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...moral emptiness in the eddies of Viet Nam recalls the funk and disillusion that followed World War I. Someone has suggested that the U.S. after Saigon fell was something like Germany after 1918. The analogy, farfetched and literally false, contains a touch of truth. World War I was hard to beat as an example of dunderheaded, pointless slaughter. The men who fought it hated it just as much?and even in the same vocabularies?as the men who fought in Viet Nam. They went into it with the same illusions: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, Horace told...
Your story about possible P.O.W.s in Laos [June 1] describes retired Lieut. Colonel James ("Bo") Gritz as "a former Army public affairs officer who served in Viet Nam." The implication is that his service consisted of briefing the press in Saigon, and that he has no business now leading commandos into Laos...
...diploma today and cherish it as the culmination of a nine-year personal odyssey. He has come a long way. How many Harvard students finished 485th out of 522 in their high school class (and admit it without blinking)? And how many Harvard students participated in the evacuation of Saigon in April...
...distance between the Saigon embassy and the paths of the Yard is incalculable. But whether Chuck Hamlin is pushing helicopters off carriers, cramming for an exam, or selling real estate, he is doing it. Bold assertion belongs to a previous time, perhaps, but that hasn't stopped...
...provisos, however, allow U.S. citizens to bring in an unlimited number of immediate relatives - spouses, children and parents. The law also permits 50,000 political refugees a year to enter the U.S., and both Congress and the President are empowered to bend that limit. Thus, since the fall of Saigon in 1975, Congress has admitted 450,000 Indochinese. When the first of 125,000 Cubans and 12,000 Haitians began descending on Florida shores last year, President Jimmy Carter declared them "entrants," a legalism that entitled the newcomers to less financial aid than refugees - and allowed most of them...