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APPENDIX 1 ToL the support and protection of orphans, old people, invalids; come to the help of the victims of the Americans and Diemists; organize help for areas hit by bad crops, fires, or natural calamities. 8. Come to the help of displaced persons desiring to return to their native areas and to those who wish to remain permanently in the South; improve their working and living conditions. 9. Prohibit expulsions, spoliation, and compulsory concentration of the population: guarantee job security for the urban and rural working populations. IV. Reduce land rent; implement agrarian reform with the aim of providing land to the tillers. 1. Reduce land rent; guarantee to the farmers the right to till the soil; guarantee the property right of accession to fallow lands to those who have cultivated them; guarantee property rights to those farmers who have already received land. 2. Dissolve “prosperity zones,” and put an end to recruitment for the camps that are called “agricultural development centers.” Allow those compatricts who already have been forced into “prosperity zones” and “agricultural development centers” to return freely to their own lands. 3. Confiscate the land owned by American imperialists and their servants, and distribute it to poor peasants without any land or with insufficient land; redistribute the communal lands on a just and ra- tional basis. 4. By negotiation and on the basis of fair prices, repurchase for distribution to landless peasants or peasants with insufficient land those surplus lands that the owners of large estates will be made to relinquish if their domain exceeds a certain limit, to be determined in accord- ance with regional particularities. The farmers who benefit from such land distribution will not be compelled to make any payment or to submit to any other conditions. V. Develop a national and democratic culture and education. 1. Combat all forms of culture and education enslaved to Yankee fashions; develop a culture and education that is national, progressive, and at the service of the Fatherland and people. 2. Liquidate illiteracy, increase the number of schools in the fields: of general education as well as in those of technical and professional education, in advanced study as well as in other fields; adopt Vict- namese as the vernacular language; reduce the expenses of education and exempt from payment students who are without means; resume the examination system. 3. Promote science and technology and the national letters and’ aaa