South Viet Nam: Victoria Charlenes
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Chief exhorter of the Victoria Char lenes, Mme. Nguyen Thi Dinh, is the Viet Cong's deputy commander in South Viet Nam. The author of the "new morality" for women in arms, Mme. Dinh tried to instill a "Three Post ponements" campaign: Postpone love, marriage and childbirth. It was not a no table success. Viet Cong men in one area even organized a "Three Struggles" countermovement: Find a mistress, fall in love — and prevent Mme. Dinh's precepts from becoming the law of Viet Cong lands.
*The South Vietnamese government also uses women, but not nearly so many. Saigon recently stopped the practice of recruiting women for rural pacification teams, ruling that the job has become too hazardous. The 2,400 women in the South Vietnamese army serve only as clerks and interpreters.
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