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Digital Object Identifier
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363-06490 to 363-06495
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Title
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Article about the strategic plateau bordering Laos
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Description
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Original title: "montagnard", Keever's title: "Montagnard Tribes Are South by U.S., South Vietnamese Government", article about the strategic plateau bordering Laos and the Montagnards there
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Draft transcripts were automatically generated via Google Document AI and are currently under review. Please report significant errors to Archives & Special Collections at archives@unl.edu.
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october 1, 1965
SAIGON High-ranking Vietnamese officers fear an American
political take-over in the strategic plateau bordering Laos following
the recent arrival of the 15,000-man First Air Cavalry Division.
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October 1, 1965
As the Americans dramatically expanded their military power
in the strategie highland area, the military contex contest immediately
was set between the elite First Air Cavaly Calvar Cavarly Division,
mi
bases and
supported by Vietnamese government forces, against the Viet Cong
who use the glan jungled Highlands as infiltration routes
from North Vietnam. Unlike other x areas where American combat
units have been based, however, a third paramilitary force
consiste of the indigenous me Montagnards, who have been trained
equipped and financed by the American Special Forces teams.
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A year ago, some of these American-trained and equipped Montagnard
tribesmen mutiniod in five military camps against their Vietnamese
superiors, massacred 31 Vietnamese and established a dissident
political movement called FRONT UNIFIER POUR LA LIBERATION DE LA RACE
meaning the Unified Front for the Liberation of the Oppressed Race.
OPPRIMEE (FULRO). As Vietnamese government officials threatened
to bomb their own tribal troops, the dissident movement was temporarily
two
BATTALIONS
folles mi
lled and until last month when Vietnamese Marine encircled
about
and forced the peaceful surrender of 300 of the armed Montagnard
dissidents. Two other armed dissident me units, howevor, evaded
This year, the name
government encirclement, and are still at large.
of the dissident movement was changed from the "Liberation of the Oppressed
Race"- Communist-soundie) name to "the Struggle for the Oppressed
Race."
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As the Americans expanded their military power in the
strategic highland area, the question immediately arose whether they
would also attempt to expand their political power--to gain increasing
control over the Montang Montagnard population.
Vietnamese government officials have during the past year
virtually charged that American officials are attempting to seize
political control of the Montagnard population and military command
of the jungled highlands, thus que squeezing the Saigon government
influence off the plateau and shrinking the authority of the Vietnamese
The tribal Montagnard tribesmen, who for years have
hated the Vietnemose, are friendly to both the American officials
and Am the Fronch plantation ormers, Catholi missionarios
who maintain a great deal of French cultural and economic influence
over the fontang primitive tribesmen.
commanders.
The Vietnamese government charges, dating back to last year's
rebellion, indicated that the Americans-sometimes the charges
included the Americans plus the French are hence inciting the
FULRO dissident movement to ask for an increasing number of demands from
the Vietnamese government--demands which would shrink the influence
of the Vietnamese government, such as appointment of Montagnard
commanders of Montangard irregular units, Montagnard province chiefs,
Montagnard to be included in the Saigon government administration.
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American officials, speaking officially, hotly deny this; a
I fow speaking in privato admit the American will eventually take direct
jt control of the Montagnards because the Vietnamese government
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is either unwilling or un incapb incapable of meeting their demands,
thus forcing the Montagnard population into the hands of the Commists.
The control of the Montagnard training p military training program has
been been a sore point between the Vietnamese government and the American
officials since the Americans first proposed training, and equipping the
Montagnards in 1962; President Ngo Dinh Diem refused to allow the arming
of the fontan Montagnards-even to fight the Communists coming across the
Ho Chi Minh infiltration routes-fearing that one day the Montagnards
would robot
He reluctantly
against his own contral governmont.
allowed the Americans Special Forces to train the Montagnards, but he
kept a personal watch on the program and Vietnamese Special Forces
commanders working with the Americans reportedly directly to the President.
Less than a year after Dion's fall in November, 1963, the rebel Montagnard
already
rebel movement he feared
was revolting against the new Saigon government.
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socond paragraph x x x reliable observers. X X
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on page five, third paragraph, first sentence delete part
beginning x x x the American military command x x x and replace with a
"The American Military command in gaigon la st August announced the
formation of Task Force Lay Alpha, which has since beg been increased
in # importance to a corps headquarters and re-named Headquarters
Field Forces. Had
This American corps headquarters would x x x
Continue with rost of article.
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Date
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1965, Oct. 1
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Montagnard (Vietnamese people); United States. Armed Forces; Vietnam (Republic)--Boundaries
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Location
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Saigon, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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10.8231; 106.6311
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Size
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20 x 26 cm
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Container
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B187, F6
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Format
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dispatches
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Collection Number
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MS 363
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Collection Title
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Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
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Creator
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Collector
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Copyright Information
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These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
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Publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Language
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English
