Word: vietcong
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...event, as a condition of peace in Vietnam, it is necessary to accept a coalition government, how would you reconcile the disparate attitudes of the present Saigon government and the Vietcong...
...phenomena, prevented from developing in peace, are instantly exploited by a Hollywood desperate to be the first on the marketing bandwagon. Thus Hollywood supplies a hippie to the curious netherworld between San Francisco and New York--a hippie one step closer to reality than John Wayne's faceless chattering Vietcong, but already a stock figure for a director to plug into any context available...
...movie updates the book to present policies, which give the soldiers more freedom of action such as torturing a Vietcong infiltrator because he's carrying the cigarette lighter of a dead Green Beret...
...first time in my life, I was standing on one side and my government was standing on the other," said one participant. "We finally found out what it was like to be Vietcong," said another. Soldiers were coming at you with gas masks on and sheathed bayonets drawn. Tear gas canisters exploded, and people were being dragged off for "transgressing a police line," like Norman Mailer...
There was a connection there, we all realized at once. The war is America, and America is the university. And suddenly the university became the battleground, in a comfortable, fun university-way. From being students we had gone to become Vietcong at the Pentagon, then to become blacks15Ronald H. JanisWashington, D.C., October -- Soldiers defending Pentagon watching demonstrators begin to stick flowers down their rifle barrels...