Word: vvaw
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1971-1971
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Reports of mechanized and computerized warfare dominated the first day of hearings yesterday as the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) began their second Winter Soldier Investigation of American military policy in Southeast Asia...
This theme of "impersonal warfare" was stressed throughout the first day of hearings. Eric Herter, VVAW coordinator for the three-day investigation, said in his opening remarks that "We have been participants in the new forms of war which are to replace the unpopular struggle of infantry patrol against guerilla band. Replace it with a greater atrocity than a hundred My Lais--the systematic destruction of thousands of innocent persons, of entire cultures by an automated electronic and mechanical death machine whose killing will be one-sided, unseen, and universal...
...three day hearings, which are open to the public, are being organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW). The VVAW conducted a similar investigation into American war policy last February in Detroit...
David Anderson, a spokesman for the VVAW in Cambridge, explained that "U.S. military policy in southeast Asia is to bomb as large an area as possible with the dual purpose of wiping out the population and destroying the ability of the land to support that population...
...North and South Vietnam last winter to negotiate the People's Peace Treaty, Louise Bruyn, a Newton woman who recently walked to Washington from Boston to dramatize her protest against the war, and Arthur Johnson, a former Navy Lieutenant and member of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW...