Word: ued
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legal counsel to Reies Lopez Tijerina and his Alianza Federal De Pueblos Libres, discussed the history of the land grants issue in New Mexico, tracing the laws concerning them from Spanish Colonial times, through the United States' aggressive actions on Mexico in 1845-1848, the Santa Fe Ring, the U. S. government's Court of Private Land Claims, up until the present. "Whereas the Indian still owns some of his land, the Chicano population, in one way or the other, has lost nearly all the land rightfully belonging to him," Higgs said...
...relocation campaign, called "Gathering the People" by Region II Commanding General Ngo Dzu, has been opposed from the start by some U. S. officials in Saigon and in the field who fear that concentrating thousands of Montagnards near main roads threatens the economic self-sufficiency of Montagnard communities...
...U. S. War Victims Directorate in Saigon has officially opposed such relocations as contrary to the interests of the people. But Ambassador William Colby, Chief of Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) in Vietnam, has given his approval to the move, and it is now being rushed to completion with U. S. logistical and relief assistance...
General Dzu ordered all Province Chiefs in Region II late last summer to eliminate all Montagnard hamlets rated C and D (contested and Viet Cong controlled hamlets) by relocating them near lines of communication. Senior U. S. officials in the provinces defend the relocation on the grounds that it will deny the population and resources of Montagnard hamlets to the Viet Cong...
...U. S. officials in Saigon and in the provinces say that when General Dzu ordered the move last summer, he ignored established regulations requiring the submission of detailed plans both for the movement and for the economic and social welfare of the relocated population. Without prior planning, these sources say, Dzu began the move during the Autumn harvest season, leaving relocated hamlets without their rice supply for the remainder of the year. He stopped the relocation until the end of the harvest only in October after Deputy Director of CORDS for Region II, Edward T. Long, wrote a personal letter...