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363-04197 to 363-04205
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Title
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Article about women in the Việt Cộng
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Description
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Original title: "women", Keever's title: "Toting a 65-Pound Mini-Gun: Communist Women in Combat." Article draft about Vietnamese women acting as guerilla forces and nurses for the Việt Cộng. Written for the Christian Science Monitor
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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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women 1 (normass/deepe)
SAIGON, APRIL 29--The Communists are using more and more women for
combat and combat-support missions in South Vietnam, reliable sources report.
Recent Communist directives reportedly urge pro-Communist women to "foster hatred"
in the cities and towns, indicating that women may be used to spearhead the next
phase of Communist attempts to political attempts to spark urban disturbances.
In Long An province, south of Saigon, a recent American air-mobile
operation killed two women guerrillas and captured six others on the battlefield.
unted from an American helicopter, if
"One was toting a 65-pound mini-gun
you can feature that," a U. S. Army officer explained.
Outside the resort city of Dalat,
s
Viet Cong company charged
AND LATE
Ho
and battered a
EAS
miles north of Saigon, an all-woman
sized Vietnamese government
p outpost, killing among others an American advisor and the brother of a
Vietnamese general."
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cements.
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women 2 (normass/deepe)
In Gia Dinh province,
the donut surrounding Saigon,
take a 15-day first ai
the Viet Cong are
o aid course-
reportedly enso urging local women to
taught either at U. S.-supplied government dispensaries or else in a remote
Viet Cong base area. After the course the first-aid women would serve with
Viet Cong regional or guerrilla forces in their home areas.
women porters are being organized to carry ammunition and
reliable sources indicate.
Several days ago,
Also, in Gia Dinh,
supplies into the
Saigon area,
woman cadre was caught smuggling B-40 rocket ammunition into Saigon
amidst her cabbages in a three-wheeled
motorized Lambretta.
a Viet Cong
st hidden
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women 3 (normass/deepe)
Many of the thousands of bar-girls in Vietnam are considered to have
C pro-Communist ein leanings and are important in gathering intelligence
information. One Vietnamese-speaking American Embassy officer recently recalled
e entering a bar in the resort city of Vung Tau. He told the bargirls he was
a Polish officer serving the International Control Commission. To his
amazement,
"the girls left the b tables of American GI's and began asking me
if I could get them on a plane to Hanoi," he said.
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women 4 (normass/deepe)
The increased importance of woman-power by the Communists is often used
by Allied commanders as evidence that the Viet Cong av are facing difficulties
in recruiting sufficient manpower in the South. But, on the other side of the
coin, Communist radio broadcasts laud this development and use it as evidence
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indicating all elements of the Vietnamese population are am a-massing being
massed in the people's war" to fight the Allied soldiers and the South Vietnamese
government.
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women 5 (normass/deepe)
called
The pro-Communist women are organized into an association,
the South Vietnam's Women's Liberation Association Association,
which is a part of the National Liberation Front for South Vietnam,
commonly called the Viet Cong. The women's Association now claims a
membership of more than two million under the chairmanship of Mrs.
Nguyen Thi Đinh,
female deputy commander of the Viet Cong
Last month, on March 8,
famous
and a member of the NLF's Presidium.
the Women's Association celebrated its seventh anniversary with a
militant call from its Central Standing Committee uring membe
in the cities and towns and to
urging members to "foster hatred"
The
"use all types of weapons to kill the enemy" in rural areas.
Central Committee also reportedly urged its members to continue
"to surge forward on all battlefronts," and instructed all echelons
of the Association to "state po "stage political, armed, and military
proselyting struggles against the enemy."
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women 6 (normass/deepe)
A document issued by the U. S. Mission in Saigon said that
individual members of the Women's Association were expected to achieve
the "five goods,"
which are: 1. to push forward political struggle
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and agitation work among puppet soldiers, 2. to increase production
and practice thrift; 3. to join the people's militia and the guerrillas
to annhiliate the U. S.
to do
aggressors and their lackeys; 4.
good work in the rear; to replace the men in all branches of
activity; 5. to consolidate the Association and rally Southern
women belonging to all social strata in the resistance against U. S
aggression for national salvation."
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women 7 (normass/deepe)
The scope of women's activities during the Communist Tet offensive
was revealed in a captured document en issued on November 20, 1967,
-eating outlining the women's responsibilities in Binh Dinh
EAST
The
The
young men and women to join
get ready to work as
transport food supplies,
minister to the sick.
province 50 miles north of Saigon) during December and January,
and culminating with the January 30th Tet attacks into the cities,
According to the per captured document, women's activities
during the two months would be geared to meet four requirements.
first was the mobilization of women to serve the frontline.
women were directed to "educate and motivate"
the Assault Youth Movement; motivate women to
civilian laborers to serve on the battlefields,
assume liaison missions, evacuated the wounded,
By December 10, 1967, each village was ordered to have "activated a
ploh platoon of female civilian laborers working on a fit full-time
basis." Women were also to be motivated to perform rear service duties,
each city precint
collect and purchase food supplies for the Viet Cong,
precinct and village would have afv activated a women's cell in charge
of collecting funds for the revolution. In addition,
"all our
WASO
women must motivate their husbands, brothers and sons to join the te
army in order to kill the enemy and save our country...and within the Women's
Associations women must actually replace men in the rear areas so that
more men can leave for the frontline.
the documen
warfare movement.
"We must further develop the role of our women, on the military front,
especially in the guerrilla
"We must actively mobilize
women to join the village and hamlet guerrilla forces. By the end of
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December, 1967, we must have met the prescribed quota,
which means that
female guerrillas should account for 50 per cent or more of the guerrilla
strength in the lowlands and 12 per cent in the moutainous areas.
and
Concurrently, efforts will be made to recruit, train and guide our women
to fight well and kill many enemy troops with ordinary, crude,
home-made weapons."
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women 8 (normass/deepe)
The second broad requirement involved tasks to be performed by
women in the cheek cities, provinces and government-controlled areas.
More female underground cadre were to be introduced into the urban areas.
"must have recruited and
Within a month, the women at the provincial level
trained 15 legal cadre and 30 agents," the instructions read, and at
district level, the women "must have recruited and trained ten
the
legal cadre and introduced them into o district town and pivotal areas.
Also, organizing from three to five members into a cell,
greater efforts to propagandize, educate, mobilize and organize the women
in the cities, provinces and government-controlled areas.
were to organize into propaganda assault teams,
the
f women,
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women must make
Women
consisting of three to five
to carry out propaganda tasks at large market placex places.
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women 9 (normass/deepe)
The third broad requirement involved the women's
struggle and what the Communists call
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political
troop and civilian
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soldiers and
proselyting tasks"--to wear, down the will of gevement
pro-government elements in population and discourage them from
All levels of the women's
continuing to fight the Viet Cong.
associations were urged to step up these activities, especially
a so
in the cities, provinces and government-controlled areas as a means
to "break up the enemy control, consolidate our ranks to get ready to
take to the streets, and coordinate with the people in cities and
provinces to rise up in revolts to ap cecomparty accomplish our
mission." Hence, the women were fa spearheading element for the general
women in all the villages,
uprising of the people. Within three weeks time,
precincts and marketplaces "must have succeeded in organizing a
nucleus consisting of three to five political struggle and troop and
The women
civilian proselyting cells," the instructions read.
were ordered to "strive to subvert enemy soldiers and officers,
disrupt the major elements of the pet puppet army (South Vietnamese army)
and a great part of the American and South Korean forces,
morale and organizations, stage uprisings,
the enemy's conscription program."
undermine their
and concurrently oppose
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women 10 (normass/deepe)
The fourth teks task involved a fastidious plan for strengthening
the women's associations, promoting the ideology through study sessions
Within three won weeks, at least h
and recruting new personnel.
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one-half of the number of villages shall have consolidated their organizations
from cell level and up," the instructions read. Each cell in the
liberated area must have from five to eleven members and must have one
cell leader and two assistant cell leaders.
The cell leader is in
while the other
charge of the troop and civilian proselyting task,
assistant cell leader is in charge of the women's, living conditions and
their four dut
For cells whim have from three to seve
cell members,
duties.'
there will be only one cell leader and one assistant
cell leader....We must closely reorganize our cell activities so t
In the libere liberated areas, we must,
as to make them effective.
bet een now and the end of December, 1967,
recruit and admit
70 per cent of the women of voting age into the Women's Liberation
Association.
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women 11 (normass/deepe)
(Hank:
Please relay to Saville Davis that Doctor Dan
is now in the United States and is hoping to see him in Washington,
May nine is
We have relayed Sve Saville's message to Dan's family.
fine for the zoopagor; I think that piece will hold up for some time,
even are if a talk site is selected before it is published.
you decided about the soliloquy piece sont April 20th?
What have
I'm not sure if this women's piece is news or women's news,
it is rather significant, though it will
This week, wo will file several
security and politicald situation.
but
hold up for awhile, I believe.
articles on the saigon
Regards Bov).
end reuter
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Date
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1968, Apr. 29
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Subject
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Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam; Military nursing; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Women soldiers--Vietnam; Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam--Nurses; Women in war
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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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B10, F21
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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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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
