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...there is any political logic to racing down city streets, breaking shop and car windows and assuaging policemen, the demonstrators have not bothered to make it plain. One R Y M-I leader announced Wednesday night that the "revolution must move like fish in the sea." Against the background of the week's events, the words sounds like a parody of Mao's essential teaching. Chicago's "friendly sea" turned on the group of Weathermen, as some bystanders fought with them in the streets...
...turnout of demonstrators-300 out of an expected 1.000-plainly indicates the Weathermen tactics have few supporters in this country, even among radicals. But the massive violence of the R Y M-I effort can do damage way out of proportion to their numbers by strengthening opponents of social change in the United States...
Generally, the effect of the M-I complex is to foster heavy defense spending and impede cutbacks, even in an inflationary period. Not at all by coincidence, the legislators who have the most to say about military spending-the chairmen of the Senate and House Armed Services and Appropriations Committees-have been blessed over the years with substantial military business in their states and districts. Congressman George Mahon (House Appropriations) can point to the fact that Texas gets more business from the military than any other state except California (which gets $6.6 billion a year). South Carolina's Mendel...
...customs, such as the fact that "it is forbidden to cut the hair on Wednesday or to wash the hair on Thursday" (baldheaded soldiers were warned that by some native superstition, they would be considered ''bearers of pestilence and plague"). Then G.I.s taught the "natives" to use M-I rifles and carbines, negotiated such delicate matters as how close to a local burial ground they could set up mortars. They slipped down ropes from hovering helicopters, whacked away tall pampas grass so that choppers could land...
...Some Chinks climbed up on the truck," he said, "and started to punch us with their rifle muzzles. They were American M-i rifles. We yelled 'Wounded,' but they threw us out on the road...