Word: vietcong
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...Harvard political sociologist will spend eight months in Vietnam working with Vietcong defectors in as effort to improve the "Open Ar me Program"--the official attempt to bring more of the Vietcong over to the government...
...source of the spoken commentary is apparently a mystery to the AFSC. The narrator is at times ridiculous ("All the Vietcong weapons were discovered to be foreign-made") and at times plain wrong ("The Geneva Convention divided Vietnam into two countries--North and South.") Sometimes the sound-track has no connection with the pictures: we hear the sounds of a furious battle, while watching a column of grinning soldiers march casually across a bridge. Worst of all, the film makes no attempt to give the audience the historical or immediate background of what he sees. The war is treated...
...inadequate coverage, because of American and South Vietnamese security measures.) Even the atrocity scenes, some of which seem staged, do not add up to a statement about the horror of war. The editing is either crudely ironic or very artless: after a long sequence of the torturing of a Vietcong prisoner, we cut to a group of white-clad schoolgirls singing songs...
...women in city hall--women who are sympathetic to the problems of their sisters. We need political power.' American women, she says, are treated with universal condescension. She talked with women law students as if they were new members of the Special Forces undertaking their first Vietcong reconnaissance. "It takes courage, real physical and moral courage, to aspire to full dignit," she told them. "Aspire, again," she said. "No little girl wants to be a millionaire or even an astronaut...
...apparent assumption that a simple increase in violence, without confronting political and economic problems, can force the Communists to accept an inherently intolerable solution. The Times also reported that American officers were puzzled at the Communist refusal to yield ground in the battle on the Chuprong Massif. Apparently the Vietcong are not using a similar conceptual scheme...