Word: indochina
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Hands Off! is a protest against external control in any form: the plays the Caravan has chosen are therefore political only in a very broad sense; it is-the Actor's Prologue about Power and the Indochina War that makes the political intent of the production much more specific. The Prologue moves right into Mrozek's "Strip-tease," a very funny and clearly understandable play. Two people, Man "A" representing rationality and the virtues of inner, intellectual freedom, and Man "B" representing emotionality and the virtues of physical freedom, are confined and gradually deprived of their clothing by a giant...
Despite his wounds and frustration, DeVoss is more fortunate than many casualties among the press corps. LIFE Photographer Robert Capa was killed back in 1954, when the war belonged to France and seemed far away. Since 1965 alone, 34 journalists have died in Indochina, including TIME Correspondent John Cantwell and LIFE Photographer Larry Burrows. Another 19 are still missing, all but two of them lost in Cambodia...
...structure of violence on every level. It is a perpetual state of siege that affects the whole society, from the mugger who kills a man for $20 in a subway to the B-52 pilot who calmly exterminates thousands of yellow men in order to give liberty to Indochina...
...never again will wear the suit he wore at Martin Luther King's funeral. The friend, a postal clerk, wants to know if he could have the suit. Baldwin takes it to him and stays for dinner. A few drinks, an attempt by the friend to defend U.S. Indochina policy, and Baldwin explodes in violent profanity before the man and his family. There is also Baldwin torn between directing the legal defense of a New York friend charged with murder or remaining at the glamorous Beverly Hills Hotel to work on a doomed movie script about Malcolm...
When the final vote was in, the Byrd Amendment had passed, 443. As disappointed students began to file out of the gallery. Senator Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.) immediately took the floor and introduced a new amendment cutting off funds to Indochina. Unfortunately, the language of the bill was such that no one could quite understand it. In one portion of the gallery, ten people stood up and called out, "God speed, end the war," before leaving. The president of the session called for order. Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott (R-Penn.) stood up, interrupting Mansfield, and denounced further introduction...