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During the Tet offensive in February, 1968, Dr. Nelson was captured by the NLF and held prisoner in the mountains around Hue for two months...
...groups, despite the Vietcong flags of some of our fellow resisters (who for their part of overtly anti-establishment and have lost hope for America except through revolution), despite the direct appeal to us and felicitation on our activities over the head of our government from Hanoi and the NLF, we will not waver in our conviction that we rightly march under those same three banners that preceded the mule-drawn cortege in Montgomery: under the UN flag, symbolizing international concern and universal justice, under the banner of the Church for us who are prophetically Christian, and under the flag...
...fact this criminality is institutionalized in our war strategy. The guerrilla tactics of the NLF have prevented us from fighting a conventional war: we simply can't hold any territory long enough to "win" the countryside (the Hamburger Hill/Huc syndrome...
...have therefore chosen to deprive the guerrillas of their rural bases, to cut off their sources of food, ammunition, and sanctuary. These rural bases, it turns out. include most of the villages between the DMZ and the Mekong Delta. Since the inhabitants of these villages support the NLF-they continue to supply them and to withhold information from the Americans. at any rate-we come to the curious American tactic of "destroying a village in order to save it. "Those are the words of the Air Force colonel who supervised the destruction of Ben Thai (and the lives of most...
...meal to the work of the American Friends Service Committee in the Amputee Ward and Prosthetic Unit at the hospital in Quang Ngai and to their Day Care Center for refugee children in that city, as well as for the medical supplies and surgical equipment they sent to the NLF and North Vietnam. Over 1500 Radcliffe and Harvard students have already committed themselves to a thirty-hour fast beginning on Friday and have arranged for the cost of their meals to be given to the AFSC...