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With all the stupidity and inefficiency described in your article on Viet Nam [April 25], how did the North Vietnamese beat...
...Viet Nam Revisited...
...quote a London human rights group official as saying, "In Viet Nam we are not confronted with the torture and political executions that currently scar Central America.'' Actually, many Vietnamese perished in the "reeducation" camps, where they were forced to labor twelve hours a day in malaria-infested jungles without adequate food, shelter or medication. The Vietnamese Communists have transformed Viet Nam into a huge prison camp with no human rights...
...gusts of anxiety that shake Western Europe, and the Reagan Administration must moderate its language on East-West issues. At one point during the conference, Senator Tsongas told Richard Burt, "If you assume that the next battlefield is the European heart and mind, to coin an old Viet Nam expression, if that is where the fight is now, how does one rationalize the rhetoric which is giving the Soviets an advantage in that battle? What assurance can we give the Europeans that between today and the day of deployment the President will be advised to be sensitive to the European...
...Vietnam Deception appeared to accuse retired Army General William Westmoreland of being one of the principal figures behind a "conspiracy at the highest levels of American military intelligence." The alleged aim was to underreport enemy troop strength and create the illusion that the U.S. was winning the Viet Nam War. After the January broadcast, the angered general turned down the network's offer of 15 minutes' rebuttal time and last September slapped CBS with a $120 million libel suit. That suit is generating its own prickly set of constitutional complications...