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...film makes two controversial allegations. First, the American government has ignored its responsibilities to aid in war reparations. Second, U.S. military and economic aid to the Republic of South Vietnam perpetuates the continuing battle between ARVN and PRG forces, supports a politically oppressive climate, and denies the people of Vietnam its recognized right to self-determination...
...amputated leg in solution to keep it from getting infected--more than a year after the treaty was signed. Later on in the documentary, it is revealed that several children who had stepped on the mines had been forced to go around the heavily-mined perimeters of ARVN outposts, supposedly to clear brush away. In effect they were used as human mine detectors. At this one hospital alone 61 per cent of the patients in 1973 were "war-related" cases...
...Southeast Asia, earned a Master's at Princeton and is about to complete his doctoral thesis there (topic: resistance to change in large institutions). Long regarded as Chief of Staff material, Lieut. Colonel Dawkins, currently one of 18 White House Fellows, was in Viet Nam as an ARVN adviser in 1965-66 and again the next summer, when he collaborated on an Army "pacification" study. In the Pentagon in 1970, he helped refine the concept of an all-volunteer army. Last summer he finished a stint as commander of a battalion in Korea...
...laconic military briefings in Saigon, ARVN officials claimed that nearly 63,000 enemy soldiers have been killed since the Paris accords were signed. The South Vietnamese admit losing more than 17,000 men during this period. Despite the intensity of recent fighting-a last-minute Communist flurry before" the monsoons set in-few in Saigon expect a major Communist offensive. Through interrogation of defectors, South Vietnamese intelligence experts have been able to reconstruct a major document based upon a North Vietnamese strategy directive. The document is Central Office for South Viet Nam (COSVN) Resolution 12, designed to inform cadres...
Most of what the South Vietnamese know about military tactics they learned from their American advisers. They learned so well that today ARVN corps commanders flit about the countryside in their personal helicopters, and some unit commanders bounce around in their own high-gloss, jet-black Jeeps. Even the lowliest enlisted man honors the American way of war: never walk when you can hitch a ride in a truck, never hitch in a truck when a Jeep is available, never ride in a Jeep when a helicopter is going your way. These profligate habits cost considerable fuel, as does...