'A Weird War’
(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Oct. 9. New Zealanders working at the hospital at Qui Nhon were paying “fantastic" prices for their living quarters, the Press Association's correspondent in Vietnam, Mr Richard Long, said tonight. Mr Long returned to New Zealand today after spending three months in Vietnam. Many people were making a lot of money out of the war, he said. However, the Vietnamese were already starting to feel “overrun,” and there would be enormous resentIment if the United States doubled the number of troops in the country. Mr Long said the war was “weird.” Trained community reconstruction workers returned to their villages only to be used by the chief as a personal bodyguard, or else to do guard duty for the Army. The president of North Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, was a "fable’ 'to the South Vietnamese peasants, many of whom did not even know the name of their own Prime Minister.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31187, 11 October 1966, Page 8
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156'A Weird War’ Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31187, 11 October 1966, Page 8
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