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Alain Resnais is, of course, notorious for exploiting this state of affairs to the limit. Hence the hypnotic effect of his films. His counterpart in literature, Alain Robbe-Grillet, who wrote the screenplay of Resnais' second film, Last Year at Marienbad (1961), speaks for Resnais when he calls his own work "an attempt to construct a space and a time purely mental--that of dreams, for example, or of memory...
...Administration seems to be working with only one historic model of aggression, namely, that which would make it the Viet Cong today's counterpart of Hitler's Sudeten Germans, about to deliver up a stalwartly democratic Asian Czechoslovakia! Stubborn and unimaginative anti-Chamberlain-ship is perhaps as anachronistic and inept in the face of nationalist-Communist guerilla warfare as was the Braddock-Cornwallis military complex in coping with revolutionary American backwoods patriots supplied by France. American policy should reflect our full awareness of the anti-colonial, nationalist fervor that pervades great parts of Asian and Africa." (emphesis added...
...LANE ROGERS, 36, a lean, dry-humored U.S. Marine Corps regular, has been in Viet Nam for 10½ months as adviser to a Vietnamese marine batallion. He has no command capacity whatever. All he can do os offer suggestions when and if they are solicited by his Vietnamese "counterpart." To perform effectively, the adviser must earn the trust and friendship of his Vietnamese opposite number- a process that often takes weeks, and sometimes is never achieved. Whenever an American adviser tries to force his views on a Vietnamese commander, he is in for trouble. Thus one overzealous adviser...
Next day, as the march continued, Rogers tagged at the heels of the Vietnamese commander. Finally the unit ran into Viet Cong fire while moving along a river bank. Then Rogers' counterpart turned to him with a question: "What about some air?" Rogers agreed, and while his counterpart radioed for Vietnamese-flown Skyraiders, Rogers called in American-flown helicopters. "Then," recalls Rogers, "I asked the commander which he wanted to carry out the strike. He said both, and I had to explain that you couldn't have Skyraiders and choppers going in over the target at the same...
...Viet Cong sniper who seemed to nip away at us every evening after supper. I used to sneak down to a dike just behind him and try to catch him. Then I went to Saigon for a couple of days. When I got back, I noticed my counterpart grinning widely. That evening he told me that that V. C. wasn't going 'Bang! Bang!' any more. He had shot him during my absence. He showed me the brand-new Russian carbine he had taken off the sniper. I had it chromed and polished in Saigon and presented...