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...years ago," he wrote to film historian Juliam Smith of his script, The Rifle, "it has all the ingredients of that flavor of war right up to the end--including a Calley flavor." His central character was "a symbol of war through generations--who ends up killing a Viet Cong boy--a boy he fell in love with--a boy he wanted to adopt and take back to the States--because the Army...commanded him to murder the civilian boy only because the boy represented the enemy...
...years ago," he wrote to film historian Juliam Smith of his script, The Rifle, "it has all the ingredients of that flavor of war right up to the end--including a Calley flavor." His central character was "a symbol of war through generations--who ends up killing a Viet Cong boy--a boy he fell in love with--a boy he wanted to adopt and take back to the States--because the Army...commanded him to murder the civilian boy only because the boy represented the enemy...
...refused to enter the armed forces in 1967, saying, "I ain't got nothing against no Viet Cong; no Viet Cong never called me nigger." The hate mail poured in, heavier and more violent than ever. Somebody once sent him a dead chihuaha for Christmas...
...reason for Agnew's downfall, of course, was the liberal press--"I remember how enraged I was when I saw on television a gang of scruffy looking characters proudly carrying a Viet Cong flag down Pennsylvania Avenue, while a national network commentator ran along beside them with his microphone deferentially extended for whatever seditious statements they might choose to make." Not only did the press insist on covering both sides of the issue when one of them should have been "justly condemned for being traitors," it also slanted its depictions of the Vice President. One reason for the press' hostility...
South Viet Nam is now administered by battle-tough Viet Cong veterans. A 54-year-old lieutenant colonel, for example, was chosen to head Saigon's City Department of Social Service and administer $2.26 million a year. In Song Be province, Vu Xuan Thu, once a Viet Cong guerrilla leader, is deputy director of land clearing and New Economic Zones, a job that involves the destinies of 150,000 farmers. Thu claims to have killed 27 Americans during the war, but he admits that such heroics do not help him now. "In the army...