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...agree that more young people are enlisting in the armed forces [May 23] because of "a perceived threat to national security." I disagree, however, with Major Robert Pistana's remark that to the new generation of recruits "Viet Nam is ancient history, something the old folks talk about." We have not forgotten Viet Nam. We are using it as a model of what not to do in the future...
...Summit; $19.95), Reporter Hersh sets out, metaphorically, to massacre Kissinger. Hersh quit the New York Times four years ago to devote himself to this project. In 656 pages he blends some new versions of old rumors with some new research (especially about the Paris peace talks that ended the Viet Nam War and about the intricate negotiating leading up to SALT II) that add up to a most unflattering portrait...
...introduction to his book, Hersh takes dutiful note of Kissinger's and Nixon's "diplomatic triumphs": the opening of China, the SALT treaty, the end of American involvement in Viet Nam, most prominent among them. But Hersh denigrates even those accomplishments, concluding, for example, that Kissinger "cheated" his way to a summit and "lied" about the SALT treaty. Hersh adds scattershot allegations about a number of international events and situations, including charges that Nixon received a large cash contribution to his election campaign in 1968 from the military junta that ran Greece in the late 1960s and early...
...Vietnamese in Southern California have come in the past eight years. Cao Duc Thi, 45, an engineer, left Saigon with $40 on April 29,1975, the day before the Viet Cong tanks rolled in. He and a majority of his compatriots live in Westminster (pop. 75,000), a neat desert suburb in Orange County near Camp Pendleton, where many of the refugees spent their first days...
Studies of former Viet Nam prisoner; of war have revealed that communication with fellow captives, sometimes involving complex tapping codes, was a vital factor in their survival. In a book to be published this fall, one former P.O.W. relates that even while he was being beaten by his captors, he could hear other prisoners tapping out the supportive message "God bless you, Jim Stockdale...