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...Bill Mallin (A) d. Tim Koch...
...sheen, the amiably unscrupulous characters and the spectral tugs of mysterious forces are all reassembled-and hardly the worse for wear. Maggie Radcliffe, a fortyish American rich beyond telling, is trying to rid herself of an old hanger-on named Hubert Mallin-daine. He is stubbornly settled in one of Maggie's three houses at Nemi, south east of Rome, where votaries once worshiped at the temple of Diana. Hubert claims squatter's rights on the rather shaky grounds of his alleged descent from Diana and the Emperor Caligula...
...Terror is a weapon as real as a gun -and sometimes more deadly. For it can kill not only the body but the spirit of those lives it touches with fear." So begins Terror in Viet Nam by Jay Mallin, a new book that in brief (114 pages), pointed style systematically analyzes the Viet Cong's use of violence. Mallin, a longtime Caribbean reporter (five years for TIME in Cuba) who flew to Viet Nam in 1965 to research his grim inquiry firsthand, quotes Che Guevara for the Red chapter and verse on terrorism. "Violence," asserted...
Viet Nam has become the classic arena for the Communist use of the tactic of terror, which Mallin rightly defines as violence inflicted by armed men on helpless civilians. Whether it be mining of roads, machine-gunning of buses, kidnaping villagers, burning homes, or torture and murder, the Viet Cong employ "brutality with a purpose": to destroy the morale of the Vietnamese citizenry and discredit the Saigon government. Any opportunity will do. When typhoon rains caused massive flooding in the fall of 1964, the Viet Cong fired repeatedly at evacuation helicopters carrying civilians...
...cities, the "urban guerrillas," of whom Mallin estimates there are at least 500 professionals in Saigon alone, seldom dare to attack an American or Vietnamese official on the streets, prefer to roll a grenade into a crowded bar or toss a plastic bomb into a teeming marketplace. The purpose is to erode confidence in the government's ability to provide protection and to try to "discourage business activity, cause investment capital to flee and, in general, to undermine the economy...