Word: vietcong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They assassinated NLF officials and people accused of being NLF officials, and the program was heavily financed and advised by the U.S.--In 1971. William E. Colby testified at Congressional hearings that the--Phoenix program--which was under his direction--was "an essential element of Vietnam's defense against Vietcong subversion and terrorism...
...from Communism. That is clear: after all, 900,000 Vietnamese came to the south after Ho Chi Minh gained control of the north in 1954. The Crimson's advice to base a judgment of Communist intentions on "statements and actions" is well-taken; one may refer-to the Vietcong assassination lists, the mass murders in Hue in 1968, the thousands of executions associated with rural collectivization of the north (50,000 - 250,000 killed. The Economist April...
...political sense that students have begun to take different positions on issues than they took in the heights--or depths--of the sixties. As always, The Crimson reflects the mood well. The ideology of the sixties Left is still there, including all its most unpleasant features--support of the Vietcong, willy-nilly anti-Americanism. But the tone has become ritualistic and tired, bereft of exuberance...
...William Colby, a top CIA official who will probably be the Agency's next director. Colby, who formerly headed the CIA's dirty tricks division, has been subjected to intense questioning before Congressional committees for his role in a CIA operation in South Vietnam in which over 20,000 "Vietcong" were killed by CIA-sponsored assassination teams. Colby claims that only those resisting arrest were killed in "Operation Phoenix," but the immensity of the death toll and a couple of contrary witnesses make his testimony suspect. At any rate, the CIA has participated in enough extra-legal overthrows of Third...
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