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...former rifleman in Viet Nam, I cannot condone what Robert Garwood did [Feb. 16]. However, a Government that can forgive draft dodgers who went to Canada and Jane Fonda, who made broadcasts against the war from Hanoi, should be compassionate enough to understand someone who was so psychologically affected by the war that he collaborated with the other side...
...Mexico see things very differently. Reagan believes there will be more stability in Central America if you give more arms to right-wing regimes. This is what you believed in Viet Nam. Mexico is also interested in stability since Central America is on our border and is a sphere of influence in Mexico. But Mexico believes that stability can only be reached if colonial structures are broken--either by reformist or revolutionary means...
...flying from Cuba to Managua, Nicaragua, and unloading a variety of American-and European-made arms, which are eventually smuggled into El Salvador. He backed up his assertions with a slide show that included blowups of documents allegedly written by a Communist guerrilla leader and detailing commitments made by Viet Nam, Ethiopia, the Soviet Union and East European nations to provide military hardware. Perhaps the most dramatic evidence was a series of photographs of a tractor-trailer said to have been captured in Honduras. Underneath the trailer's false bottom was a cache of about 150 M-16 assault...
...South African command insists that it is succeeding in its drive to "win the hearts and minds" of the Namibian people. The claim is a sardonic reminder of Viet Nam, and, indeed, the parallels in this war do not stop there. The 20,000 troops of the South African Defense Force (SADF) vastly outnumber the 8,000-odd SWAPO guerrillas. The SWAPO forces, armed with Soviet-made rifles and light artillery, are no match for the mechanized, often airborne South African troops. And, like the Cambodia-based Viet Cong a decade ago, SWAPO conducts its raids from sanctuaries-this time...
...country. Even so, stubborn resistance continues in the countryside, spearheaded by the Khmer Rouge, the fighting force of the ousted Pol Pot regime. An estimated 40,000 strong, the Khmer guerrillas have managed to hang on to crucial sanctuaries with the help of substantial political and military aid from Viet Nam's hostile neighbor to the north, the People's Republic of China...