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Further, it revealed deep ignorance of psychological realities in Indochina. How, after years of American falsehood and aggression, could the NLF and the North Vietnamese trust the United States to keep its part of such a delicate bargain? And why, in turn, should the insurgent forces, after years of being beaten and brutalized by the U. S. military machine, care to allow the continuation of the Saigon regime-however temporarily-for the simple sake of American prestige? For in fact, the liberation forces in Vietnam, after years of struggle and base building, could not be expected to behave like...
...that Cambodia made any sense from a military point of view. In fact, each of the major reasons which the Administration cited as provoking the invasion was a greater falsehood than the next. Nixon claimed in his speech that South Vietnam was threatened by the sudden appearance of the North Vietnamese on its Cambodian flank; yet subsequent reports have shown that the North Vietnamese had in fact been drifting westward and waiting cautiously to see what action the rightist military junta of Lon Nol-who had overthrown neutralist Prince Norodom Sihanouk the month before-would take against them...
Gene Bell's purported description of my "policy recommendations" concerning Vietnam (CRIMSON, May 14) is totally devoid of truth. Inasmuch as his letter is one more contribution to a vicious campaign of falsehood and slander on this subject. I would like to set the record straight for those of your readers who may be interested in the facts of the matter...
...oppose taxes in general, and indeed feel that citizens of a nation ought to share in the responsibility and therefore the payment of appropriate services required within the nation. However, the war in Vietnam into which our nation was led through deceit and falsehood and whose cost in lives and property of the Vietnamese and other peoples of Indochina has been incredibly large is not something for which I can in good conscience give my support or feel deserving of tax monies. The will of millions of people in the United States has been regularly thwarted as they have attempted...
...Bertram-a man noble without generosity, and young without truth; who marries Helena as a coward, and leaves her as a profligate; when she is [reportedly] dead by his unkindness, sneaks home to a second marriage, is accused by a woman whom he has wronged, defends himself by falsehood, and is dismissed to happiness...