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...went to Seoul in August 1974 with Fred Branfman and three relatively anonymous Japanese to deliver a petition to President Park to release his political prisoners. It had been signed by 17,000 Japanese, Jean-Paul Sartre, Willy Brandt, Joseph Needham, and--I am proud to say--three Harvard professors: Edwin O. Reischauer, Jerome A. Cohen and Edward W. Wagner. I was in Seoul for just 48 hours, perhaps the most unpleasant in my life, with the Korean CIA never letting up for a moment its bugging and intimidation...
...which was sponsored in Washington, D.C., by the Center for National Security Studies. When associates warned that he would be up against a stacked deck, Colby shrugged: "There's nothing wrong with accountability." The conference was dominated by critics like Ellsberg, who harangued Colby for 20 minutes, and Fred Branfman of the Indochina Resource Center, who accused the director of telling "outrageous lies." Colby kept his temper...
...SPIW, or Special Purpose Individual Weapon. Each of these bombs sprays out "flechettes"--barbed steel nails one to three inches long. These nails cause more internal damage to their victims than dum-dum bullets, which were outlawed by the Hague Convention of 1907. On December 24, 1972, Fred Branfman, an authority on the air war, explained the effects of the bomb in the Washington Post...
...following selections are from Voices from the Plain of Jars. Life under an Air War,a collection of first hand accounts by Laotian peasants of American bombing raids near the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The book has been compiled by an American journalist. Fred Branfman and was published last year by Harper and Row. Perhaps it can help us to hear the American bombers overhead...
...eyewitness accounts collected here also make shabby all official U.S. doubletalk intended to deny or obscure what has actually been inflicted on Lao tian civilians by American airpower, especially since 1968. Branfman ends his book by quoting without comment a May 1971 letter to Michigan Senator Robert Griffin from David M. Abshire, Assistant Secretary of State for Con gressional Relations: "The rules do not permit attacks on nonmilitary targets and place out-of-bounds all inhabited villages . . . We deeply regret the fate of all victims of the war, both those killed by North Vietnamese action and those whose lives have...