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What is frightening many black officers and a few knowledgeable white ones is not so much the course of the war as it is the potential of the young black to bring the lessons of violence he has learned in the war against the Viet Cong to America with...
...Vietnamese who have fought against us are not machines. Indeed, it seems likely that a Viet Cong soldier setting out to battle is no more anxious to die than an American. The Vietnamese who have fought against the overwhelming power of the United States for the past four-and-a-half years are not of a different species from ours. Like people anywhere, the Vietnamese feel pain, have love affairs, like to dance, and carry pictures of their families in their wallets. The bravery and devotion of these people can't be explained by racial stereotypes: to understand why they...
...character. American intervention has transformed the Vietnam conflict into a crucial test of American capacity to suppress movements of national liberation. Before Vietnam, it was not at all certain that even a substantially united people could defeat the concentrated power of the United States. The success of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese has shown that the United States does not have the strength to deliver on its promises of protection to the puppet regimes through which it manipulates internal politics in countries of the Third World. An American withdrawal would confirm this paramount lesson of Vietnam...
...Controversy. The delegates haggled over which Cambodia to recognize, the Lon Nol regime in Phnom-Penh or Prince Sihanouk's outfit in Peking; they decided to seat neither. Mme. Nguyen Thi Binh, foreign minister of the Viet Cong's Provisional Revolutionary Government, was welcomed as an observer after a debate that Kaunda dismissed as merely "a bit of controversy." The "nonaligned" posture of the conference was bent even further when Zambian police arrested 16 Western reporters and deported three of them. The men were detained, explained the Zambian government, because "the monopoly press of the West" was seeking...
...blue, joined by a rainbowed trunk. Some stop fetchingly just above the navel, others stretch down to the ankle. Almost all flaunt a symbol, and the range is all-encompassing. The ideological warriors can sport the peace sign, the clenched fist marking Women's Liberation or even the Viet Cong flag. Exhibitionists will love the startling model imprinted with a properly located life-size photo of a pair of breasts. Optimists can don a shirt featuring a rainbow with a slice of pie-pie in the sky, of course. A satin applique style shows a country cabin with smoke...