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...refused to enter the armed forces in 1967, saying, "I ain't got nothing against no Viet Cong; no Viet Cong never called me nigger." The hate mail poured in, heavier and more violent than ever. Somebody once sent him a dead chihuaha for Christmas...
Danny-Joe Driscoll San Francisco As an Estonian whose parents fled So viet persecution during World War II, I abhor the Soviet government's repression of human rights. Still, its people are hu man beings and deserve to be respected as such, if not by their leaders, then by us. It's high time for Americans to take the trouble to look with interest at life in the U.S.S.R...
...intensified by continuing hit-and-run raids across the long, largely open border by Provisional Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.) terrorists based in the Republic. In the border area of Newtownbutler alone, 51 Protestants have been shot by terrorists in the past few years. "It's as bad as Viet Nam here now," said a South Tyrone auto mechanic who had seen two co-workers gunned down by Prove hit men a week earlier. At an angry protest meeting in Newtownbutler last month, thousands of Unionists cheered as Paisley demanded that cross-border roads be sealed with mines and Molyneaux...
...want to leave his native Washington, where he has worked in television for 24 years. Indeed, Mudd's professional reputation rests almost entirely on his reporting in the capital, a fact that seemed to hurt him in comparisons with Rather, who has done tours in London, Viet Nam and Washington. Says Washington Star Political Writer Jules Witcover: "Among the writing press covering politics, Mudd is considered the top broadcast reporter. He's the one guy who really covers politics in the off years, who gets around." Some CBS executives found Mudd to be smug and difficult...
International condemnation of the Vietnamese action was swift. China, which invaded Viet Nam early last year "to teach Hanoi a lesson," warned of the "grave danger" of such military adventures. "In dealing with wolves, it will have merely limited effect to raise a hue and cry," editorialized Hong Kong's pro-Communist daily Ta Kung Pao. "Only with the use of a big stick or of guns can the wolves be driven away or beaten to death...