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...would hope not. Politically, the South Vietnamese have got to create a government that commands the loyalty and support of the bulk of the population and galvanizes it into selfhelp. I hope that American troop withdrawals will be at such a rate as not to generate a sense of insecurity in the government of South Viet Nam. There must be sufficient time for the South Vietnamese to be trained to stand up and fight for themselves. If they can't, well. . . that's that...
...American servicemen stationed abroad, more than half (538,500) are in Viet Nam. Last week President Nixon ordered 14,900 back home from other overseas bases, or 1.5% of the total. Apart from Viet Nam, these are the heaviest troop concentrations...
...lowest level of combat activity in Viet Nam for a long time, possibly the whole war." Since the severity of enemy activity has been one of Washington's stated criteria for reducing U.S. forces, Rogers' remarks might be the prelude to an announcement of a second American troop cutback...
...Communists promptly take the land away from the landowners and give it to the peasants. In many cases, the Viet Cong are able to keep the support of the peasants by warning that a return of government forces would mean a return of the landlords. Faced with U.S. troop withdrawals and possible early elections in which the vote of the hamlets may well be decisive, South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu now has produced a land-reform program that attempts to beat the Communists at their own game...
Port Neches is a bleak Gulf Coast industrial town that is also intensely religious. On Sundays, most of its 10,000 inhabitants troop loyally to one or another of the town's 35 churches; some have so much fundamentalist fear of the Lord that they respectfully refer to Jesus as "Mr. Christ." The shared excitement over the phenomenon has brought blacks and whites together in a proximity unusual for Port Neches; but the two races sometimes differ on what they see. One white farmer, who claims that he has taken some 25 photographs showing images of "the Christ Child...