Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NEWS FROM Da Nang and Hue has been sparse lately. The National Liberation Front is supplying almost all of the information about areas it has taken over in South Vietnam, and it is saying that things have returned to normal in cities it captured only weeks ago. That kind of incomplete report isn't much to go on, but it is consistent with virtually all past reports about the NLF-that it quickly resettles areas, that it is rarely retributive toward the people in areas it takes over, that it especially looks after children. The much publicized suffering in South...
...sketchy reports, in fact, seem to show the way toward the only hope for a nation that has struggled for centuries toward nationalism and self-determination. The ongoing conquest of Vietnam by communist and allied forces is as morally good a thing as there can be in a nation where war has made all situations infinitely complex. It will mean, if nothing else that Vietnam will be under the control of a movement that began among and has been nurtured by its own people. If the NLF's past actions are any indication, it is likely to bring massive reforms...
...tragedy it may spawn, the communist conquest, seem in the context of the past decade's events there is the best recent news from Vietnam. For conquering armies the North Vietnamese and NLF have been unusually nonviolent, especially by comparison to the Americans, and South Vietnamese--although it is easy to be nonviolent when one's enemy isn't putting up a fight. They have taken most of South Vietnam with very little bloodshed and they have not used at all the Americans' most brutal tool of war--mass bombings of civilian and military areas in the cities and countryside...
Everyone has something nasty to say about the Academy Awards. But there is no more to say about the Awards than there is to say about a political convention--everybody votes their own interest. Peter Davis talks about Vietnam, Sinatra talks about Italians, the Academy itself lobbies against politics and that is as important a war for their own industry as they can wage. Movies are a business, and although it was not always so, the Academy Awards are their biggest ad. When I was out at the Oscars a year ago, Jack Haley, who was producing the awards show...
Hearts and Minds. A new cause celebre get its due: It won an Oscar Tuesday night. Sanctification always has its price. A couple of months ago it was natural for the media--a Vietnam film repressed by distributors, big cocktail party talk. Now it's been embraced, awarded, distributed, and in the words of the manager of New York's Cinema I, "business is lousy." They might have done better with it if they had kept it underground, low-priced and under high-pressure. If it is not a knockout the media has been touting, it is still a fine...