This area has been under the complete domination of the Vietcong as far back as 1940. Recently. however. the Government has been able to win the people over to its side because of the terroristic and repressive nature of the Vietcong regime. The refugee problem we read about is just that. People are becoming refugees from Vietcong control. Very often when we think of refugees we think of people leaving their homes and traveling great distances. In Vietnam. a refugee may have come only 2 or 3 milesbut the difference in those 2 or 3 miles is that they are safe from Vietcong taxation. repression. and terrorism. American civilians. working for the State Department in our foreign AID program. are doing an outstanding job in helping these refugees build new lives outside the totalitarian regime of the Vietcong. I will long remember the day I visited the provincial capital of Answan and the village of Ca Mau. I was greeted at the airport by the province chief and all the local officials.
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