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...hard to contemplate being called into military service and asked to go peasant hunting in overseas jungles, risking Claymore-mine explosions at every step, when one cannot realistically hate or fear the enemy, and when one has the haunting feeling that he himself may be the actual aggressor, all things considered. It is, in fact, much easier to fear Mr. Johnson's foreign policy...
...presidency as he took 38 provinces to bolster the lead he piled up in the cities of Dalat, Vung Tau and Cam Ranh. In the process, Ky was an invaluable running mate. Out in the countryside, only two Vietnamese political figures are likely to be known by the peasants: Ho Chi Minh and Nguyen Cao Ky. By no means rare was the peasant on election day who, when asked if he had voted for Thieu, adamantly shook his head and said that he had voted...
Protection Money. The raid was not a death blow for the guerrillas, but it was a painful slap. Under the government's counterinsurgency program-financed partly by the U.S.-the guerrillas are feeling ever-increasing pressure, and the government is trying hard to win and hold peasant loyalty...
Widely celebrated in Greece, The Fear has not traveled well. Veteran viewers of French and Italian peasant dramas need not be reminded that the pastoral scene contains as much violence as the city. Writer-Director Costas Manoussakis includes several countryside shots as primitive and beautiful as a cave painting, but most of the time his grossly photographed story seems less written than plowed; his actors are rarely given more to do than grunt and stare emptily at the fallow land. In this case, its dramatic surface has barely been scratched...
...humiliation of the past 20 years, to take it out on the fuzzy-wuzzies, as the 'European' Israelis decidedly did? Is it possible, further, that the anti-Americanism of European intellectuals expresses not so much a wish for the triumph of North Viet Nam's peasant army, as for an American humiliation...