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...paddies of Indochina the distinctions of war blurred into My Lai Four and the question became not just who was crazy and who was sane, but who was there and who was not. Westmoreland and LBJ were not there--they dreamed of conquering Gaul. Tim O'Brien, the ex-infantryman and former Washington Post reporter who is the author of this fine novel was, and wondering why he had not gotten on the bus to Canada. And Cacciato was marching the 8,600 statute miles that lie between the Laotian border and Paris. Paris, France...
When Jimmy Carter declared "the moral equivalent of war" against energy waste last spring, every member of his Cabinet was issued the bureaucrat's equivalent of the infantryman's M-16 rifle: a blue loose-leaf notebook loaded with proposed speeches and pointed statistics dramatizing the need for the President's "National Energy Plan." But as Carter's attention drifted to other subjects, the books gathered dust on secretarial shelves. No more. The energy program is in real trouble in Congress, and General Jimmy has ordered his troops to hit those blue books -and the road...
...beaten but left to burn in their memories. Farragut's flare periodically throughout the book. He recalls the decline of his family's fortune and their retreat into eccentricity and shabby gentility. He remembers the beginning of his drug addiction during World War II. As an infantryman in the South Pacific, he got regular rations of codeine cough medicine and Benzedrine. Drugs helped him endure a postwar world that he felt had "outstripped the human scale," and sustained him in his marriage to a beautiful, cruel woman...
...David Wood in Boston and Mary Cronin in New York, went to Associate Editor Peter Stoler, who wrote the cover story, assisted by Reporter-Researcher Fortunata Sydnor Vanderschmidt. For Stoler, the story was the latest round in a long fight. Says he: "I got malaria from mosquitoes as an infantryman in Korea, and I have had termites as a homeowner in Tenafly...
Finally, I must confess a sentimental attachment to ROTC. It saved me from the draft in '69, kept me from going to Vietnam as an infantryman, and may conceivably have saved my life. Had I not been able to get into ROTC in graduate school, I would have been, of necessity, a more direct and odious agent of US imperialism than I became. It's convenient that seniors in '76 don't face that choice, but I hope you'll forgive a little Crimson-like subjectivity in my criticism. Richard K. Betts Lecturer in Government