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(313) 665-6131 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 (Continued from Page 6) seling psychology, student personnel work in hig rheeduc. and rel. fields such as guidance, educ., admin., and adult educ. Experiment in International Living, private, non-profit, educational in- stitution deeply involved in interna- tional educ. exchange programs. Three undergrad programs, three grad. level programs. Info at Career Planning. Vietnam THIN K SNOW! 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