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...surely cannot be clearer than it is now that this war which brings us the civilian massacres at Ben Tre and My Lai, the destruction of the historic city of Hue, and the death of countless fighting men, including 42,000 Americans, is a horrendous error. This war is not for the benefit of North Vietnam, South Vietnam, or the United States: it is detrimental...
There is little novelty these days in attacking the Pentagon. The war in Viet Nam, the cover-up of the massacre at My Lai, the service club scandals, the inability to answer North Korea's flea-bite seizure of the Pueblo-all these things and more have combined to bring the American military establishment into the noisiest disesteem since before World War II. Wisconsin's Senator William Proxmire, a liberal Democrat-but no doctrinaire foe of the armed services -has won national attention with his disclosures about military overspending beyond original estimates for weapons procurement, notably...
...Revisionist. Earlier this year, China slowly began repairing bridges burned during the Cultural Revolution. As often as not, Peking's maneuvers were designed to steal a march on Moscow. Two months ago, Premier Chou En-lai flew to Pyongyang to embrace North Korean Leader Kim II Sung, who had been branded a "fat revisionist" by Maoist Red Guards in more extremist years. Peking then agreed to exchange ambassadors with the original revisionist capital, Belgrade...
...original film was of combat at Bau Me. Though hardly another My Lai, the action included one gruesome incident. A South Vietnamese soldier pulled a knife from the side of a prostrate prisoner and then plunged it back into his bare stomach. Said Cronkite: "For reasons not entirely clear, the White House has engaged in an undercover campaign to discredit CBS News by alleging that the story was faked. This has been done by prompting receptive reporters and columnists to publish White House and Pentagon suspicions...
...even much difference when the Viet Cong began controlling the village. The big change came, Hammer contends, when massive American forces transformed guerrilla warfare into a conflict in which killing became impersonal-with napalm attacks, free-fire zones and search-and-destroy missions like the one conducted at My Lai...