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...Vietnamese have died in the continuing civil strife. Pilger says that despite Vietnam's low priority in the news, and despite the fact that most Americans may consider the war in Vietnam over, it is still very much America's war. In interviews with several U.S. civilians in a Saigon bar each man explains his job--many are technical experts and all share one viewpoint in common. That is, they're absolutely essential to the smooth functioning of the South Vietnamese effort. Without them the Republic of South Vietnam wouldn't be able to survive for long. One man claims...
...only known--film documentary of continued American involvement in Vietnam comes from England, where a small team of journalists broadcast a half-hour documentary last May, called Vietnam: Still America's War. This film premiered in North America last Monday night under the auspices of the Coalition to Free Saigon Political Prisoners...
...documentary is not as factually substantial as one might hope. But it does provide important information about the number of Americans still in Vietnam. It cites figures released by the American Embassy in Saigon setting the number of Americans in Vietnam at 6500. The narrator quotes the most recent figures from Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50: 2300. The discrepancy cannot be accounted for. According to unofficial sources there are about 15,000 Americans in South Vietnam...
...people's support, for instance, or that what's good for General Motors is good for the world--are lies. However scrupulously honest Ford's reasoning from such premises, he still comes out with conclusions--that Congress should provide even more aid to South Korea and especially the Saigon government of South Vietnam, for example--which it would be difficult for him to reach in any other...
...such unexamined biases. This summer, for example, the Times gave prominent play to a three-part series on South Vietnam by David K. Shipler. The series contained considerable information--most of it at least a year or two old--on the torture that is commonplace in the Saigon government's political prisons. Shipler laid great stress on the fact that many of those tortured are not communists, and in general the moral of the series appeared to be that the United States should suggest to General Thieu that he institute some prison reforms and some civil liberties, and maybe consider...