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...Song My, Taylor concludes, that the U.S. seems to be committing war crimes that violate legal precedents established by the Geneva Conventions and the 1956 Army Manual. Taylor's concern is mainly My Lai-like incidents, the killing of prisoners and destruction of villages suspected of harboring Viet Cong...
...desecration of the flag, requiring U.S. astronauts to plant only Old Glory on the moon, and making a flag patch part of the uniform of Washington, D.C., police. Not only did Roudebush attack Hartke's stand on Viet Nam, he also put on a TV commercial showing a Viet Cong being handed a rifle. The punch line was that supporting trade with Communist countries, as Hartke does, is like "putting a loaded gun in the hands of our enemies." Roudebush also pushed the social issue hard...
...displeasure with the Soviets over a number of issues. Washington remains disturbed by Russia's role in sneaking missiles into the cease-fire zone along the Suez Canal. The U.S. is also disappointed that Moscow has refused to exert pressure on North Viet Nam and the Viet Cong to be more reasonable at the stalled peace talks in Paris, where Hanoi's Chief Delegate Xuan Thuy last week called Nixon a liar. Washington is especially upset, however, over the case of the captive U.S. generals, whose unarmed Beechcraft blundered off course on a flight in Turkey...
Chomsky's dust jacket presents a photograph of a beefy American G.I. leading a frail, blindfolded, near-naked Viet Cong out of a helicopter by a rope around the neck. For Chomsky, Indochina is a kind of parable. Viet Nam is the historical misadventure that has exposed the corruption of America-its materialism, its hypocritical democracy -to itself and to the world. If Americans cannot see this and reform, he says, they will destroy themselves and quite possibly everybody else...
...90th Chemical Detachment claim that Orange has been sprayed by other units in the Americal Division as well as their own. The stated reason for spraying the crops-which all belong to Montagnard tribesmen -was that the Army suspects the harvest was being given to the Viet Cong. Knowledgeable observers point out that the traditional ethnic hatred between Montagnards and all other Vietnamese makes it unlikely they would voluntarily supply food to either side...