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Activist Ngo Vinh Long '68, a social historian on China and Vietnam, began the day by telling the crowd of about 150 that "you can conquer a country, but you can't keep it and break...
...just one drawn at random. The "Short Takes" section is unceasingly left-political--Rennie Davis converts to eastern religion, FBI informant unmasked, grape strike update, "Vietnam-American Friendship Week starts Monday," "Supporters of striking Shell Oil workers are demonstrating Monday." Names mentioned include Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Ngo Vinh Long, Gloria Emerson, Frances Fitzgerald, Ann Froines, Michael Ansara. The lead article was on a company that sold a how-to suicide package. The second story was by a reporter who was getting obscene phone calls. She talked to her harasser and changed his life. Lots of notes on gay politics...
Bill Carter wonders why I did not express my indignation about the fire-bomb attack against Ngo Vinh, Long (Crimson 8 May). Unlike Carter, I did not witness the incident. I did not learn of it until after I had mailed my letter to the Crimson. The letter therefore referred specifically and exclusively to the Crimson report on the Vietnam panel in which both Ngo Vinh Long and I took part...
...have further argued that, if my father's death of slow starvation in a Vietnamese reeducation camp is to have been at all worthwhile. I hope it has served the cause of free speech and human rights through out the world, including Vietnam. These rights belong to Ngo Vinh Long as well as to every other human being...
...deplore any attempt to deprive others of their rights to freedom of expression. I am glad that Long was unhurt, and that he is alive and well in the U.S. But nothing will bring my father back to life: he has been silenced forever. Will Bill Carter and Hgo Vinh Long join me in deploring and mourning his death? Will they also express concern at the possibility that all those who are still in reeducation camps may face the same grim fate as my father? Hue Tam Ho Tal Assistant Professor in Sino-Vietnamese History