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Technical assistance, American -- Vietnam (Republic)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Michigan State University: Technical Assistance Program, Vietnam (reel 1), 1955

 Item — Reel 85
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1955

Michigan State University: Technical Assistance Program, Vietnam (reel 2), 1957

 Item — Reel 86
Scope and Contents

Michigan State University professors Dr. Edward Weidner and Dr. Ralph Smuckler discuss the country of Vietnam. Topics include appointing staff for the Vietnam Project, moving staff and their families to Saigon ("cultural shock"), transportation, Vietnamese society, issues with housing and slums, President Ngô Đình Diệm and the National Assembly, architecture, Catholicism, the building where the Michigan State University Group is housed, and meetings headed by Dr. Wesley Fishel.

Dates: 1957

Michigan State University: Technical Assistance Program, Vietnam (reel 3), 1957

 Item — Reel 87
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1957

Michigan State University: Technical Assistance Program, Vietnam (reel 4), 1957

 Item — Reel 88
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1957

Michigan State University: Technical Assistance Program, Vietnam (reel 5), 1956

 Item — Reel 89
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...
Dates: 1956