Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CURRENT "anti-corruption campaign" in South Vietnam may be the final and fatal development in the Thieu regime's two-year struggle for increased American military and economic aid. The struggle has been littered with deceptions--between Vietnamese officials and American intelligence groups, and between these groups and Congress...
...brother-in-law, has built houses and acquired land with government money, and has profited from the distribution of scarce rice in famine areas. He has also been accused by Catholic priests of smuggling drugs. Father Thanh, a conservative Catholic, stated at a recent anti-administration rally that South Vietnam needs a clean government so "our allies will trust us" and send aid and investments...
...well with Congressmen, who are increasingly skeptical about U.S. Ambassador Graham Martin's pleas for more weapons. Martin is shifting his position, calling for aid which will induce "economic takeoff." In order to achieve this, Thieu's trusted minister Hoang Nha explained to U.S. officials last March 30, "South Vietnam would need some $700 million in economic aid from the U.S. each year until 1980, at which point it could get along with $80 to $90 million...
...nationally-based economy is possible without dependence on PRG-controlled areas, and the gigantic Saigon army, bureaucracy, and urban refugee population are also impressive obstacles to postwar reconstruction. According to the Vietnam Resource Center in Cambridge, "What the Saigon regime and the World Bank have in mind is not a nationally-based economy but a foreign-based one...where labor and natural resources such as timber and sea-products can be cheaply exploited." The army bureaucracy and refugees could then serve as pools of cheap labor...
...House Committee on Foreign Affairs reported in July that "if the U.S. is going to continue to provide economic and military assistance to South Vietnam it makes no sense to exclude incentives for private American companies to invest in that country. The stimulation of private investment is needed to help South Vietnam's movement toward economic self-sufficiency as well as to cushion reductions in grant assistance programs." Corporations have not, however, been scrambling for these incentives because of Thieu's aggression against the PRG which, if anything, has made investment seem much less attractive...