Word: zorthian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before he left for Guam. In a speech to the Tennessee state legislature at Nashville, Johnson revealed a top-to-bottom shakeup of the Saigon embassy staff that reached from Lodge-who had long been anxious to end his second stint in Viet Nam-to Information Chief Barry ("Zorro") Zorthian, whose psywar techniques have doubled the number of Viet Cong defectors coming across the lines. As replacements, Johnson named an entire new team (see box next page...
...They fight on," the President said of the South Vietnamese. "They fight for the essential rights of human existence, and only the callous or the timid can ignore their cause." From then on, however, the keynote was "construction" in Viet Nam-so much so that the President advised Barry Zorthian, U.S. Public Affairs Chief in Saigon: "Barry, every time I see a picture of a battle in the papers, I want to see a picture...
Fake Bonds & Palm Readers. Led by U.S. Information Chief Barry ("Zorro") Zorthian, 45, the 450 men of JUSPAO this year will spend $10 million on new tricks and techniques-three times as much money as was spent on psywar a year ago. The mark of Zorro was evident last week in the village of Phung Hiep, a district capital in the Mekong Delta where a South Vietnamese "rural spirit" drama troupe was busy maligning Red China and Ho Chi Minh. In between propaganda skits, the troupe sang classical Vietnamese ballads, and played boogie-woogie...
...feel that the long run interests and desires of the Vietnamese are incompatible with the aims of Vietnamese Communism. The Viet Cong is not as popular as some groups would have us belive. On this topic, Barry Zorthian, head of the USIA in Vietnam said, "Every bit of evidence we have points to an underlying truth-that if the peasant has a choice, he prefers the government's side in this war. The real hold the Viet Cong have over most of the countryside is through terrorism...