Word: vietcong
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Newsweek reports that guerrillas terrorize only prominent officials and pro-government zealots. According to Newsweek, the Vietcong has a flat rule: no liberation soldier (i.e., guerrilla) may mistreat a peasant. Rape or stealing by a guerrilla is punishable by execution. Food must be paid for. Anything borrowed must be returned or replaced. Time magazine reported a Vietnamese peasant as saying, "The Vietcong come into your fields and work with you . . . the Vietcong live like us, look like us, share our homes. How can we inform on them...
...terminate aid to her country, the $500 million annual bounty ought to be ended and American forces withdrawn unless she and her relatives are reformed or replaced. Continued U.S. aid under present conditions virtually assures complicity in a major calamity. Predictions that the present Diem government will conquer the Vietcong guerrillas are fantasy; hopes for anything better than defeat are generously optimistic...
After the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff reported to the President on their recent mission to South Vietnam, the White House issued a statement saying that the military program against the "externally stimulated and supported insurgency of the Vietcong" has made progress and "is sound in principle." Most news reports confirm that the military situation in certain areas has improved in the last one or two years. Nevertheless, neither these reports nor the White House statement answer the question put to Assistant Secretary of Defense Arthur Sylvester during the fact-finding mission: What...
...Vietcong receive some support from North Vietnam, but not enough to keep them alive and expanding in the face of government forces at least ten times as numerous. The fiercest fighting is south of Saigon, hundreds of miles from the North Vietnamese border and the end of the Ho Chi Minh trail, the supposed supply route. Even the American commander in the country, General Paul D Harkins, has conceded that the Vietcong are virtually self-sustaining...
...serious of unsuccessful coups, however, could divert effort and attention entirely away from the war against the Vietcong, argue those in the U.S. government who oppose the removal of Diem. They also argue that it might be impossible to find a successor able to unite the country in the fight against the Vietcong. This argument unintentionally constitutes a strong case against any American military commitments in South Vietnam, for it says that the people there are not determined to eradicate the Vietcong. If this is true, the United States will soon be the main opponent of the insurgents. Already...