Thurrsday October 22, 1970
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Page Seven'
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SAIGON (P) - After nearly
10 years of fighting Commun-
ists with massive American aid,
South Vietnam stands in dan-
ger of losing a different war:
The battle against inflation and
corruption.
Dwindling U.S. payrolls as
the big contractors phase out
and Vietnamization continues,
plus the plummeting value of
the plaster raise the threat of
widescale unemployment, a de-
moralized, underpaid army and
lovers
lane
civil service, and °growing dis-
content and disaffection in the
overcrowded cities.
Four years ago, at the peak,
of the U.S. buildup, hundreds of
millions of U.S. dollars were go-
ing down the drain in theft, bri-
bery, waste, black marketeer-
ing and money manipulation.
Since then, the U.S. and
Vietnamese governments have
effectively combined to put the
damper on a number of the
more flagrant opportunities for
smuggling and theft. They have
also reduced diversion of U.S.
goods and PX supplies through
improved security and upgraded
auditing controls, and h a v e
made a sizeable dent in the il-
legal money market by stemming
the flow of GI money orders
and tightening up airport cus-
toms procedures.
But while the overall situa-
tion had improved markedly
from the control standpoint,
corruption in the meantime had
become more sophisticated,
more pervasive as the war sub-
n latio
sided in the countryside a n d
more dangerous because of its
instant effect on the shaky pias-
ter.
Petroleum losses .in the mil-
lions of gallons had developed
into a major scandal, and some
of the older rackets, like hi-
jacking trucks and stealing jeeps
and motorbikes, has passed from
the hands of independent en-
tepreneurs to the machinations
of a "shadow community" of
GIs - deserters and ex-con-
tract employes living in the
slums of Cholon and Saigon.
A study by a team of report-
ers in South Vietnam revealed
these findings:
0 Officials at U.S. commis-
saries acknowledge "account-
ability shortages" totalling about
$35 million over the past three
years. They forecast this year's
loss at about $9 million. That's
only about 2.5 per cent of sales
totaling $441 million, but still
a considerable dollar loss.
* The roads to most major
cities are lined with "bottle
plague S.,
shops" selling black market
gasoline that commercial firms
insist is stolen from military
sources.
With the return of Saigon
port control to the South Viet-
namese, stealing from U.S. ships
unloading cargo is once more on
the rise. As many as 2,000 bags
of rice have disappeared 'from
a single ship, and the Vietnam-
ese government is trying to
make U.S. ship owners pay for
the losses inflicted by Vietnam-
ese stevedores and bargemen.
O In recent months, through
investigations by the understaf-
fed Vietnamese Inspectorate
General, province chiefs h a v e
been removed on charges of cor-
ruption in Pleiku, Chau Dic,
Khanh Hoa, Vinh Dinh a n d
Hau Nghia provinces. A top
American official in the Mekong
Delta points out that none was
ever brought to trial and al-
most all wound up with e q u a
or better jobs.
d Valuable goods still are
stored in the open where they,
are vulnerable to deterioration
and pilferage.
* Four years after it was
dumped in a marshy field near
the village of Phu An, a b o u t
$1.4 million worth of U.S. paid-
for steel is rusting away while
U.S. government and congres-
sional investigators check on a
potential scandal involving a
new contract to dispose of the
steel.
* U.S. military and civilian
advisors in the field complain
that the Village Development
Fund, which makes up to a
million piasters in public works
available to hamlets and vil-
lages setting up local govern-
ment, has become "a license to
steal," especially in Montag-
nard areas where Vietnamese
officials disregard the desires
of the people to build their own
pet projects.
O American officers, oversee-
ing measures to improve the lot
of Vietnamese militiamen, re-
port that U.S. supplied tin roof-
ing and cement intended for
new housing seems to disappear
somewhere in the South Viet-
namese government chain.
Sometimes only forlorn, weath-
er-beaten wooden frames a r e
erected '- and remain unfin-
ished.
0 Vietnamese sources say
families can arrange to have
their men transferred from
dangerous or far-away posts
for a minimum of 50,000 piast-
ers ($420 legal rate, $140 black-
market) and as much as 300,-
000. The soldier is shifted on
paper to a unit near Saigon,
never spends time with his unit,
is given leave papers so that
he can remain home and even
work. His unit commander pock-
ets his paycheck: This sort of
practice raises questions about
the validity of figures on the
size of the South Vietnamese
army.
0 A top U.S. official in the
Mekong Delta states flatly that
"ghost payrolls" for national
police, regional and popular
forces are lining the pockets of
any number of corrupt district
and province officials, again.
with Uncle Sam underwriting
the cost.
Daily Official Bulletin
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