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- of in context as it affected the Middle East crisis--the continuing Middle East crisis.
K:
The issue with Libya as long as King Idris was in charge was much
more our holding onto Wheelus [Air Force] Base and protecting our
oil and gas, which were growing
- a lot of the Vietnamese special forces. The Assistant Province Chief in
Ban Me Thuot was a man whose name was Y Bham, Y B-H-A-M. I know you know all
this. Anyway, Y Bham was the hereditary king of the Rhade, and because the Rhade
were the senior tribe
- really
done nothing in the countryside in the way of village development, or
anything that would justify any kind of popular support for the government, other than sort of residual loyalty to the king.
The basic idea was to try to duplicate some