Word: vinh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...villagers were members of the Popular Self-Defense Forces, a civilian militia movement that is fast taking hold in the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Binh. Despite the search for peace, the fighting in Viet Nam continues, and as always, civilians are heavily involved. In the long history of the war, many things have been tried to make effective use of civilians - strategic hamlet enclaves, the regional and popular forces, which are a uniformed militia based in their home area and thus more familiar with local conditions than regular South Vietnamese or U.S. troops. But few past programs seem...
...added up, the dimensions of South Viet Nam's losses since Tet become clear: 14,300 civilians dead, 24,000 wounded, 72,000 houses destroyed, 627,000 new refugees. Of the 35 cities hit, ten suffered major damage: Kontum, Pleiku, Ban Me Thuot, My Tho, Ben Tre, Vinh Long, Chau Doc, Can Tho, Saigon and Hue. CORDS officials estimate that 13 of the country's 44 provinces were so badly hit that pacification has been set back to where it stood at the beginning of 1967. In an additional 16 provinces, it will take three to six months...
...Vinh Long '68 is a Vietnamese student at Harvard who tried to make a dent in Washington earlier this month. He came away quietly disillusioned...
...says he is optimistic because he was earlier able to get more than a dozen signatures in a few days. "But the possibility of punishment makes it difficult," he admitted. Long's own passport is up for renewal in May. He wants to go to graduate school here.NGO VINH LONG '68, Vietnamese student at Harvard, earlier this month confronted his country's ambassador to the United States with an anti-war statement--the first public statement against U.S. policy by Vietnamese students...
...honest officers in the Vietnamese army. He replaces General Nguyen Van Manh, a portly, indecisive officer who has presided over the steady disintegration of the government's Delta position. In II Corps, which comprises the Central Highlands, General Lu Lan, a respected combat officer, took over from General Vinh Loc, a relative of deposed Emperor Bao Dai, who had earned himself the sobriquet "Lord of the High Plateau." And, in an effort to remove some of the temptations of leadership, Thieu last week decided that henceforth province chiefs would report directly to Saigon rather than to their corps commanders...