Word: vietcong
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...past thirty. And they claimed that Johnson and his supporters have shown little initiative in trying to halt inflation, race riots, and the war in Vietnam. Regarding Vietnam, the primaries did not show that most voters want the United States to abandon the struggle against Hanoi and the Vietcong. They merely want what Americans have wanted in the past: quick favorable results...
...created by these men-and by dozens of others, such as Jimmy Cotton, Otis Spann, Big Walter Horton, Johnny Shines and Homesick James Williamson-inevitably touch on everyday matters of Chicago ghetto life. Sometimes the lyric is as topical as a newspaper headline, as in Junior Wells's Vietcong Blues, about his brother in Viet Nam ("You know they say you don't have no reason to fight, baby,/ But Lord, Lord, you think you're right"). But social comment is only a faint note in the sound of Chicago blues. For the most part, the bluesmen...
William V. T. Knight, a special student in Bolcal Relations, will head one of those teams that will interview Vietcong defectors. Americans will lead the teams, but Vietnamese students will do the actual interviewing...
From the interviews, it is hoped that the researchers can draw an accurate picture of the average Vietcong defector. According to Knight, "If we know what a defector thinks, then we should be able to predict his behavior under certain circumstances. Then if we can duplicate those circumstances, perhaps more of them will come over to the government...
...defectors will be asked about their personal backgrounds and the circumstances that led them both to join and to defect from the Vietcong. Vietnamese students, rather than the Americans, are being used for the interviewing to avoid "contaminating" the information received, Knight said...