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Those rules tolerate large swaths of gray and encourage euphemism. Bribes, graft and expenses-paid vacations are never talked about on Capitol Hill. Honorariums, campaign contributions and per diem travel reimbursements are. Cash gifts, even of $100,000, are not automatically illegal, as long as they are disclosed and the giver has no direct interest in legislation. Neither is free use of posh apartments and expensive cars...
...Marvell, he is the perfect hero for yuppies with a fondness for culture. In his time, Marvell was an advocate of the carpe diem philosophy, known for his lines to his coy mistress, "Had we but world enough, and time,/ This coyness. lady, were no crime." Here Marvell not only exhorts the reader to seize the day but also to indulge his desires...
Kwitny finds the CIA involved in impropriety across Asia. He argues that the CIA was a key player in a drug smuggling operation headed by President Diem's brother, Nhu, that poured heroin into the United States. And it was Nugan Hand that, during its solvency in the 1970s, laundered the operation's money...
...FORCES IN South Vietnam seem to be trying everything short of outright fighting to stem the growing strength of the guerilla revolt. But plush relocation camps to concentrate the peasants and helicopter supply lifts cannot sustain unpopular President Diem's rule without direct U.S. military support. Even such military action, however, would be likely to succeed only in the distant future. If U.S. policy continues, as guerilla fighting spreads and more American troops pour into Vietnam, the U.S. will doubtless be involved, in a shooting capacity, with a long and messy jungle...
Because some of the Communist-led guerillas are non-Communists who oppose President Diem's authoritarianism, such a war could hardly be waged in the name of democracy. Because many are South Vietnamese, American intervention would mean, at best, meddling in a civil war; at worst, suppressing a popular rebellion. But the principle of national self-determination has guided American policy only when its Cold War stategy permits...