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...passed numerous Chinese and Russian Jeeps and new Soviet trucks, but very few civilian cars. Traffic consisted mostly of bicycles and bullock carts. Hanoi itself was very much as I remembered it-a 19th century French colonial city of yellow stucco buildings, scrupulously clean streets lined with lichee, pine and tamarind trees. There is heavy bomb damage on the outskirts of the city, especially near the airport. But despite the repeated U.S. air raids, I saw little sign of destruction. Hanoi is certainly no Hiroshima...
...William Kunstler, known for his defense of the Chicago Seven, arrived at Wounded Knee to represent the leaders of the American Indian Movement (AIM). Carrying fresh proposals in a brown briefcase, two Indian lawyers dashed back and forth in a Cadillac between the Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Pine Ridge and the AIM fortress. A major sticking point was the Justice Department's threat to arrest any Indian militants leaving the trading post and confiscate their weapons as evidence. It was largely to carry out that threat that the Justice Department had kept its cordon around the area...
Before it ended, the eleven-day siege of Wounded Knee had thoroughly disrupted the rest of the 2,400-sq.-mi. reservation. In the town of Pine Ridge, 20 miles southwest, the BIA office sent workers home and stopped distributing welfare checks...
...adults are idle, since virtually all business on the mammoth reservation has come to a halt. Families wanting to take in the action have come to Pine Ridge in the dilapidated cars with crunched fenders that are the Indians' trademark. Justice Department people, a few in coats and ties but many more in flak vests, baseball caps and heavy boots, come and go in the area of the BIA building. It is a reunion for many of the federal marshals, distinctive in their flag-bedecked blue jumpsuits. Across the street, on a dried mudbank, sit a line of solemn...
Last November, the tribal council at Pine Ridge voted to condemn the occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs building. A tribal court order enjoined Means and another AIM leader, Severt Young Bear, from assembling in Pine Ridge. In turn, AIM tried unsuccessfully to persuade the council to impeach Wilson, charging him with corruption. Dorothy Richards, secretary to the tribal court at Pine Ridge, explains: "Sioux are free-thinking people, but AIM demands total obedience. So we don't have too many AIM people here. Most of the ones in Pine Ridge are outsiders, and we hate people coming...