In the jungle battlefields of Viet Nam, knowing the Vietnamese language may be as important to a U.S. soldier as his accuracy in firing an M-14. Supplying American military advisers there with the right words is fast becoming the primary mission of what its graduates call "Lingo Tech": the West Coast Branch of the Defense Language Institute, located at the Army's historic Presidio in Monterey, Calif.
Operated for all the services by the Army Department, the institute had its modest beginnings in 1941 as an Army intelligence course in Japanese, now has five schools across the country. Of these, the...
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