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ROBERT W. FROST Major, U.S.A. Fort Knox, Ky...
...opposition to the draft is "picking up momentum in the Senate." Jones counts 13 Senators "who have taken an explicit position to end the draft" and "four or five" who have agreed to filibuster, including Senators Harold E. Hughes (D-Iowa), Vance Hartke (D-Ind.), Marlow W. Cooke (R-Ky.), and William Proxinire...
THOSE the U.S. is not trying to kill it is making into soldiers or cops, or is throwing into concentration camps. In 1960 the Diem regime had 16,000 police, Today, the Thieu-Ky-Khiem regime has 97,000 policemen, Current American projections call for a Saigon police force of 147,000, with 120,000 cited as the goal for the end of 1972. Clearly, at least some American advisers foresee the continuation of the reactionary clique's grip over the country extending into 1973 and beyond...
...chance for what? To maintain the fourth largest army in the world? Or to allow American oil companies the security needed to explore and possibly develop off-shore oil deposits? Or is it merely a chance for Thieu and Ky to continue to deny to the South Vietnamese needed social and economic change? Or is it to allow the U.S. to maintain a land base in Asia against an imagined threat from China? Richard Nixon refuses to speak publicly about such issues. He prefers to talk about "freedom" and "democracy" and "self-determination" and an "honorable peace...
...already staked out a position well to the left of Thieu; he has indicated that he would not be averse to striking some sort of accommodation with the Communist insurgents in the future. When and if he ever gets moving, Minh is expected to run much stronger than Ky, who styles himself "an ex-hawk turned dove" these days but is still basically an opportunist in search of a real constituency...