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...encouragement of the North Vietnamese delegation. As he recalled: "The Vietnamese were saying that now was a time to act, that it might be possible to set off a chain of events that would end the war." Davis then hit the circuit, appealing to college audiences with the slogan: "Unless the Government of the U.S. stops the war in Viet Nam, we will stop the Government...
...bloody logic from the Maoist metaphor that compared the guerrilla to a fish in the sea of humanity. Viet Cong terrorists viewed village officials as legitimate targets and the murder of innocent peasants as ideologically justified. "It is better to kill ten innocent persons," according to a Radio Hanoi slogan, "than to let one guilty person escape." Countless peasants fled their homes to escape terrorism. U.S. military power accelcrated the process. In adapting traditional weaponry to guerrilla warfare, military strategists placed heavy reliance on body counts and too little emphasis on the lives of innocent civilians...
...months. Foreigners as well as Koreans are taught taekwondo, the local version of judo and karate, and are put through such rigorous training as running five hours at night, sometimes through rough mountain terrain, shouldering 100-lb. sandbags. "Running, running, running," in fact, is the training slogan...
...disagree with those who seek to condemn a member of the University by slogan and denunciation and still assert that the question of war crimes is an important one. Indeed, whether the Government Department Faculty realizes it or not, war crimes have become a topic of quite polite and scholarly discussion. In the most recent issue of the New Republic, Professor Richard Falk, certainly no "vigilante," urges the impeachment of President Nixon for three types of war crimes, including crimes against humanity (genocide). It may offend the members of the Government Department that some of their colleagues might be accused...
ment. A free rock concert had been scheduled for 7 p.m. on the Monument grounds by the People's Coalition for Peace, and Justice, which plans massive civil disobedience next week around the slogan, "If the government won't stop the war, then the people will stop the government...