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...in the lyricist and playwright of such shows Vietnamese homes and countryside, it is lived...
...That there may be some substance to these anxieties other meaningless piece of paper which holds out the comes in the form of rumors to the effect that Panamanpromise of a solution while plastering over fundamental ian Finance Minister Jose Guillermo Aizpu met secretly differences...
...While there has been considerable United States s till holds most of the key political, military talk during recent years of a new treaty to finally settle and economic trump cards, and that General Torrijos' the issue of Panamanian sovereignty over the Canal bargaining pos tion is in no way analogous to that of the Zone, few really believed that much would come of it...
...the precious land has been ravaged by more than our shells...
...He says, "Somewhere RAYMOND A. SCHROTH: Associate Editor ANNE ROBERTSN: Editorial Assistant COLIN L. WESTERBECK, JR.: Movies JOHN FANDEL: Poetry run the sardonic lines: BRIAN WICKER: Great Britain ALAIN WOODROW: Paris HENRY TEN KORTENAAR: Rome JOHN COONEY: Dublin "Are the Africans in Africa EDWARD S. SKILLIN: Publisher JOHN BRUBAKER: Advertising Manager Prepared for independence...
...Can they fill the air with smog Second class postage paid of New York, N.Y...
...In other words: winning on his Unfortunately, donations have now own terms, despite the Paris agreements...
...Kathleen Ellen Jennings 38 THE POPES AND THE DICTATORS: Gabriel Gersh 41 To the Editors: A funny thing happen- BOOKS: Talcott Parsons, J. Donceel 42 ed to "Sisyphus" as he was going up JAMES O'GARA: Editor JOHN DEEDY: Managing Editor the hill [Jan...
...If that cannot be arranged, then it seems that the Administration readers who believe in what Commonweal stands for have simply put would settle for a prolonged military stalemate, passing the political proboff their intent to help, and we lem along to its successor...
...So far 1381 do- could negotiate an end to the fighting...
...William Calley, murderer of 22 help- can never wash our hands of Vietnam...
...Our planes fly recon- called on the President to "chart a new beginning" in naissance missions over the North-tempting targets for Indochina by fulfilling our obligations less to governVC fire...
...Their rivers with pollution...
...10016 MUrray Hill 3-2042...
...It sometimes seems that the American when it suited us...
...At least eight thousand U.S...
...As long as the United States continues large- those Catholic bishops in Vietnam who last month called scale military aid to Saigon, ending the war is not a on both sides to stop fighting and release all political Vietnamese decision...
...That is neither peace nor honor...
...Granted that the Secretary of State...
...oil-rich sheiks vith whom Kissinger recently did business...
...Peace, says Thieu, "is territorial nors have contributed $23,390-a security, protection of the harvests, production increase, self-development...
...Single copies 50c To keep employees from employment...
...peace but in moving the decision to a Vietnamese de- For the tin ie being, we can reinforce the voices of cision...
...Yet Kissinger and Panamanian Foreign Minister Juan Nevertheless, c ;rtain shifts in relative bargaining strength Antonio Tack have signed a "Joint Statement of Prin- have occurred since Torrijos came to power in 1968 ciples" which outlines the new approach to six basic which may pre sage a more successful outcome for Panissues that have stalled negotiations since they were ama this time around...
...while we mu: t disassociate ourselves from Thieu, we Meanwhile, Lt...
...We burned, bombed and left town celebrity...
...rather it should have -THE EDITORS admitted that the war might go on for 20 years...
...explore the possibility of using some of Libya's $3 billion These treaties, which were designed to deal with prob- in annual oil revenue to finance the construction of a lems of the existing lock canal, a new sea-level canal, and new sea-level canal...
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...isthmian nation of Panama may come as something of There are ; number of reasons, however, why the a surprise, even to those foreign policy savants who adoption of si ch a deja vu attitude toward the present closely follow the peripatetic exploits of our present negotiations may be a little premature...
...by Commonweal Publishing Co., 232 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y...
...Not only do they run forgotten petty skirmishes, as outposts and crossroads changed hands, there, but they run somewhat farther, changed flags, and changed hands again...
...The canal, to be jointly owned, would certain defense matters, were quickly relegated to the not only give the projected Egypt-Libya Confederation pages of diplomatic history when the public in both control over the world's two most strategically significant 15 March 1974: 28...
...And Prepared for independence...
...Printed in the USA and published weekly...
...In the last year almost and films as Finian's Rainbow and 60,000 Vietnamese have died-ambushed, assassinated, blown-up in nowWizard of Oz...
...point has been with the crisis of oil supply, the more In view of the fact that little progress toward a new serious long-term threat may lie in the political and militreaty has been made since the 1964 riots, one might tary uses to which these massive new oil funds could be conclude that the Kissinger-Tack agreement is just an- put...
...Indeed they do run somewhere, namely, HONOR IN VIETNAM in the book, Rhymes for the Irreverent by E. Y. Harburg, famed and gifted In American homes the Vietnam war is now seldom mentioned...
...Gifts of any fessed, now that he is no longer responsible for our policy, that the Nixon size will be deeply appreciated...
...But Vietnam is more than a "political" problem simply want to tell such friends that which can be solved by leading the electorate to believe that as long as our there will never be a better time boys are not dying we need not be concerned...
...Since the so-called cease-fire, there and in somewhat different order from have been 818,700 new Vietnamese refugees and, in Cambodia, 500,000 the version recalled by the redoubtable new victims of the war...
...000*00000000*0 KISSINGER IN PANAMA THIS HZMISPHZRA'.S CANAL That Henry Kissinger flew on February 7 to the small countries beca ne aware of their content...
...We feel sure many "win...
...Commonweal: 27 A better course would have been to tell the people that capacity for moral evasion and collective self-deception we were ending our military engagement because it was is so great that there is little chance, within the lifetime wrong and that we still had a moral obligation to en- of these so-celled "best and brightest" Americans most force the Paris accords and rebuild the country we had responsible for our folly, that we will face the full imdestroyed, even at economic sacrifice to ourselves...
...Administration should never have talked of "peace...
...14 a year...
...VERSE: Nina Sandrich 34...
...According to Do they have enough delinquents the National Academy of Sciences, our 100 million pounds of herbicides 'Mong their juvenile descendants...
...slowed to a trickle, and this, ironically, during the very week when There is good evidence that the responsibility for the failure of the new and substantial increases in Paris agreement falls in large measure on the unquestioned alliance beboth first- and second-class mail tween our Administration and Thieu, with our government, with Thieu as posts confront us with additional a surrogate, still trying to achieve some version of the good old American money problems...
...We give Thieu over one billion dollars a year ments and me re to people-"to millions of war victims in military aid, with an additional $600 million marked and other disa Jvantaged who cry out for our help...
...Foreign 516...
...plications of l chat our pride and violence have done to The major contradiction in our present policy is that this once rich and beautiful little land...
...Only the citizens are dying without rice...
...nice figure but still some dis- It consists of weakening the Communists, defeating them, annihilating their tance from the $35,000 we need...
...CORRESPONDNEWS & VIEWS: 26 CORRESPONDENCE: 27 EDITORIALS: 27 ENCE THIS HEMISPHERE'S CANAL: Steve C. Ropp 28 AFFIRMING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: Peter Steinfels 30 WE MUST NOT FORGET: George W. Webber 31 Relevant Rhymes THE OTHER SOUTH VIETNAM: Gabriel Kolko 35 VIETNAM IN FICTION: Thomas Powers 39 New York, N.Y...
...We made it our less people, is out on bail and may even become a small- war over 20 years ago...
...After all, it was in 1967 that three new draft last year with Colonel Muammar Qaddafi of Libya to treaties were introduced to the public with great fanfare...
...Or employ enough machines US and Canada...
...That will be the we have not truly followed through on Secretary of task of future Presidents, professors, priests, journalists State Kissinger's December statement that: "We have and novelists who must guide the nation through public succeeded not in guaranteeing necessarily a permanent recognition of its guilt...
...ad- and civilian prisoners, and we can endorse the provisers accompany Saigon troops and, according to VC posals of Sen ator Edward Kennedy who, in January, charges, direct them in combat...
...tax collectors, their assassination squads...
...To wit, Meanwhile, the Saigon economy is in chaos: soaring prices and 20-25 ON THAT GREAT CIVILIZED MORNING percent unemployment in the cities...
...The Administration's intent to take One critical difference between 1967 and 1974 is the this current round seriously seems clear from the fact pervasive presence today of Arab oil money...
...Even Melvin Laird has conthan now to help us...
...renewed in 1965...
...This week we ask friends of Clark Clifford now argues that our man in Saigon, Premier Thieu, is the Commonweal for help in getting biggest obstacle to peace, to a truly representative neutral government that our 50th Anniversary fund drive off dead-center...
...dropped between 1961 and 1971 have destroyed crops, killed "lots" of (Continued on page 46) Montagnard children and wiped out 36 percent of the mangrove swamp forests-valuable breeding grounds for fish-which will not be restored for FUND DRIVE 100 years...
...enough...
...One woman at a market said: "The Are the Africans in Africa big men can take it easy...
...Sisyphus...
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...While the that elder statesman Ellsworth Bunker has been put in Nixon Administration's main diplomatic concern to this charge...
Vol. 100 • March 1974 • No. 2
