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Michigan State University professors Dr. Edward Weidner and Dr. Ralph Smuckler discuss the country of Vietnam. Topics include the country's resources, technical assistance programs, geographical location, barbed wire barricades and bomb shelters, burning of opium pipes and retaliation against vices.

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Michigan State University professors Dr. Edward Weidner and Dr. Ralph Smuckler discuss the country of Vietnam. Topics include security issues in Vietnam, economic and social development, Ngô Đình Diệm's election to the presidency, ad hoc responses to issues brought up by President Diệm, and aid to Vietnamese villages (including farming, and the creation of roads).

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Michigan State University professors Dr. Edward Weidner and Dr. Ralph Smuckler discuss the country of Vietnam. Topics include the Michigan State University Group's programs in Vietnam, the National Institute of Administration (NIA) in Saigon, other technical assistance programs worldwide, and the education and police training at the NIA.

Scope and Contents MSU professors Edward Weidner and Ralph Smuckler discuss police training, and the first scenes show MSU professor Richard Rogers visiting a civil guard camp. Field training exercises are shown, and Weidner and Smuckler discuss issues with resettlement due to lack of proper police force training. The professors suggest the ideas of in-service training placement, and the creation of police records. Weapon proficiency training footage is shown. Shots of a Vietnamese municipal police...

Series Description (1) SCHOOL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE. 1930, 1938-1988, 1990, undated [1962-1975]. 6.33 cubic feetReports, memoranda, correspondence, notes, publications and extraneous materials relating to the function and activities of the Michigan State University School of Criminal Justice. Topics range in breadth from University and student/classroom-related activities to areas of interest beyond campus boarders. Typical of these topics include: School of Criminal Justice work with the...

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Members of the MSU Vietnam Advisory Group (MSUG) visit various provinces with Vietnamese military personnel.

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A Vietnamese film (narrated in English) about the issuance of new plastic identification cards to replace old identification papers. The story focuses on an irritable character, "Mister Ba", who tries to convince his family that the government's idea to create new forms of personal identification is bureaucratic nonsense.

Scope and Contents Chief of the Civil Guard Section Everett Updike makes a field trip with other personnel in the Civil Guard to Zone 3 of South Vietnam for an inspection tour. Colonel Le Khuong, Deputy Director General of Civil Guard, invites Major Ky Quan Than (medical officer), Captain Luyen (training officer), Captain Nguyen Van Tranh (signal officer), Lieutenant Trinh (personnel officer), Lieutenant Nguyen Van Thien (secretary to the colonel), and Everett C. Updike to accompany him and his staff. The...

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The collection consists of a photograph of Walter Mode and Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1956. The photo is signed "To My Polaroid "Teacher" With Best Wishes Ngo Dinh Diem Saigon June 19, 1956."