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...most historians have yet to accord film the validity they have granted to literature. Maybe these historians can't get over their initial orientation towards film as an entertainment medium. Twenty years ago, Sir Arthur Elton, one of the first to write about the value of film as source material, suggested another possible reason for the historians' reluctance to study film. "The principle thing frustrating the proper application of film to history," he wrote, "is lack of awareness of the possibilities; and the lingering feeling, a hangover from the Nathan flare days, that it is undignified for scholars to take...
...argument is difficult to prove even now, in the so-called aftermath of the war. Yet more than one and a half years after the Paris peace agreement, Sartre's prediction has come true. The U.S. is complicit in--if not directly responsible for--continued violations of the Paris accord. Not only do these violations of the peace treaty, which was called an "Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam," take the form of political and economic oppression, but they are blatantly acts of aggression...
...hospital for the disabled the camera focuses on several pairs of feet, some real, some wooden; they belong to mine-victims and grenade-casualties. An American nurse at the hospital says quite bluntly the worst problem is land-mines left by American troops. The Paris peace accord stipulated that all American land-mines be removed or defused within sixty days of the agreement. The most recent casualty, a teenage girl, is still soaking the stump of her amputated leg in solution to keep it from getting infected--more than a year after the treaty was signed. Later...
...confiscate any newspaper anytime. It was President Thieu who would not allow the general elections to be held, would not allow the communists access to the press, permission to run candidates or the freedom to hold open rallies in support of those candidates--all provided for in the Paris accord. Yet the United States supports Thieu with economic and military aid, both of which will be increased in the next year if Congress doesn't implement its new foreign aid provisions limiting President Ford's powers...
...response did not echo Kaufmann's optimism. "It is not our intention to make any serious dents in [the men's] practice procedure," Watson responded on November 2. "Are we justified in dismantling established men's programs that have operated in a vigorously competitive atmosphere in order to accord 'equal treatment' to programs which are not really equal in either intensity or dedication...