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...most part, the victims were local officials whom the enemy wanted to eliminate either because they were especially effective in their jobs, or because they were so unpopular that the Viet Cong could win favor by killing them. The primary motive for the show trials and the brutalities, reports TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch, "appears to have been to wreck whatever allegiance the government might have built up, and there are few more effective ways of mitigating allegiance than to bury four dozen loyal men alive" -as happened in the town of Bong Son. Some examples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Campaign of Brutality | 8/21/1972 | See Source »

...middle of a Binh Dinh tea plantation, a Viet Cong court declared that 20 defendants owed a "blood debt to the people." The result: at a midnight gathering in the local sports stadium, three of the prisoners were shot to death by a Viet Cong platoon leader. The other 17 were given prison sentences ranging from two to five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Campaign of Brutality | 8/21/1972 | See Source »

Correspondents used to contending with Viet Cong rifle and mortar fire must now beware of increasingly accurate heavy artillery fire that can kill at long range. At the same time, the withdrawal of U.S. combat units has reduced both the reliability of battle intelligence and the amount of protection a correspondent can count on. Recalls Associated Press Correspondent Peter Arnett, who started covering Viet Nam in 1962, "When you went out with a U.S. unit, you knew that your ass was covered. You were cared for like an American soldier, and that was very good care indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Viet Nam: New Dangers Covering an Old Story | 8/14/1972 | See Source »

...directions that would take newsmen into areas of intense enemy fire. While correspondents simply blame poor intelligence, Browne insists it is done deliberately, and quotes a South Vietnamese captain as having told him: "We know the foreign press is against us. The press is the agent of the Viet Cong, so don't be surprised at what happens to you newsmen here." A few days later, South Vietnamese troops fired over the head of a correspondent who sought to cover them in action at Quang Tri, driving him back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Viet Nam: New Dangers Covering an Old Story | 8/14/1972 | See Source »

...film by the same name, which has played for two weeks in Boston, follows the group as they island-hop all over an illustrated map, bouncing through satiric routines on the bungling authority that got us involved in Vietnam. Sutherland reports a battle with the Viet Cong as if it were a traditional football game ("They are the home team, you know"); four women members of the troupe do a song-and-dance about their liberation from service to the military men; folksinger Len Chandler leads the audience of servicemen and women in a handclapping rendition...

Author: By Barry Levine, | Title: "Fuck the Army" | 8/1/1972 | See Source »

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