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Show DESERET The Other Viet War: Can Pacification Succeed? curate information a yet as to how badly the Revolutionary Development (RD; t'amv who spearhead pacification may have been mauled or dispersed in the fighting that raged through, out the country. Another result of the Viet Co1 attacks has been that in some cases areas secured' by the presence of South Vietnamese military units had to be left entirely unprotected so that the troops could be deployed to other, more important, defense positrons And what now 7 The one certainty is that the pacification program will resume with the best will that can be put into it. Eve'-yoninvolved in Vietnam accepts that military success is meaniglfss until and unless the allegiance of the South Vietnamese masses is won. The job to be done, in the words of Deputy Ambassador Robert W. Homer, "is essentially a process of converting people who are either on the fence or oriented toward the Viet Cong, to the government side. Komer heads the pacification program. Komer always makes the point that is 99 per cent Vietnamese pacification business. The United States, he says, just provides advice; we're also the n Great Decisions Of 1968: Part 5 National Education Television film subject will be shown Wednesday at 9 p.m. on Channel 7. A on this By DANIEL SOUTHERLAND V SAIGON IJPI) At the end of 1967 the U.S. agency in charge of the pacification program in South Vietnam the program to win the hearts and minds of the people issued a progress report By computer, the e.gency said, it had determined and was able to announce that 66.1 per cent of the people of South Vietnam, or 11,237,000, now lived in areas secure from the Viet Cong The other 39.9 per cent, or about 5,200,000 people, lived in arc's still either doonn- e- by or strongly inPuenced by the Obviously this accounting still left ne Vietns ns pacification program other war as it has been called with a long way to go, but it was the most encouraging assessment of this part of the Vietnam effort presented officially up to that time. Today this "count of areas and people made secure from the Communists has little meaning. It was negated, and the whole program stopped, by this years Viet Cong offensive. The Communists were quick jo claim that the pacification program had been shattered. The official Hanoi newspaper Nhan Dan on Feb. 16 boasted that the U.S. squandered millions of dollars on rural pacification, but within a short time it has come to a flop. There has been no official Inclination to minimize the disruption of the pacification effort by the Communist lunar New Year offensive. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey told the AFL-C10 e .(V - a ItVtSih' vh kMM -- j bankets. Vietnamese worker shares woman before Tet offensive stalled the entire program. U.S. soldier-pacificatio- lunch n executive council in Miami Beach, Fla., 19 tha on Feb. the Communist onslaughts did stop the pacification program. In Saigon it was acknowledged that the planned 1968 program had been, for the time being, shelved. The hreadth of the disruption caused by the Viet Cong was outlined in part by Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara to Congress on Feb. 1. In the central highlands of South Vietnan, he said, the Communists had suffered heavy casualties but were "still effective. In the heavily populated coastal areas the Viet Cong also had been punished severe- - with said the defense secretary but remained a for. ridable threat." In the vital Mekong Delta which grows most of the country's rice, McNamara said the Jy, Viet Cong forces had been cut down but had rot been completely destroyed. What this has meant is that many of South Vietnamese pacifithe black-cla- d cation cadres who had been working in the villages building wells, schools and market places, and caring for villagers needs, were chased out or killed in some places, or withdrawn in others to work in the cities helping with refugees or shifted to defense combat forces. There is no ac The banking is not inconsidetable. At the start of 1968 the annual cost was running at more than $500 million. There were, before the Viet Cong offensive began, American advisers in 222 of .South Vietnams 245 dstricts and in all 44 provinces. Most of the advisers at district level are military men. In addition there are about 400 civilians of other nations engaged in pacification work, from Australia, South Korea and The Philippines. Despite the best American and allied efforts, the future of pacification lies primarily with the performance of the Saigon government and army, which have yet to demonstrate the kind of leadership considered necessary to make military gains meaningful and pacification gains lasting. The situation has varied from province From Grinding Your Teeth To Keeping Cool THE MEDICAL PULSE By STEVE HALE Deseret News Medical Writer Instead of sticking to one subject today, lets ramble. First, did you know that perhaps SO, 000 Utah adults their teeth grind when ing? theyre sleep- make these rasping noises that resemble the sound of cracking nuts. g If youre old enough, youll remember quarantine signs. They warned visitors to stay away from homes because somebody inside had an infectious disease like smallpox, diphtheria or scarlet fever. Since that time, medicine has all but erased the serious problems of those dis- a high level of One indicator that this is the age of worry is that about 25,000 Utahns have Researchers have teeth-grindin- About a mil- health insurance Health the Insurance Institute protection, said. youngsters concluded night states populatior: The lion. It's more Even the most important Issue facing the world between now and the year 2,000. Abolishing war was listed second. At the end of 1966, 645,006 Utahns of 65 had health insurance. under the age that damages the teeth, occurs about a minute of every sleeping hour and no matter how loud the grinding noise gets, it doesnt wake the sleeper who'a making the racket. g doesnt seem to be associated with emotional disturbances, the researchers said. Teeth-grindin- ulcers. It recently released statistics are correct, about 20 new Utah cases may develop each dcy. But dont worry about It. eases. And ,lhe quarantine placards me lector's items these days. Persons with hemophilia particularly fear dental trouble. That's because a tooth extraction can cause severe loss of blood and perhaps a According to a poll of Americans, Britons, Italians, West Germans and Frenchmen, finding a cure for cancer is THE SKYWATCHER By HAROLD LUNDSTROM During March the sun again returns Richard Strauss the lutionary genius famous for his poems, operas, and songs, wrote very lit tle for the piano. His most Venus Is gradually releasing its dominating grip on the eastern skies at dawn. It remains quite bright, but by the end of the month will be rising only about an hour before sunrise. Saturn, in the western skies at sunset, Is undergoing much the same fate. It Is now in Pisces and by the end of die month will be too close to the sun to allow easy observation. Mara is still hanging n in the southwest and sets two hours after the sun. By the end of the month R will have moved from Pisces into Aries. Jupiter continues to be the dominating planet in the early evening skies. It will star Regulus on pass the fit the 5th. Jupiters direction of motion Is now westward because it is retrograding s it approach opposition. Mercury is again at greatest elongation this month (on the 12th). However, this is an unfavorable one and the planet will be less than 10 degrees above the horizon at sunrise. Furthermore, it will generally be hidden from the view of most observers by the south-easter- Utah Tuesday elongation sun. Thursday Wednesday 20 Full Moon, Spring begins ai 6:22 The title Burlesque sometime has misled pianists into rushing too hastily through its beautiful lyrical stretches. a.m. Thursday 21 Thursday 28 moon. Last-quart- er The Burleske is a concert piece with orchestra in one movement! (20 minutes long). It is filled with melody, fire, and bombast, and is not extravagantly difficult, but it is, nonetheless, effective and rewarding. In contrast to the Burwill be guest leske, Mr. Richter-Haase- r soloist In a performance of Schumann's lyrical Piano Concerto. Mercury at greatest West, 28 degrees from the 11 Symphony r c h estra el 12 New Moon. Richard Strauss was only 21 when he composed the Burleske, and, at the rime, was very much in the thrall ,of Brahms. He never wroto much piano music after this composition. Instead, his tv W yew a sumIIoa Btrtolnlnf to attranenw. Mnd It to tot SkywttciMr, cart 4 tot Daaarat Ntwa, e.o, lax 15S7, Salt Lata city. Utah 4111. It your wiattton la usad to tola eohmn, you will roeclvt tve traa ttekata to too Star Chambar Pr tram at to ttanaon Planttorlum. therefoie, Lcause it isnt typical Strauss on the surface, has never been very popular. But it is, neverthean less, entirely enjoyable piece on its own. And because it is the one really worth-whil- e example of Strauss piano writings, it deserves more than the occasional hearings it receives. Thanks are due Mr. Richter-Haase- r and Mr. Abravanel for letting us hear it. piano-orchestr- a and Mr. Richter-HaasAbrava-nMaurice Wednesday In the Tabernacle and Thursday in the Weber College Fine Arts Center in Ogden. O moon. r w man pianist, Hans R i c h te will play with the The calendar of astronomical events during March is as follows: 7 talents were to be directed toward the tone poems, the operatic shockers, Salome and Elektra. and, finally, toward song as exemplified in "Der Rosenkavalier. Burleske, work is the "Burleske that the Gerdistinguished The star chart shows the orientation the skies at 9 p.m. on March 15th. Thursday revo- nt There will be a partial eclipse of the sun on the 28th, but it will not be visible from the United States. First-quarte- OUR MUSICAL WHIRL piano n mountains. of Dr. Bernard L. Strehler of the University of Southern California said 20 years might be added to the average human life if body temperatures could be lowered from 98.6 degrees to S5 degrees. He said the side effects of lower body heat are unknown but the small change was well within the range of fluctuations we have all experienced. So keep cool. Deseret News Music Editor (1864-1949- to the northern hemisphere, and the season of spring once more descends on Utah. Since late December tiie sun has been steadily moving northward from the Tropic of Capricorn and, on March 20, will finally reach the equator at 6:22 a.m. At that moment the season of spring will officially begin and the sun will be located at the point in the sky known as the Vernal Equinox. In fact, the chapter will pay up to dental fees for hemophiliacs. Not only that, a dentist on the local chapter's board just returned from an institute on dental work for hemophiliacs. Hes Dr. E. T. Jensen. t Mrs. L. Howard Marcus, president of the chapter, said he is available for consultation with other dentists about dentistry for hemophiliacs. $8 in Above all, the Burleske survives, Indicating its musical worth. And this in spite of the admonition of Hans von Bulow, under whom young Richard Strauss was serving as assistant conductor of the Meiningen Orchestra at the time, that the score was unplayable. The remark caused the young composer to shrug the work off as a kind of misdemeanor, and even some years later to resist the blandishments of a publisher who had heard Eugen d'Alhert, to whom the piece is dedicated, play it. Strauss, by that time, felt he had grown so far from Burleske that publication of it would be embarrassing. But a few years later, he was able to regard it more fondly as an effort not without merit Burleske is, in truth, a vigorously attractive work in which most of the O" E ! 9 e p telu-gee- corruption has, in fart, been one of tne chief villains stalling pacification. When Vice President Humphrey visited the training center for pacification cadres at Vung Tau in 1967, he was told by the center's director, Major Nguyen Be, that corrupt district and a pi ovine officials were the main obstacles to government attempts to wtn over the people. Maj. Gen. Nguyen Due Thang, the respected deputy chief of staff and director of the pactftcanon cadres, recently resigned in frustration over what he called the government's failure to moe against corruption. He stressed the need for reforms of the army and the administral-tmn- , without which he said pacification could not succeed. One of Thang's rffoi Is was aimed at reducing the power of the four government army corps commanders who control the four regions info which the country is divided. It has been charged these commanders often act like war lords, selling province and district chiefs jobs to people who, in turn, exact tribute from their underlings who, for their part, exact bribes from the people. It was Thang's plan to take control of the province chiefs away from the corps commanders, making them directly responsible to the central government in Saigon. The chiefs of the 44 provinces are both administrative and military chiefs, with a standing somewhat roughly equivalent to that of state governors in the United States. All changes so far have been successfully resisted by the President and commanders, corps Nguyen Van Thieu has only cautiously suggested reforms. Thieu is thought to agree in principle with the need for reform in many areas of South Vietnamese official life, but apparently has hesitated to move too swiftly for fear of alienating his fellow generals. Saigon observers say Thieu needs the support of the gsnerals in what is regarded as his continuing power struggle with Nguyen Cao Ky, the former premier who became vice president In last years elections. Real power appears to rest still with the generals and little can be seen tq have been done to demilitarize the administration despite the armys widespread unpopularity among the people. Generals still hold key cabinet posts and the countrys mayors and province and district chiefs are all military men who receive their orders through the military chain of command rather than responding to the civilian government in Saigon. If the hearts and minds of the people really are to be won by the Saigon government, Americans here agree, the impetus must come from Thieu and Ky and their respective supporters and they must submerge their personal rivalries in the national interest. Americans in Saigon are of mixed opinions whether this will be done. & ft a t , 4 75 3 L' n k ii eta J If? H HO: alt o a O si m MtaJfcSNui Check this star chart for I P 0 iMf.V qualities of the mature Strauss are already in evidence of his astonishing mastery in manipulating the orchestra, his sly, humorous comments, and, most of all, his gift for song. It is, after all, of almost no importance, except to musicologists, what outside influences are at play in any given composition. All that matters is, does it work: Burleske works ! distin guished composer and dean emeritus of the Eastman School of Music, Howard Hanson (who attended the concerts of th Tabernacle Choir at Chautauqua last August), conducted the world premiere of his Symphony No. 6 with the New York Philharmonic Thursday . . , Boosey k Hawkes, Inc., New York publishers, have deposited seven 20th Century music manuscripts in the Library of Congress. One of them is Stravinsky's score of the ballet Petrouchka that Wiliam Christensen is considering as the next new big work for the Utah Civic Ballet . . . Maureen Forrerter, Canadas great contralto who has been guest soloist with both the Tabernacle Choir and the Utah Symphony, will make hr debut with the Teatro Colon of Buenos Aires as Cornelia in Handel's Julius Caesar" in August. And she sings Brangaene in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde with the Montreal Opera in October . . . RCA Victor's album, My Favorite Chopin, (7048), has been on the Best Selling Classical LPs chart in APPOGGIATURAS The Billboard for 100 consecutive weeks. Second in length on the listing is RCA ot Tchaikovsky's Victors recording Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1. (2252). It has reached 82 consecutive weeks. Columbia's recording of Beetho9 No. ven's Symphony with the Tabernacle Oioir and the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy, continues for the 26th week . . . The new Orchestre de Paris leaves April 14 for a Soviet Union tour, which has been sold out in advance. The orchestra is conducted by Charles Munch, and its guest soloist will be the French pianist, Nicole Henriot . . . Leopold Stokowski and the Chicago Symphony have recorded Khachaturian's Symphony No. 3" that is scored for 18 trumpets and organ, plus the conventional orchestra . . . Tha new conductor of the Houston Symphony. Andre Previn, will guest conduct the American Symphony in Carnegie Hall in March, and the Pittsburgh Symphony in Lincoln Center's Philharmonic Hall June Cl and Julv 1 Dear Santa ; You Will Be Missed Bv HARRY JONES Yes. there ... his Vuginia, spirit lives is a Santa Tins ts a poni time around the inlet seeMon, next to talk of December things. But tnere is com ern among the small when Claus spring is just fr. They rpad the story in the NEWS week last that Santa was killed in a truck accident in Neosho, Mo. L Mr. Jones It was true this time. 1 say this time, because Mel Graham of the staff is a wee bit Scottish. He is like Loch Ness . . . Scottish on both sides . . . Scottish as heathe. . He tried to tell his kids that Santa had died when they were younger.' Santa's real name was Carl R. (Con) Miller and hp lived in the village of North Pole, Alaska. He was mayor and postmaster of the town located about 12 miles out of Fairbanks in the heart of the northland. He did a thriving business selling toys, sending letters, cards, parcels from' Santa Claus, North Pole. People paid' for the postmark. He was a nice guy . , . made a big hit with Utah USO entertainers with Eugene Jelesnick on the recent tour. They were in Alaska before going to Vietnam. And Santa loved them. He was en route to out beautiful City of Salt when tragedy struck. He was to have appeared', on Eugenes television program. ( Sandra Duprey spoke for the troupe, . . . We loved the guy." the relative configuration of the heavens during March, - a m nimwt it . . . i But don't weep, Virginia. As long as there are parents and little children . . . the spirit of Santa will live on. And as long as there are merchants' , with stores full of toys! This weather is bringing out the golf- . . . even Howard Pearson, our man in entertainment. He plays a fair game if someone else keeps score. of golf . ers , Last year he joined Athletics Anony-- ; mous. If he felt like he needed some ex- erase, he had a friend sit with him till he got over llie feeling. . This Isnt what you would call a gem of a story, but it does concern some im- portant rocks. And it may have made '! medical history at LDS Hospital last week. A fellow had been discharged from the hogpital after having some gallstones removed. Instead of going right home, ha stopped for a drink at the snackbar in the lobby. When he left, he forgot his gallstones. He had kept them in a bottle and was going to keep them. Dont know why. I dont think he was going to have them strung into a necklace. "I left my gallstones at the hospital, he said to his wife. Isn't that what you went there for? asked his wife. ; , ' Anyway, he returned to the hospital only to find that someone had picked them up from the table. They had gotten rid of them too by giving them to the lost and found department . . . amid gloves and umbrellas and similar things. So who needs heart transplants to gain fame? Salt Lake has the only hospi- tal in the world where two persons got rid of the same gallstones ! Wit's End: fellow we know was smart enough the Young Republican Club and with his super intellect, passed him- ' self off as a Democrat! A to organize Jtwiniiniiiiiiiiiuiitiimimumiimmmiimttnumintimmmmtti BIG TALK ; s' so' ' Is P ' A'' 9" nr MS-701- if 0 OUR MAN JONES (ML-641- r i m Vi as; hut according to D S advts-e- r the program the government has failed in most areas to uproot the Viet shadow government of political Cong cadie and tax collectors. They s'so oten have failed to caie adequately for to enfoice land laws and to establish semces responsive to the needs of the peasants. Bureaucratic inefficiency and corruption lie behind much of the failure March 4, 1968 Monday, in Does The 'Burleske Work? It Does! March Right into Spring By HANSEN PLANITARIUM STAFF col- long hospitalization. So the Utah Chapter of the National Hemophilia Foundation is striving to have people with the "bleeder's disease visit dentists frequently. o province 13 NEWS, i ' '' isfs 8. ys' .. Js&.'s "Internal kind ';y'' , ?; of ... Revenue said I'm tho guy who has what so they took It!" From ptnffu bv Ltunl V McNMlv for to D: e.ei Nows' popular da-lBby Birlbaay fedura ; ! |