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Most threatening, perhaps, is the increasing level of enemy activity in the northern part, of South Viet Nam, the one part of the country where the rainy season has just ended. Taking advantage of the partial vacuum created by the departure of the U.S. Marines, the North Vietnamese are creeping back into Quang Tri province, just below the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone). Their repair of long unused road and river infiltration routes directly through the DMZ bodes ill for northern I Corps, always a vulnerable area and the scene of the war's bloodiest battles. Already Vietnamese have begun fleeing...
...repression of the Mayday demonstrations was not fascism. The repression came instead from a liberal democracy, caught deep in its own contradictions, trying to maintain order. And, obviously, the traffic blocking action was not revolution. For both sides it was a warm-up, a partial unveiling of tactics with the aim of winning a broad base of support for larger designs. The left deliberately sought to create a crisis for the government, and it seems likely that neither the left nor the government really knew what would happen once the crisis had been set. Thus the thousands of troops...
...fact that the liberal Democrats-by duplicity and stupidity-got us into the war in the first place? We praise the New York Times for attempting to publish the truth about the war at this late date. But the Times' current series of articles can be only partial atonement for the thousands of times that newspaper took the government's murderous lies at face value and distributed them around the world. We are happy that the Faculty ordered ROTC, the uniformed symbol on campus of mass murder, to leave with our class. But the same Faculty still embraces those members...
...this aspect of the grape strike and of American participation which Sharp misses. He fails to recognize that the pattern of nonviolent activity in this country involves either a long-term partial commitment or an extremely short-term full commitment, as in the few hours of a demonstration. The instances of complete devotion to a cause are rare here, perhaps because, as it is popular to suggest, we are a selfish, private people. But perhaps also because we have come to expect instant results to our actions. In a country where we can pick up a telephone rather than wait...
...approval probably will not be visible until midsummer. But it is already clear that the emphasis will be on improving the means of supporting the present system, mitigating the burden that medical inflation places on individuals. The importance of that accomplishment cannot be minimized merely because it is a partial solution...