You need only go out in the countryside to see the failure of the succession of South Vietnamese governments to win the peoples loyalty. Go to the upriver village of Dien Ban. about ten miles south of Danang. our great northern base in Quang Nam Province. You can get in safely only by helicopter. Here. American marines have to wear their flak vests in the road just outside their walled compound. This area has been fought over for years. there is still fighting every day. If the refugees were resettled in the countryside. officials fear. they would join the Vietcong. I visited Dien Ban with the chief of the pacification program. Ambassador William G.
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