Third. the increasing effectiveness of the Vietnamese Government in carrying out the pacification program. starting with the special 3 months "accelerated pacification campaign" of NovemberDecember 1968 and January 1969. Formerly pretty much an American program. the Vietnamese Government has now taken on this program as its own. The most striking corroboration of progress in pacification. as the New York Times article indicates. is through the improvement of road seculity and the return of tens of thousands of refugees to their hamlets of origin. The article speaks of these people as "leaving the Communistcontrolled areas and moving into those more or less under Government control." Actually. these people left Communistcontrolled areas in most cases 4 or 5 years ago and are now moving back to their own hamlets in areas over which the Government has recently taken control from the Communists. I ask unanimous consent that the article be printed in the RECORD.
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