Word: montagnard
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...usual in Hawks pictures, Wayne remains the stoic straight man, the butt of some good-natured gags, who nevertheless comes through whenever it is time for gunplay. He seems as natural and right in his role as a well-worn saddle, even though he wears a Vietnamese montagnard bracelet and a Western belt buckle engraved with a D while he plays a character named Cord McNally in a film set at the end of the Civil...
...fact that most of this population is necessarily in remote and usually insecure areas and therefore information regarding medical effects, if any, can only be gradually expected to filter out from the sites of direct exposure. An unknown proportion, but probably quite significant, of the exposed population, consists of Montagnard people whose births are normally at home or in villages and are rarely recorded in the Government of Vietnam medical system or allowed for in the GVN statistics...
...Chemical Corps arguments for spraying were simply false. The chemical crop destruction in the Song Re valley destroyed food which would have fed the civilian Montagnard population, not VC/NVA soldiers. Was this particular mission a mistake? The HAC was told by the chemical staff officer that this crop destruction mission was particularly effective and well planned...
...Montagnard religion prevents the people from returning to their land and trying to farm again-assuming the chemically treated ground will permit crop growth...
...EVIDENCE indicates that the crop destruction program is widespread, that cases like that of the Song Re valley are not exceptions, and that the Montagnard people are being systematically destroyed. In Quang Nai and Quang Tin provinces, the food scheduled for destruction in 1970-71 was estimated for the Commission at 14,575 metric tons. That is enough to sustain around 50-70,000 people for a year. The targeted areas of those two provinces are the upland regions where the Montagnards live. The total Montagnard population of those two provinces is just under...