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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3 NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011  Without awaiting the re-examination suggested above, measures already underway to increase the output of the Saigon broadcasting station should be intensified.

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Agrovilles and land development projects contribute materially to the solution of security problems in the rural areas. All possible efforts should be made to speed up these programs. An important element of these programs should be the construction of village roads with heavy use of local labor, and of self-help housing - with aid - maximizing use of local materials and labor. It is difficult to forecast with precision the costs for the proposed VN target of 100 additional agrovilles over the next eighteen months. The following estimate represents a rough order of magnitude. The real figures will depend on (a) actual mobilization of skilled manpower to organize and manage the program, and (b) refined costing on an austere, emergency basis. The piaster estimate covers local costs while the dollar estimate covers the equipment and supplies not domestically available.

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Adequate care of the wounded, both civilian and military, is essential for psychological as well as for obvious human reasons. Civilian and military authorities must confer on an urgent basis to determine how best to make use of the available medically trained manpower in Viet Nam. To maximize the use of Rh