VERSE: Apricots, Orehards And Things With Wings
Sandrich, Nina
set-ups. The food allowance is limited in many situations strong bonds of family and tradition that bind North and to two small bowls of rice a day, the tiger cages.are a South together...
...The response you mock at my mistrust...
...Though they might face several in an orchard months of dislocation and suffering, Vietnam can only where abandoned apricots hope for peace and a hopeful future with the complete spoil in squalor withdrawal of the United States government and all its and intimidating wasps, resources--and then a political struggle could take place...
...as the present violence and repression they face daily...
...Incidentally this happened at NINA SANDRICH the time when the PRG radio was broadcasting the text of the Paris agreement around the clock for three days Apricots, Orchards And Things With Wings so that it would be known throughout the countryside...
...For at least 200,000 political prisoners...
...The one question I asked again Besotted wasps, and again was: "What kind of violence, what kind of invading realms of rottenness, bloodbath might emerge if American military support have quite forgotten was suddenly withdrawn and the Thieu government top- they possess pled...
...The food allowance is limited in many situations strong bonds of family and tradition that bind North and to two small bowls of rice a day, the tiger cages.are a South together and who believe that there are resources reality, the courts provide a mockery of any kind of within the country to find a political solution that will be trial or justice, and there are no guarantees that an initial viable over the long run...
...development aid were also withdrawn...
...A westerner sent to Vietnam sentence will, upon completion, lead to release...
...careful students of the prison situation and have direct The use of economic and military power to impose contacts through relatives and ex-prisoners into most of one's own values and sense of what is right upon another the prisons in the country, are convinced that there are nation is always a pretentious and sinful business...
...The United States Vietnam from his own country, was desperately trying to Ambassador and the Thieu government say that there find some way in which funds and relief could be sent in are perhaps 35,000 prisoners of all categories, mostly that would not be ripped off through the patterns of corcommon criminals...
...And as a corollary to this, "What kind of star- retaliatory stings...
...Knowledgeable Vietnamese who are ruption that are so rampant in the Thieu government...
...That is, in prison too long now America, with a sense of noblesse oblige primarily because they, in some way or another, have and responsibility, has sought to force Vietnamese people expressed opposition or less than total loyalty to the to live up to what America thought was best for them...
...vation and misery would you face if American relief and You say it's safe to wander there...
...from the people with whom we talked was invariably But answer this - the same, a desperate plea that we tell our Congress and does inevitable decay the American people to withdraw all American financial evoke depravity...
...He was threatened with imprisonment if he did not desist at once...
...It is hold a meeting to talk about alternatives to war or if now time for all American people to accept the guilt for they are found with peace propaganda in their rooms...
...fallen to earth, Myth #4: South Vietnam desperately needs our con- intoxicate air...
...aid, both military and for various aid projects...
...they have always been able like an insect orgy to feed themselves...
...our destruction of Vietnam and make amends for the A journalist was recently arrested for translating Amer- tragedy we have wrought by seeing that our government ican government documents into Vietnamese...
...This is exactly a rich agricultural country...
...Students are still arrested if they The pretentiousness of these claims is now clear...
...A Buddhist withdraws from this foolish and impossible effort to leader, shortly after the signing of the Paris Accords, wring out of the tragedy some self-satisfaction...
...translated the agreement into Vietnamese, mimeographed copies, and sent his monks out to distribute it in the 00000000900000 countryside...
...The Thieu government can only grow more repressive...
...In our orchard It is made possible by our taxes which provide 80 per- apricots unharvested, cent of its total budget...
...At this with the purpose of determining how financial aid could point there is no way of being sure about how many be made available to the people of GVN areas of South prisoners there are in the country...
...tinuing financial support...
...innocuous now, This response was confirmed by many of the Americans celebrate split legacies with whom we talked, particularly those who sensed the of indifference and disgust...
...present government...
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...They said or do such enervating passions that whatever might ensue could not possibly be as brutal follow indolence of ours...
...and No emanation the hunger and suffering that might be entailed would reels the mind be short-lived if they could return to their fields...
Vol. 100 • March 1974 • No. 2
