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...haystack pile of blonde hair and say in a little meowing voice: "I forgot the question." At first, her fluffs were a case of misreading the cue cards. Now they are part of the act, as when she bites her lip and chirps: "I don't like Viet Cong because in the movie he nearly wrecked the Empire State Building...
...reason to believe that good times were here to stay. Thus there is genuine outrage when protesters screaming "Liberty!" and "Justice!" defile an American flag that for most Americans has always symbolized liberty and justice. To most who have fought for that standard, the spectacle of youngsters waving Viet Cong flags comes as near-blasphemy...
Experiment was a bust. Bedbugs carried in a special capsule were supposed to smell out North Vietnamese and Viet Cong, and let out tiny "yowls" of excitement that could be amplified for human ears. But while field tests showed that the buggy road show would actually work, it proved too troublesome to keep the bugs both healthy and hungry in Viet...
Kamikaze Foxes. Communists sometimes gather fireflies in glasses for illumination. Occasionally, they carry owls to the perimeters of Vietnamese outposts: to superstitious Vietnamese, the hoot of an owl is a dire sign of impending disaster. Back in the days of guerrilla war, some Viet Cong outfits even trained kamikaze foxes to make a beeline for light at night, then sent them off into well-lit U.S. and Vietnamese installations, carrying explosives and a timer on their backs...
...Draper, Kraslow and Loory tell the story, the United States has failed in several political arenas. According to Draper, it has failed in Saigon and in the hamlets of the countryside to encourage the political development which could have competed with the Viet Cong infrastructure for the allegiance of the Vietnamese people. Both The Secret Search and the Abuse of Power also show very clearly that U.S. leaders have failed as propagandists--with tragic domestic results. And finally The Secret Search argues persuasively that the Johnson Administration has failed at the task of diplomacy as well...