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Strategic Hamlets "New Life" Hamlets, they were later made a part of
the Rural Reconstruction Program within the general concept of the
Chien Thang national pacification plan. (See GVN Decree No. 64,
5 April 1965.) The name "Rural Reconstruction" continued until 30 July
1965, when Premier Ky renamed it "Rural Construction", and in Pebruary
1966, the American Mission began to refer to it as "Revolutionary
Development". See George K, Tanham, War Without Guns (New York:
Praeger, 1966), p. 35.
104.. The Pentagon Papers, Vol. II, p. 549.
105. Frances FitzGerald, "The Struggle and the War- The Maze of Vietnamese
Politics," Alartic, Vol. 220, No. 2 (August 1967): 84,
106., The Pentagon Papers, Vol. II, pp. 554-557.
107. General William C. Wstmoreland, 'USA, Retired), Interview at the BDM
Corp, McLean, Va. on Aigust 17, 1979,
108. General Maxwell D, Taylor, (USA, Retired), Interviewed at his
residence in Washington, D.C., on July 11, 1979.
109. DoD US/VN Relations, Book 6 of 12, IV. C. 11., pp, 74-74.
110. The PROVN Study, Supra note 11, was made available for review by the
US Army office of the Chief of Military History. Washington, D.C.
PROVN recommendea two major initiatives. (I' Creation of an organization
to integrate total US civil-military effort; and (2) the
exercise of greatly increased direct US involvement in GVN activities.
111, DoD US-VN Relations, Book 6, IV. C., 11., p. 74,
112., Walter Guzzardi, Jr., "Management of the War: A Tile of Two Capitals,"
Fortune, April 1967, p. 137.
113. Grinter, p, 59 and DoD US-VN Relations, Book 6, IV, C. 9(b), pp. 35-36,
114. DoD US-RVN Relations, Book 6, IV, C. 8, P, 55.
115. Robert Shaplen, The Road from War: Vietnam 1965-1970 (New York and
Evanston: Harper and Row, 1976), pp. 36-37.
116. Grinter, P. 60, points out that in 1956 the Diem Government had done
away witi village government and local initiative; and that in 1967
village chiefs and village councils were given new authority by the
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