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...Kudos to Dr. Rusk and TIME for exposing the napalm flap as bilge [March 24]. If few have questioned, surely thousands have suffered in silence the cruel allegation that service in Viet Nam turns decent young men into sadistic beasts. Preposterous. Until he was sent off to war, that serviceman was the son upstairs, the boy next door, the lad down the street. Taught to fight? Yes, but not to murder...
Johnson named Secretary of State Dean Rusk to head a new committee charged with setting up such a body...
...casualties, Rusk discovered that most were caused by the Viet Cong, who follow a deliberate policy of killing civilians. In a hospital in the Mekong Delta, Rusk came across a five-year-old girl who had lost both legs at the knees. The Viet Cong raided her village, and when they discovered that all the men had fled, flung grenades into houses where the women and chil dren were hiding. At another hospital, Rusk witnessed the arrival of 17 civilians who had been badly mauled when their bus ran over a Viet Cong land mine-one of the principal causes...
...load of casualties superimposed on the already overburdened hospitals is unbelievable," Rusk concludes. But the U.S. has kept the system from collapsing and will continue to do more. "It has always been our policy to help the sick and the wounded, whatever the cause, and this we are attempting to do in Viet...
...York Timesman Rusk destroyed the napalm myth, the London Economist just as effectively disposed of another anti-U.S. allegation: that U.S. bombers are indiscriminately killing South Vietnamese civilians. U.S. bombing policy, noted the Economist, is based on "two apparently contrary, yet complementary principles. In certain special zones or in areas where full-scale operations are being waged against the enemy, the bombing is devastating and relentless. But in areas which contain civilians, the most elaborate ground rules are in force to try to stop them from being hurt...