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32. Ibid., p. 54
33. The following documents, among others, reflect early peasant
objections to the agroville program. Gravel, The Pentagon Papers,
Vol, I, p, 312-313; Grinter, pp 54-55; Bernard B. Fall, The Two
Vietnams (New York, London. Frederick A. Praeger, 1964), p, 310;
Zasloff, p. 21; also John C. Donrnell, "Politics in South Vietnam:
Doctrines of Authority in Conflict" (unpublished Doctoral dissertation,
Univ. of California at Berkeley, 1964), p. 187.
34. Gravel, The Pentagon Paper-, Vol I, p. 313.
35. Grinter, p. 54.
36. Gravel, The Pentagon Papers, Vo'. I, p. 313. Others, listed below,
concluded that 23 of the original 80 Agro\illes were nearing completion
when the program was halted -- 32,000 out of the 43,000 people
(who actually moved) stayed, far short of the planned-for total of
500,000 people. See Nguyen Dang, Viet-Namf Politics and Public
Administration (Honolulu. East-West Center Press, 1966), p. 158;,
Duncanson, p. 261; Nguyen Khoc Nhan, "Policy of Key Rural Agrovilles",
Asian Culture, Vol. III, No. 3-4 (July-Dec., 1961): 28-49; and
Grinter, p. 54.
37. W. Scott Thompson & Donaldson D. Frizzel, eds. The Lessons of Vietnam
(New York: Crane, Russak & Co., 1977), pp. 222-223.
38. Gen. Tran Dinh Tho, ARVN. Pacification, Indochina Refugee Authored
Monograph Program. Prepared for the Department of the Army, Office of
tl.e Chief of Military History (McLean, VA., General Research Corp,
October, 1977), p. 11.
39. Tran Dinh Tho, p. 12.
40, Gravel The Pentagon Papers, Vol. I, p. 313.,
41. Tran Dinh Tho, p. 12.
42. Sir Robert Thompson, Defeatiny Communist Insurgency (New York:
Praeger, 1966), pp. 121-140.
43. Tran Dinn Tho, p. 12.
44. Fee Grinter, p. 55; as well as John Mecklin, Mission io Torment
(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1965), p. 45; and :,ravel The Pentagon
Papers, Vol II, pp. 50-51.
45. Blaufarb, p. 106.
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