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FRIDAY'S PROTEST against a Honeywell Corporation recruiter, the largest demonstration here since the spring of 1972, is a heartening indication that students haven't lost their capacity for outrage. Honeywell helps enable the United States and General Thieu to visit death, repression and devastation on Indochina--as the company's nature as a profit-seeking manufacturer of weaponry compels...
Honeywell manufactures bombs used by the United States during the Vietnam War, and now sold to the Thieu regime. Company spokesmen claim that Honeywell is "a customer of the Defense Department," and that the implementation of their products is beyond the company's control. The protesters charge that Honeywell is an accomplice to genocide, and that its representatives are not welcome at Harvard...
DESPITE THE VIETNAM cease-fire, the March 1973 Defense Marketing Service Intelligence Report noted that Honeywell would have a contract to produce $15 million worth of Rockeye bombs, in both calendar years 1973 and 1974. Honeywell bombs are used now by Thieu's pilots in bombing NLF territory in violation of the cease-fire. Rockeye II bombs were used by Israel in the 1973 Middle East war, as reported by the October 29, 1973 Newsweek...
...peace settlement at least has ended the war's most brutal aspects. When Congress eventually cuts off the aid which props up the Thieu regime, the Vietnamese can bind up their wounds and follow their dreams in developing their society. Justice has been sidetracked temporarily in Chile, but justice is winning in Vietnam, and the rest of us have learned something about the impregnability of the human spirit...
Wednesday evening, Feb, 13, I attended the British television film, shown in Hilles library, entitled "Viet Nam--A Question of Torture." I learned that 80% of the funds which support the Thieu government are supplied by the U.S. government, that there are presently about 200,000 political prisoners in South Viet Nam, that seventy-year-old women and fifteen-year-old children are tortured when suspected of sympathizing with "the other side," that thousands of people--men and women--are imprisoned in tiger cages, and that those who are kept in the cages for a few years experience atrophy...