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...already called on the Vietcong to stop accepting aid from the Russian "revisionists." It must be clear to them that the NLF and North Vietnam have been "co-opted" by the revisionists. Russian aid flows to Vietnam in an ever-increasing river, and Russian advisers and technicians control key posts in Vietnamese industry and military administration...
...Harvard Young Republican Club has passed a resolution calling for "an immediate halt to the bombing of North Vietnam and unconditional negotiations with all concerned parties, including the NLF...
Algiers treats the rise and fall of the NLF from its genesis to the annihilation of its last leader in 1957. Pontecorvo uses the terrorist uprisings for a massive dramatic narrative centering on several NLF leaders and the French colonel who sets out to destroy them. He splits the film into episodes delineated by newsreel datelines; his camera has a journalist's preoccupation with showing all the action, which takes precedence over clean-cutting or attractive composition. But at no point is Algiers a documentary--even when the high-grain high-contrast film most resembles aged newsreel footage--and ultimately...
...great tradition of the first neo-realist masterpieces, Rosselini's Open City and Visconti's La Terra Trema. But where those two films dealt entirely with killing and oppression of the weak by Fascists and reactionary capitalists, the killing of innocent people in Algiers is committed mostly by the NLF, Pontecorvo's heroes. In accepting the slaughter of hundreds of citizens, guilty only in their complacent acceptance of a derelict social structure, Pontecorvo emphasizes the validity of necessary social upheaval, regardless of its price. Each death becomes not a crime of the NLF but the tragic consequence of years...
...matter succinctly," they applaud American policy in Southeast Asia for having "bought time for some 200 million people to develop without their being ceaselessly confronted with combined external-internal Communist threats of growing proportions." There is not the slightest suggestion that the Vietnamese people might just possibly prefer the NLF to the rule of Marshal Ky and his cronies and to the wholesale destruction of their country. Such simplistic treatment of the Southeast Asian national liberation movements is paradoxical in a statement that condemns the mass media for "inducing the fears and stereotypes that inhibit rational thought." To take...