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...short, America must quickly change her war aims. Her leaders must decide that an inefficient, corrupt, fanatically anti-Communist government in Saigon for all eternity is not a valid aim of national policy. Once this is done--and Thieu's regime is appraised at something less than $25 billion annually--the problems of peace-making, phasing-out, and neutralization will get the attention they deserve in Washington. The U.S. government should find that the achievement of these goals requires no more ingenuity than the deployment of troops outside the Pentagon, the development of antipersonnel weapons, and the termination of trips...
...magazine, Martin charged that the Vietnamese troops performed so poorly on their own that they should be completely integrated with U.S. forces. The U.S., he went on, should also take a much more active role in governing South Viet Nam, from channeling all economic aid to ousting corrupt Vietnamese officials. "What right do the Vietnamese have to expect full sovereignty," he asked, "while depending for their very survival on U.S. support...
...PLAYHOUSE (Shown on Fridays). An Enemy of the People is Arthur Miller's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's scathing indictment of a corrupt society. James Daly won an Emmy last year for his portrayal of the idealistic doctor. Repeat...
Womack said that Guevara was a good tactician of guerilla warfare but he was not a very successful revolutionary. He explained that "They won in Cuba not the way he said they did, but because the Cuban middle class was the most corrupt ever, and just folded...
...Pied Piper, J. D. Salinger. Salinger and Golding have enjoyed almost prophetic status with the young, and the young have been right to elevate these two against trend spotters and opinion makers. Each gave fictional form to contrary views of life -Salinger maintaining that youth, innocence and grace are corrupted by the cruel conventions of a corrupt society, and Golding demonstrating in fable after fable that man's heart in herits the evil of his ancestry. Wrote Golding in an essay: "Man produces evil as a bee produces honey...