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...often been forcibly resettled in fortified villages-because they resent having to walk miles to their paddies. In a successful attack on two hamlets last month, some 2,000 villagers simply vanished. The Reds are particularly hard to flush out of the delta because they often are impossible to distinguish from peaceful peasants. On the other hand, U.S. Special Service troops-"Sneaky Petes"-have made dramatic progress in the north by winning over and training the dark-skinned, aboriginal montagnards. Though they have for centuries been victimized by the lowland Vietnamese, who contemptuously call them Moi (savages), 150,000 montagnards...
...Crime of Birth. Cau's four characters are so overwhelmed by guilt that they cannot recall the actual crimes that landed them in prison. They cannot distinguish between the people they felt like murdering and those they actually did murder; they feel as guilty for their thoughts as for their deeds. In brooding conversations in their cell, they mull over the infinite possibilities of their guilt in the neorealist manner made familiar by Robbe-Grillet's Last Year at Marienbad...
After a warm week out in Goldwater Country, Pundit Walter Lippmann acquired "a fine sunburn" and some interesting thoughts. "I have learned,'' wrote Lippmann from Arizona, "that we must distinguish between a war party-of which I have seen no traces out here-and a war whoop party, which likes to be warlike but does not want war." What the whoopers want in Cuba, he said, "are the fruits of a successful war without having to fight." But. he added, "only an invasion, and an invasion only in the first days before the casualty lists come in. would...
Demitrio Boersner, a Venezuelan journalist who writes for La Republica, stated in an interview with the CRIMSON' that the United States must distinguish between two types of anti-Castroism when trying to mobilize hemispheric opinion against the Cuban regime...
...CRIMSON ought to distinguish between what is factual reporting and that which falls within the area of an editorial. In these unsigned articles the CRIMSON does not state the source of the criticism against Taylor. Certainly the editorial of Feb. 25 discussed the HCUA elections under a responsible editorial heading that was in marked contrast to the shoddy journalism in the articles cited by my letter. The CRIMSON implication of power politics by candidates for chairmanship could cast a shadow over the HCUA that might weaken its solid reputation gained by tangible contributions to the Harvard students. These articles demonstrate...