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...reported other violations: "Although the Paris agreements explicitly rule out advisers to the police force, the South Vietnamese national police continue to receive regular advice from Americans." The article suggested that extensive and sometimes illegal aid to Saigon must continue as long as U.S. policy is linked to the anti-Communist rule of President Thieu...
...weeks ago, for example, you could not find a major newspaper or news magazine which did not show the morose portrait of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn staring ominously from its front page. We were presented with a hero--the all-American Russian: a patriot, a defender of the free press, an anti-communist, an international celebrity. But in three weeks, Solzhenitsyn has disappeared from the media. I would not be surprised if Gulag Archipelago gets bad reviews...
...press rarely covers this kind of hero, almost as rarely as it would cover the suffering of Solzhenitsyn if he happened to be a Vietnamese pamphleteer or a Chilean folksinger instead of an anti-communist Nobel Prize winner. Real heroes rarely get publicity or official recognition; their anonymity is part of their heroism...
...sprawling capital of Indonesia, looked at times like a battlefield last week. Fires burned all night as angry mobs attacked stores, businesses, hotels and nightclubs, smashing and gutting hundreds of automobiles as they surged through the stricken city. It was the worst rioting that Jakarta had seen since the anti-Communist disturbances of 1967. The occasion for the violence this time, ironically enough, was neither the threat of externally supported subversion nor the advent of civil war; rather, it was the good-will visit of a friendly foreign leader, Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka...
Chiang wrote that small groups of airdropped guerillas and commando raids could "surely touch off an anti-tyranny revolutionary movement on the mainland." He said that at the proper time "military actions could be launched from Taiwan supporting the anti-Communist movement...