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...also a concession to the forces of coercion as distinguished from persuasion. Moreover, law enforcement in the area of what some regard as private morality and private consumption almost inevitably entails the use of despicable or, at any rate, unworthy enforcement measures. Informers, undercover operators, blackmailers, and often corrupt enforcement authorities have opportunities far more dangerous than in the suppression of conventional types of crime...
...lurking in the park, and its character was less complex. NBC was evil. One knew this when one saw a member of their team, insolent in his blue blazer, tanned by the Carribean--or was it Innsbruck--sun, corrupt in his basic indifference to our ragged emotion and hope. He wore a blue plastic badge as a catchet of his sterility. The opportunists from mass media delayed the game so that they could beam coast to coast a clicheridden conversation with the rival managers...
...great many Americans feel strongly that: 1) America is paying too much, in both dollars and lives, for a conflict not of its making; 2) South Viet Nam is not pulling its weight militarily; 3) any Saigon regime, under whatever system of elections or government, will remain corrupt and undemocratic; 4) the U.S. is pulling its punches, particularly in the application of air power in the bombing of North Viet...
...answer the charges. Instead, he made a "nonpolitical " trip into the Mekong Delta, where he predicted that his ticket would win more votes than all ten civilian candidates combined. Thieu did his part by calling a press conference in Saigon and announcing plans for a purge of all corrupt and incompetent army officers, "from generals down to second lieutenants." Thieu also followed the lead of his civilian opponents and promised that, if elected, he would make a peace bid to Hanoi. If he were to receive some sign of a favorable response, he said, he would propose a one-week...
...coercion at their command. Loudspeaker teams travel through V.C. villages, whispering rumormongers scuttle through government zones, U.S.O.-type song-and-dance troupes and armed propaganda teams enter a village to "protect" it after advance men have sounded out the villagers' grievances. Whatever the complaints?whether they deal with a corrupt headman or a lack of land reform?the Viet Cong move in and offer redress where they can. Their methods are direct: shoot the corrupt chief, redistribute the land...