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Members of the team at various times were Thomas F. Conlon, 40, now head of the State Department's Australia and New Zealand desk, but between 1960 and 1962 a Vietnamese-speaking official of the U.S. embassy's political section in Saigon; Earl J. Young, 34, an AID representative in South Viet Nam between 1963 and last February; Lieut. Colonels Thomas M. Wait, 40, and Rolfe L. Hillman Ir., 41, both veteran U.S. Army advisers in South Viet...
...team got a taste of what it was in for. "You State Department people," complained Fred Ciporen, 25, a history graduate, "are coming here on the assumption that we students don't know what Government policy is. Well we do know, and we disagree with it." Replied Conlon: "No, we don't make that assumption at all. We only intend to share our experience with you. We are interested in and respect your views and hope you will respect ours." Retorted Ciporen: "Come on! Why not be honest with us? Like Johnson, you think...
...chairman of the meeting, Angela Mischke, 23, a graduate in Russian history, pleaded in vain "Please sit down." Cried Fred Ciporen: "These people are standing for a reason! If you ask them to sit down, you're missing the point." Finally a semblance of order was achieved, and Conlon began by comparing the meeting to a bullfight where the crowd had just shouted "Let the bull come out!" Asked for a general statement of the U.S. position in Viet Nam, he said simply: "The overall aim of the U.S. Government is to assist a legal government, recognized by over...
...student from Ceylon wanted to know about "what goes on in the month of torture" undergone by captured Viet Cong guerrillas. Said Conlon: "American interrogations in Viet Nam-and I have participated-do not include torture . . . But if you want examples of torture, why do you never condemn the well-documented tortures carried out by the Communists...
...that was one of the few bright spots. And when Conlon was leaving, he was accosted by Arnold Lochin, a 26-year-old biochemistry graduate, who sneered: "Get this straight, sweetie. We're not going to fight your filthy fascist war. Go fight it yourself...