NOTES in the NEWS
NOTES in the NEWS Vietnam: Exploding the Hoax At the President's news conference of January 30, a reporter reminded Mr. Nixon of his past appeals for "national unity" on Vietnam and asked whether...
...Our meager attention to the health needs and problems of those millions of Americans living in poverty is, beyond any question, the single most important reason for the sad and intolerable state of health care in the United States...
...It has been a prosperous period for the merchants of death...
...Vietnamization' Forever When Vietnamese military self-sufficiency is discussed by American officers, it is never put in a context of less than two to four years...
...In fact, planning in connection with Vietnamization seems vague and incomplete when viewed from the field...
...phraseology is "maintaining the balance of power between nations"—in the interests of peace, of course—or helping "to preserve democracy"—as in Greece and Spain and Formosa...
...The ACLU was founded in 1920 by Roger Baldwin at the height of the Red scare and anti-union hysteria which followed World War I. For its first thirty years Baldwin, recently honored at an 86th birthday party, directed the organization, clearly establishing the principle that it would defend persons whose civil liberties were threatened no matter how unpopular their belief or purposes might be...
...The Budget discloses that not a single Pentagon boondoggle has fallen victim to the President's reordered priorities...
...The Committee has a clear responsibility to press for answers to these questions, especially in the face of the Administration's determination to hold back on specifics of its "plan...
...We have not, at this writing, seen the President's special message to Congress on foreign affairs, but his State of the Union message offered no substantiation whatever for the bland assurance that "the prospects for peace are far greater today than they were a year ago...
...Nixon casually announced that he would seek new funds this year to move ahead of schedule into Safeguard's Phase Two...
...the United States has armed both Israel and Jordan, and both Pakistan and India, two other antagonists...
...Command solemnly continues to issue communiques of heavy losses by the other side—and relatively small American losses...
...The result could be a new and catastrophic round in the arms race...
...There does not seem to be a fixed timetable, and the costs involved in training and in turning over equipment to the Vietnamese are never mentioned...
...the trial of John T. Scopes, who taught Darwin's theory of evolution in violation of Tennessee law, was a notable early example...
...One American official expressed confidence that the United States would not pull out more than 100,000 troops a year in the next few years, adding that a redeployment of only 60,000 "would be much better" and that, in any event, he did not expect the United States to pull out more than half of its troops...
...Yet the IRS wrote me that such "lectures" did not "appear" to be lobbying activity...
...We just didn't realize how difficult it was for them to see a physician...
...Nixon of his past appeals for "national unity" on Vietnam and asked whether the recent "virtual moratorium on criticism" had enhanced the prospects for peace...
...since the end of World War II it has sold or given away $50 billion in arms compared to weapons disbursements of $16 billion by the rest of the world...
...The investigators' report to the Committee said that "Medicare generally allows payments for the aged which are substantially higher than those paid under Blue Shield's most widely held contracts for the working population, and thus physicians' incomes have become inflated...
...If we look back on the practice of medicine, it's been totally a middle-class function, performed by middle-class people according to their likes...
...Another recent AP story, this one from Saigon, said the battlefield communiques claimed 505 North Vietnamese and Vietcong killed over the weekend, many of them by bombers, helicopter gunships, and artillery...
...As the world's biggest supplier of armaments, the United States must take the initiative and bring its arms exports to an end...
...The U.S...
...Two Americans were listed as killed and twenty-two wounded...
...Last year, after an extensive and illuminating debate, the Senate came within a single vote of defeating the President's "Safeguard" system...
...The threat to the nation's health arising from the shortage of doctors, especially when environmental hazards to health are increasing sharply, calls for an even bolder commitment—a Federal program to pay the costs of all medical students who pledge themselves to serve two years in public health care programs upon becoming doctors...
...Even with all "the fresh billions so recently pumped into the system (through health insurance, Medicare and Medicaid)," said Fortune, "most Americans could still be financially destroyed by a prolonged and serious illness in the family—a virtual impossibility in countries such as West Germany, Sweden, and Britain," which have national health insurance programs...
...The Mess in Medicine Following the lead of the American Medical Association, and in many cases their own desire to make as much money as possible, the private physicians of the country have achieved a sellers' market to such a degree that it threatens to bankrupt the Medicare and Medicaid programs...
...The medical crisis has reached such a point that Fortune concluded in a survey in its January issue that "American medicine, the pride of the nation for many years, stands now on the brink of chaos...
...Spokesmen said some of the enemy dead were reported by aerial observers and others by ground units...
...But the President's proposed budget for fiscal 1971, which provides full funding for maintaining present force levels in Europe through the middle of next year, affords the Senate an opportunity to work its will...
...The brigade count, however, reported five Americans killed and forty wounded, and brigade - level officers acknowledged that only forty or fifty enemy bodies were found...
...While effecting reductions amounting to some $6 billion in defense spending—primarily by reducing manpower —Mr...
...forces permanently stationed in Europe can be made without adversely affecting either our resolve or ability to meet our commitments under the North Atlantic Treaty...
...as President Johnson's former principal assistant for domestic affairs, Mr...
...If we go ahead with this huge combination system, we had better realize that it will cost in the tens of billions of dollars—in my opinion well beyond fifty billion," says Senator Mike Mansfield, the Montana Democrat...
...But it is also argued that it is impossible to reduce the number of men under arms, among other reasons, because of the need to maintain present force levels in Europe...
...has armed Israel's enemies...
...We were more amused than impressed by the announcement of Joseph Califano Jr., the co-chairman of the Democratic Policy Council's Committee on National Priorities, that he had appointed a Democratic "Truth-in-Budgeting Task Force" to scrutinize the President's presentation...
...The bulk of the increase for human resources programs, it should be noted, consists of mandatory raises in social security initiated by Congress and veterans' benefits...
...Communist China may believe in forced indoctrination, but we in the United States certainly do not...
...For all their assurances about the "irreversibility" of the President's troop withdrawal program, Administration spokesmen become coy and evasive when pressed for schedules and commitments...
...No nation is so small or poor that the big suppliers—the United States, the Soviet Union, France, and Great Britain —will not manage among them to sell it arms far beyond its defense needs or financial capacity to support...
...Construction work on American bases throughout the country seems to be continuing, for example, although it is explained that such work is not new construction but is related to upgrading and hardening existing facilities...
...It is equally absurd to suggest, as Richardson did, that a reduction or total withdrawal of American forces from Europe would constitute no significant financial saving to the United States...
...Over the past few years a number of news correspondents have reported the fictitious nature of many of these statistics on Vietcong and North Vietnamese military casualties, but the U.S...
...We hope the opportunity will not be missed...
...Strong criticism in the United States and Britain of this sale was branded by French Foreign Minister Michel Debre as "hypocrisy...
...The Budget serves primarily as a guide to the Administration's intentions...
...Most foreign observers expect Libya to turn over the jets to Egypt, another country which cannot afford them...
...Senator George McGovern, South Dakota, Democrat, called it "a political hoax" intended to "tranquilize the conscience of the American people while our Government wages a cruel and needless war by proxy" and "perpetuates a corrupt and unrepresentative foreign regime...
...Last year, the irrational "Chinese threat" was virtually forgotten while Defense Secretary Laird and other Administration spokesmen conjured up frightening visions of Soviet super-missiles poised for the attack...
...Not only were the employes forced to listen to the oil industry's position, but Shell, apparently with the blessings of the Internal Revenue Service, is going to deduct the cost of these brainwashing sessions...
...The chances for a successful outcome of any one of these assumptions, let alone all three, "must be regarded as, at best, uncertain," the consultants' report concludes...
...industry...
...in addition it dims any real hope of setting up a workable national health insurance system...
...The ACLU also initiated test cases...
...And so it is, in view of the soaring and profitable traffic in arms conducted by these powers and the Soviets...
...The President wants $1.5 billion to complete the purchase of eighty-one C5-A cargo planes—a request that will run the cost for these eighty-one aircraft up to $4.8 billion, as against the Air Force's initial estimate of $3.3 billion for 120 planes...
...the Pentagon total proposed by the President for fiscal 1971 is $73.6 billion—almost as much as the entire budget in 1950...
...In opening the Senate hearings, Chairman J. William Fulbright posed a series of incisive questions: How long will Vietnamization take...
...Nonetheless, a few facts about the President's Budget need to be set straight...
...Section 162(e) (2) (B) of the Internal Revenue Code is quite clear that such lobbying activities are not deductible expense...
...Roger O. Egeberg, has said the Administration is considering a Federally organized medical corps to serve the poor...
...The Boom in Armaments The international trade in arms knows no slack season...
...That establishment, which now consists of some 310,000 troops as well as assorted civilian employes and dependents, currently contributes about $1.5 billion to the nation's balance-of-payments drain...
...It is an insane and ghastly business, the shipping of arms to nations in every tinderbox area around the globe...
...If the White House and the Pentagon have taken to believing their own wildly exaggerated claims, we may be facing an even greater disaster than any that has overtaken us up to now in this miserable war...
...It has forty-four state affiliates, hundreds of local chapters, 130,000 members, and a yearly budget of nearly three million dollars...
...The French sale of 100 costly fighter jets to Libya, although only another of many entries in the massive ledgers of arms sales by governments, deserves some special comment...
...Where the hell is it going to end...
...Today the ACLU is the most important force in the country safeguarding civil liberties...
...Once in a while less noble motives are admitted: Henry Kuss, Jr., the Pentagon's super-salesman of armaments, estimated several years ago that his sales had brought $1 billion in profits to U.S...
...NOTES in the NEWS Vietnam: Exploding the Hoax At the President's news conference of January 30, a reporter reminded Mr...
...The claims made by the Pentagon (and the President) in behalf of this cherished "ultimate defense" have been challenged at every turn by expert scientists...
...The ACLU Looks Ahead For half a century the American Civil Liberties Union has led the way in the struggle to enforce the constitutional rights of free speech and assembly, fair trial, equal protection under the law, security of person, and other civil liberties...
...Credible," it strikes us, is a poor word to use in any context when discussing the ABM...
...The magazine of the world of big business pointed out that "motivated by groundless fears of oversupply, doctors have discouraged the expansion of their own ranks, until now they must acknowledge a serious shortage...
...medical care, particularly the everyday business of preventing and treating routine illnesses, is inferior in quality, wastefully dispensed, and inequitably financed...
...In contrast to these generous allocations for military hardware, the Budget is pitifully penurious when it comes to meeting urgent domestic needs...
...One is that the highly publicized "surplus" of $1.3 billion (over projected spending of $200.8 billion) is a virtually meaningless figure...
...They estimated that more than 100 others must have been killed by American fire power...
...The GIs and the officers who lead them on patrols and in battle comply with higher echelon demands for impressive body counts, but they are often angered by the risks this process sometimes entails and by the whole silly scheme of claiming nonexistent triumphs...
...If these propaganda sessions are not, to use the Code, an "attempt to influence the general public or segments thereof, with respect to legislative matters," I do not know what is...
...For example, by joining in the defense of Dr...
...Will it entail the withdrawal of all American troops, or the retention in Vietnam of a "residual" force of up to 300,000...
...Now the President assures us that while he expects no Chinese strike, the ABM system he proposes "is virtually infallible against that kind of potential attack, and therefore gives the United States a credible foreign policy in the Pacific area which it otherwise would not have...
...A second area of probable—and by no means inadvertent—misunderstanding lies in the President's proud claim that he has succeeded in "reordering priorities" to the extent that "human resources programs" will claim forty-one per cent of total Federal expenditures in fiscal 1971, as against only thirty-seven per cent for national defense...
...The official lies are issued on the spot as facts, even when it is understood that they fool fewer an:* fewer citizens back home...
...Roger Egeberg Assistant Secretary for Health Department of Health, Education and Welfare January 14, 1970 Shell's Game The Shell Oil Company has been forcing its employes to listen to its views on oil depletion and oil imports, and the Internal Revenue Service is apparently going to allow Shell to deduct the cost of this lobbying from its taxable income...
...Budget Trickery President Nixon did not invent the technique of Federal Budget trickery, and it would be unfair to take him unduly to task for the gimmicks and boobytraps concealed in the proposed Budget for fiscal 1971 that he submitted to Congress a month ago...
...As George F. Kennan, the former U.S...
...An officer who took part in the five-day sweep of the mountainside said, "It's a ludicrous game...
...Shell has been requiring its employes during working time to attend lectures at which the company's position on the oil depletion allowance and the oil import program was presented...
...That policy, the consultants suggest, is based on three assumptions: the progressive Vietnamization of the military effort, the stability and cohesive-ness of the Thieu government, and the expectation that the North Vietnamese and Vietcong will do nothing to inhibit Vietnamization or disrupt the Thieu government's stability...
...It has always been argued," says Senator Mansfield, "that bringing a substantial number of forces back from Europe will not affect our defense budget because we cannot reduce the number of men under arms...
...From Saigon comes President Nguyen Van Thieu's assertion that it would be "impossible and impractical" to withdraw all American combat forces this year...
...The President also made much of the fact that his Budget calls for "a smaller percentage of Federal spending for defense than in any year since 1950...
...It is a razor-thin margin, based on arbitrary and probably unreliable assumptions about the state of the economy, the rate of inflation, and the changes likely to be wrought by Congress, as well as by the Administration itself, in the course of the fiscal year...
...But somebody on the other side keeps on fighting...
...What possible use of this information can the employes of Shell make except to write to their Congressmen...
...The latter have traditionally (and properly) been assigned to the cost of "past, present, and future wars" rather than to human resources...
...Senator William Proxmire U.S...
...But these periodic displays of mock horror over who is selling what arms to whom do not stop armaments transactions and are not intended to as the big powers pursue their munitions merchandising more aggressively than ever...
...I am going to request the IRS to reconsider its decision and am going to call upon Shell to pledge not to indulge in any further propaganda sessions unless they allow opposing views to be heard...
...Would the war be re-escalated...
...Nixon fell back on the old, shopworn argument that an expanded "Safeguard" system is "absolutely essential as against any minor power, a power, for example, like Communist China...
...As George Thayer wrote in his book, The War Business, arms sales have doubled in the past decade from $2.5 billion to $5 billion a year...
...In his article, "The Pentagon's Merchants of Death," in the November, 1967 issue of The Progressive, George Sherman reported Kuss' estimate, and the latter's projection of a $100 billion world arms market by 1971...
...The proclaimed cornerstone of the President's policy—the "Vietnamiza-tion" of the war—remains an ill-defined concept that contains the possibility of a perpetual American military presence in South Vietnam as well as the threat of renewed aerial warfare against the North...
...When we spot a target, we shoot up some ammo, call in artillery and gunships, and when all the noise is over, we call in a reasonable count of kills that will satisfy higher authority...
...It involves risking the lives of American men to make enough noise so a decent body count can be reported...
...Increases for education, welfare, health, and urban problems—where these funds have been increased at all —fall short even of keeping up with the rates of inflation and population growth...
...Much of U.S...
...The 'Infallible' ABM The gloomy prediction advanced in the Senate debate last year by opponents of President Nixon's "Safeguard" antiballistic missile system—that the first authorization for the ABM would serve merely as a foot in the door for expanded and accelerated deployment —has now been confirmed by the President himself...
...Apparently Mr...
...The report warned that overcharges and sloppy administration are carrying the Medicare program toward bankruptcy...
...Like other governments that distribute arms, the United States does so under fancy pretexts...
...One of the more sickening forms of such fakery h?« to do with so-called "body counts" issued by the U.S...
...In answer to a reporter's question at his news conference in January, Mr...
...now it provides Egypt with aircraft via Libya...
...For in the 1970s it is truer than ever that every small war can become World War III...
...A nation of fewer than two million population, with a gross national product of only $1.5 billion, Libya obviously does not need 100 fighter jets, cannot afford to pay for them, and does not have the pilots to fly these aircraft...
...Opportunity for the Senate While President Nixon pays lip service to the attractive notion of reducing the ubiquitous American military presence abroad, the State Department has served notice that it intends to make an all-out fight against any cutback in the number of American soldiers stationed in Europe...
...And the peace movement has a clear obligation to press with all the vigor it can muster for the withdrawal of American forces from a war that continues to wreak havoc here at home as well as in Vietnam...
...Nixon actually has a "plan"—and an intention—to put a swift end tb American intervention...
...This has happened often in the past...
...As Mansfield pointed out in his reply to Richardson's address, it is absurd to assume that the 250 million people of Western Europe, with their advanced technology and vast industrial resources, "are unable to organize an effective military coalition to defend themselves against 200 million Russians, who are contending at the same time with 700 million Chinese...
...If these practices continue, it is estimated that the program's trust fund will be exhausted in 1973...
...The survival of democracy demands it...
...An additional billion or so is sought for other Air Force toys—the F-lll, the F-14A, and the new B-l bomber— though each of these has been challenged by experts as both unneeded and undesirable...
...Its national director, John de J. Pemberton, Jr., said as the ACLU began its fiftieth anniversary celebration that in the days ahead the organization would increase its emphasis in the area it has been developing in recent years, "bringing in the large classes of people who've essentially been excluded from civil liberties—the poor, the non-white, youth, prisoners...
...Califano surely has a head start on most of us in the fine art of budgetary legerdemain...
...For cost control over fees charged for Medicare and Medicaid services to be effective, medical resources must be increased rapidly...
...These are the key questions, and they entail much more than the huge amounts to be squandered on "Safeguard...
...Great Britain and the U.S.S.R...
...The danger in undertaking new weapons systems— such as the ABM and MIRV—is that the Russians will conclude that the United States is talking arms limitation "merely as a way of stalling," Kennan said...
...The officer continued: "They want bodies, so we give 'em bodies...
...Its purpose, according to Richardson, is to deter "any potential aggressor" and to promote among the nations of Western Europe, and particularly the members of the North Atlantic Alliance, "the shared confidence that we shall honor our commitments...
...An ACLU that keeps looking forward to new opportunities to preserve and broaden civil liberties—rights now under stepped-up attacks from government and private sources—can be the key factor in the survival of democracy...
...What will the United States do if Vietnamization fails and the South Vietnamese army collapses, as it came close to doing in 1964...
...The U.S.S.R...
...A crash program should be put into effect to add significantly to the nation's supply of doctors and medical technologists...
...Fortunately, the Senate doves appear to be awaking from their long winter's sleep...
...Ambassador to Moscow, pointed out last month, the perils of arms escalation are so great that the risks entailed in some unilateral disarmament are "minimal...
...The principal target of Richardson's attack was the Congressional group, headed by Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana, that has grown increasingly restive about America's perpetual military presence in Europe...
...War is too serious to be left to generals, and peace is too important to be left to armaments salesmen...
...military...
...The United States has been far and away the biggest supplier...
...The projected cost of about $12 billion is acknowledged even by officials to be an amiable fiction...
...In a thoughtful and comprehensive report to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, two staff consultants suggest—after visiting South Vietnam and conducting extensive interviews with American and Vietnamese officials—that the President's policy "rests on far more ambiguous, confusing, and contradictory evidence than pronouncements from Washington and Saigon indicate...
...furnished weapons to Nigeria and France helped arm Biafra...
...Now as it enters its fifty-first year the ACLU's activities range more widely than ever...
...The Vietnamese have apparently not been given target dates...
...Nixon has preserved intact and even expanded the funds allocated for anti-ballistic missile defenses, multiple warheads, and all of the major weapons systems so dear to the military...
...The Budget proposes $152 million for start-up work on a fourth nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, and $1.5 billion for operation and maintenance of the obsolete system of defense against manned bombers...
...The Administration's zeal for accelerated ABM deployment—and its determination to rush ahead with the installation of multiple warheads (MIRV) on American intercontinental ballistic missiles—cast a long and ugly shadow over the U.S.-Soviet strategic arms limitation talks that are to resume this spring in Geneva...
...What is going to happen to people...
...As such it deserves the full support of every thoughtful American...
...As a starter it could contribute the $5 million it spends in a political campaign year on lobbying and the election of the AMA's friends to public office, to the building of medical schools instead...
...This endless circle, which will lead in the end to fiscal exhaustion, can and must be broken...
...Senate...
...We are indebted to the indefatigable I. F. Stone for reminding us that in 1950, the military took sixteen per cent of a $76.7 billion Federal Budget...
...As two prominent Republicans, John W. Gardner and Milton S. Eisenhower, pointed out last month, "It is not enough to smile bravely and tighten the belts of the poor...
...Senator Mansfield has obtained the support of fifty-one of his colleagues—a majority—for a Senate resolution that declares: "It is the sense of the Senate that, with changes and improvements in the technique of modern warfare and because of the vast increase in capacity of the United States to wage war and to move military forces and equipment by air, a substantial reduction of U.S...
...The AMA, if it had a conscience, could do a great deal to help launch a nationwide emergency program of medical training...
...Body Count 'Victories' The fate of Ananias—he was struck dead for lying—has never deterred the Government officials and generals who have been telling the American public falsehoods about the war in Vietnam for many years...
...It cannot be broken by Senator Mansfield's "sense-of-the-Senate" resolution, which will have only advisory effect on the Administration even if it is brought to a vote and passed...
...I was among those who ignored the poor...
...This raised the possibility that the number was exaggerated—deliberately through duplication, or by field commanders sending estimates as actual body counts...
...Senator Charles E. Goodell, New York Republican, declared that "we have not Vietnamized the war, we have cosmetized it...
...Dilemmas thus seem to lie ahead in Vietnam, as they have throughout our involvement in this war that appears to be not only far from won but far from over...
...The stakes are even higher in 1970, and there is urgent need for the Senate to say, "No...
...Command reported 134 enemy troops were killed in the battle...
...In conformity to the crazy-quilt pattern of contradictory rationalizations that has characterized the ABM program from its beginnings in the Johnson Administration, Mr...
...I am all for well-informed citizens, but forcing a group of employes to listen to only one side of an issue is surely not the hallmark of a free democratic society...
...One way or another, the arms-producing nations provide weapons to all parties or potential parties to a conflict...
...A side effect has been that these inflated payments "also served to increase physicians' charges to the general public because a doctor is not permitted to charge more under Medicare (at least theoretically) than he does for his other patients...
...Benjamin Spock, charged with conspiracy to aid in violations of the draft law, the ACLU for the first time became involved in a case that contested the legality of the war in Vietnam...
...Under Secretary of State Elliott L. Richardson fired the opening shot of the Department's campaign in a recent speech to the Council on Foreign Relations in Chicago, in which he warned of "unpleasant consequences" if an attempt were made to dismantle what he called this nation's "major military establishment on European soil...
...We can't think of a better prescription to increase both the quantity of medical service and the quality of Congress at the same time...
...That means the enlargement of present medical schools and the opening of new ones, with the Federal Government providing the funds...
...In fact, the talk in Saigon, among Vietnamese as well as Americans, is in terms of keeping some 250,000 troops there for years...
...With the present shortage of physicians it is hard to see how this can be accomplished on a scale adequate to the health needs of millions of poverty-stricken families...
...What effect would a major new enemy offensive have on the President's "irreversible" policy...
...The Under Secretary for health in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Dr...
...From a staff report to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations February 2, 1970 Sad State of Health Although the critical failure of what has been called the health care "system" touches virtually every American, it is the failure of the "system" to meet the needs of the poor that is most flagrant and most tragic...
...For example, a recent AP dispatch from Nui Ba Den reported that "the Americans pulled off the slopes of Black Virgin Mountain Sunday, claiming a scoreboard victory," although the "mountain caves still belonged to the enemy...
...We have no evidence of any effect yet on the North Vietnamese," Mr...
...Winter, spring, summer, and fall the major powers, and some smaller ones, hawk their deadly wares around the world...
...Doctors, hospitals, and nursing homes have raised their charges to Medicare patients so much that investigators for the Senate Finance Committee have proposed establishment of a system of fixed fees, an idea which organized medicine bitterly opposes...
...Nixon replied...
...France provided the Israelis with Mirage aircraft in the past, then slapped an embargo on such shipments to Israel...
...The AP story then disclosed how battles are won on adding machines: "The U.S...
...They haven't been listening to the poor...
...In the new round of hearings on Vietnam begun last month by the Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Harold E. Hughes, Iowa Democrat, denounced Vietnamization as "a semantic hoax . . . simply an extension of Johnson foreign policy...
...We need now to recognize the mass nature of the problem...
...For a patient even to find medical care can be maddeningly difficult...
...Statistically, Allied forces have wiped out just about every North Vietnamese soldier and Vietcong that could be mustered-—and more...
...Sometimes we know we didn't give anybody more-than a headache...
...Nixon's intention is to let the country's problems solve themselves in fiscal 1971...
...The next time President Nixon or Vice President Spiro Agnew goes before the press to claim that Allied military progress demonstrates that the war can be "Vietnamized," some newsman ought to ask to what extent the official calculations are based on the fraudulent "body counts" palmed off nightly on the people back home...
...In fact, the only significant effect of the peace movement's sharp decline in visibility has been to permit most of the public to accept as valid the highly dubious assumption that Mr...
...But it's all part of the game, and we all play our part...
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