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...VIETNAMESE by Susan Sheehan. 204 pages. Knopf...
These words are spoken by three representatives of Viet Nam's peasant millions who have lived with war in their homeland for more than 20 years. Their stories were collected in 1965 and 1966 in a series of interviews by Susan Sheehan, a New Yorker writer and the wife of Neil Sheehan, who was a New York Times correspondent in Saigon. In addition to this Vietnamese trio, seven other people are presented in the book: a landlord, a Montagnard, an orphan, a Buddhist monk, a Viet Cong, a South Vietnamese soldier, a politician...
...which lend themselves to controversy." As for the brothel remark, said Fulbright, it was intended to illustrate the "general proposition that rich and strong nations have a powerful impact on small and weak ones. Frankly, it never occurred to me that a brief summary of an article by Neil Sheehan in the New York Times would attract such widespread interest...
...this seemed to suggest that, like a caricature of the paper's advertising campaign, Fulbright thought he had been jobbed by the Times. But Sheehan had merely described the prostitution in Saigon; he had hardly gone so far as to characterize the whole city as a brothel. It took Fulbright to make that assumption-and irritate his supporters as well as his detractors. "Saigon is no more an American brothel, literally or figuratively, than was Seoul, Berlin, Rome or wartime London," said the New Republic, which generally goes along with the Senator's criticism of U.S. foreign policy...
Baker, who has twice run close to Warner in the mile this spring but has been beaten by him twice, may choose the three mile run instead. In that event he would run against George Sheehan of Manhattan, who has run close to 14:00 in the three mile, and Barry Brown of Providence, an 8:53.1 two miler...