas, and small-craft warnings were flying along the coast. But the weather was expected to remain well within the "limits of operating conditions" for the four-engined DC-6. Its captain, Ernest A. Springer, was a 44-year-old veteran of airline operation. National had safely flown the tri-city route 9,978 times...
...content of the films is not worth the resulting headache. Besides the effective cartoons, there is an explanation of the "Tri-Optic technique and a tedious British travelogue. After a long and enjoyable intermission, the showing resumes with the flickering Sadler Wells ballet. Often in these latter pictures, a dimension is misplaced and the scenes appear flat and ordinary. More research and better material are necessary to change Tri-Optic films from an experiment to entertainment...