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363-07685 to 363-07691
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Title
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Article about the plans announced in the Honolulu Declaration by Vice President Humphrey
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Description
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Keever's title: "Vice President Humphrey gives Viet's applied [?] pacification program," article about the pacification program plans announced in the Honolulu Declaration by Vice President Humphrey, for the New York Herald Tribune
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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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(MORGAN GANDY)
SAIGON 09210 (UPIS) The arrival of Vice President Hubert HHH.
HAS
Humphrey on perhaps the most significant mission since taking office-
is awaited here with some
eagerness but greater skepticism.
The far-reaching ann plans announced in the Honolulu
Declaration which the Vice President is to launch off the rice дx
paddies have all been heard too many times by Vietnamese religious,
HI FACE
political, mi and civic leaders to be accepted without proporitionate
DALVE
Tutar 1 ormance.
The Vice President has been assigned the task of giving aye
new look--or new direction--to aye vital side of the war that has
become increasingly pnarled by inefficienty, petty jealous, and
Hmong
mounting corruption amonst the Vietnamese officials and bitter
Among
Zine
ine inter-agency fighting amongst American bureaucrats.
(More Malloy--ED)
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first add-morgan gandy-saigon
X X X american bureaucrits
This vital side of the war is currently called pacification, or rural
construction, or more generally, by Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge-
nation-buildings
IF
is an attempt to win
subversive political
Is the Communistsho are the Organiz
battles with the Communists as well as military ones.
the
War-
even American generals admit this--and
the Communists'
to dictatorial
SO MUCH
party machinery is met on the American side by such inter-agency
in-fighting that one Western diplomat moaned recently, "This isn't
so much an American war. It's
AN
American civil war,"
(More MalloyBD)
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x x x civil war x XX.
In one glaring current example, the American Central Intelligence
S
Agency refused to sit on a coordinating council in the Marine Corps
enclave of Danang along with the other aniUnistates agencies--
Unistates Agency for International Development,
Joint Unistates
Public Affairs Office, the American Military Command (representing
General William C. Westmoreland), the American Embassy-and the
Marines who are dying on the frontlines only five miles from the city.
Even the ser senior colonel representing the Military Command.
snubbed the coordinating council-and sent his deputy instead. And
then, the Marines complained that the Public Affairs Officer was
leaking "almost subversive, anti-Marine" information to foreign
correspondents.
(More Malloy-BD)
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x x x foreign correspondents x
On the Vietnamese side,
incident happened recently.
one humorous, but rather startling
Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky_sent aye
special envoy to one of his corps commanders to settle one key government
CORPS Comm Ander got MAD Ad
problem. But, the speci
M
escaped arrest
Commander sent troops into Prime Minister
Ky's office to arrest the envoy,
WHO
quickly fled by
scrambling over the concrete wall lash this week, the corps
the PRIME ministER'S E
commander summoned by radio for a special trial before x aye field
military court.
This endless intrigue and counter-intrigue by the Vietnamese
officialdom, however, is taking on
as corps commanders
are
MORE Serious
greater proportions
again whinkingbireixprovorommehifa
attempting whirlwind changes of their 43 province chiefs.
Even
-20,000 American, Korean
as the greatest allied operation of the war-2
and Vietnamese troops--attempted to rout the Communists from Binh
Competent
Dinh province, reliable sources reported that both the Vietnamese
ABLE
province chief and his deputy for security were being
on the whims of their superiors.
fired #
(More Malloy--BD)
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OFTEN
x x x their superiors. ***
F
American provincial officials have long expressed the believe
that fe changes of Vietnamese province chiefs lose at least
six months of ex effective time in prosecuting the war.
The need for nation-building, for aye progressive, dynamic
non-Communist social revolution, has been seen for years--and pi
hammom chunks of plans for it have long existed.
Under the
Diemx regime of Ngo Dinh Diem,
program of "strategic hamlets" which were supposed to be havens
there was an ambituou ambitious.
of peace and models of prosperity.
The architect of the plan, Diem's
broth opium-smoking brother, heralded them as the "
"true social, economic and political revolution."
His aim was to
beat the Communists by adopting their methods and applying them more
effectively--with American funds.
There were then progressive plans to clear vast tracts of
jungled land and give title to the tillers of the soil. On the urban
front, ambitious programs to build low-cost housing paid on the
PEOPLE
installment plan for the "black laborers" of the cities were drawn up.
But lack of administration, embezzelment of American funds
(each village had a rural health worker supposedly paid sixhundred
piastres a month--unistates eight dollars--but both the health workers
and American officials i said that the salaries were never paid)
PUINED
and statistical juggling acts brought the program to grinding halt once
diem was overthrown in november, 1963.
(More Malloy--BD)
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x x x november, 1963 x x =
Of the twelve thousand hamlets in the country, notrptnot more than
eight thousand were secured under the diem era,
and when diem fell
the number slipped to less than two thousand. One of the first
small-scale pilot projects on strategic hamlets was initiated
in february nineteen sixtytwo, in cu chi district only fifteen miles
outside of saigon. today, four years her, later, the area
S
Os protected by An American brigade. The first large-scale
pilot case wa s called Operation Sunrise, only thirty miles from
YET
Saigontoday two American brigades operate in the same area.
After Diem, the Ministry of Pacification took over,
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then
the Ministry of Rural Reconstruction and then the Forg
more positive-sounding name of Ministry of Rural Construction.
But, last year, the mounting Viet Cong-North Vietnamese military
pressure coupled with the fact that the province chief/did notrptnot
漬けていて
receive
Strang LED
s yearly pacification budget until august--ala virtually
BEFORE it WAS REBORN Q
d the program
(More Malloy BD)
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sixth add-morgan gandy-saigom
x x xgentle halt x x x.
This year,
FIRST
the Ministry of Rural Construction met their January one
deadline for plans and budgetting. It was a major achievement--
CELEBRA?
TREN.
and they held a wild pa
But, many more achievements will be
necessary in the future to defeat the Communist "Organization Man."
(Endit-alloy-BD)
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Date
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1966, Feb. 9
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Humphreys, Herbert; Vietnam (Republic)--Politics and government; United States. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam. Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support; Psychological warfare
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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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B188, F3
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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
