Second, Hanoi decided to devote its Vietnamese Commuhist structure in Cambodia to supporting the war in the south. Social groups which had dabbled in dancing and basketball became recruit centers or procurement detachments/ -Cadres exhorted young men to join the Viet Cong Army. Elderly ladies were engaged to wrap bandages, or buy penicillin in Phnom Penh drug stores. As in Vietnam, Front Associations sprang up in Vietnamese communities throughout the country.