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VOL.4/ NO.1
GITS UNITED
AGAINST THE WAR IN INDOCHINA
Brase RB
Srie fs is published in the spirit of the Declaration of Independence ane
the United States Constitution, [tis a free press, published by active duty GT's
stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Bragg Briefs is dedicated to realizing
the vision of the American Revo
lution of liberty and justice for all peoples.
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SPARE CHANGE???
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oUSSF SHOW STILL ON
PICKETING
SUPPORTS
LETTUCE
STRIKE
For the past five months the lettuce workers in
the Salinas Valley of California have been on strike.
After years of stoop labor, busting backs for 60 cents
an hour, and working 12 to 16 hours in the field, the
fields are empty, and the migrant workers ihere are
saying-Viva Huelga! The strike boycott is against
Bud Antle. a rich lettuce ~grower who produces a-
bout 40% of the NationTs lettuce. Antle has refused
to negotiate a union contract with the migrant farm
workers. Cesar Chavez and UFW have called for a
national boycott of all Bud Antle lettuce to pressure
them into opening their money bags.
Last week the North Carolina Lettuce Boycoti
Committee started its first action in conjunction with
the national lettuce boycott that has been called by
the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, as
they posted a picket line at the Colenial Store locat-
ed in the Eutaw Shopping Center. The effects were
felt by the management of the store almost immed-
iately and they found it necessary to call out the
Fayetteville police and a member of the City Coun-
sil in an attempt to destroy the beycott effort.
cont. on page 3
The scheduled performance of the USSF show
on Fort Bragg for March 14th has been thumbed down
by General Tolson and his brass band. TolsonTs de-
cision to ban the show has drawn sharp criticism
from Gis and several Congerssmen and showed a bla-
tant disregard for the constitutional rights guaranteed
to Gls.
Fumbling for a loophole, in view of the practical
nature of the show, TolsonTs catch-22 centered on
what he termed the ~inflammatoryT !anguage of the
script. Fellow WACs and Gis BEWARE! Inflammatory
language may be detrimental to doing your detail.
TolsonTs objection is flakey at best. Already in a
three week period, close to 2000 Gls at Bragg have
signed their names to a petition to Congress in sup-
port of the show. From the Gls point of view, the
USSF show is right on. It may present a problem to
Army review boards because it gives them bad vibes.
Cumberland Auditorium is a taxpayersT auditorium.
Cumberland Auditorium is a taxpayersT auditorium.
Since the Gis at Bragg are an integral pait of the
community in Fayetteville, it seemed a fair altema-
tive to allow the show to be performed their. But
Shanks. the man whe runs the auditomum, has ex-
nressiy opposed reiting his auditorium to the Gis on
the grounds that he does not want to have a oJane
Fonda anti-war demonstration�
A court injunction was filed on February 26ih in
federal districi couvt in Clinton, NC by Fort Bragg
In spite of General Tolson and the manager of the
Cumberland County Auditorium, the | ISSF show with
Dick Gregory, Elliot Gould, Donald Sutherland, Bar
bara Date, Peter Boyle, Jane Fonda, and the rock
group Suamp Dog, will be held!
It will be staged in three shows"one Saturday, Mar.
13 at 3 pm "one Sunday, Mar. 14 at 3 pm and one
Sunday evening at 8 pm.
It will be held in the Haymarket Square Cojfee-
house in downtoun Fayetteville, and it will cost $2.50
a ticket.
The coffeehouse staff had hoped there would be
no need for ary charge, but even though the perforie
ers are coming for nothing, expenses will be more than
$3,000. Swamp Dogg will cost $1,000, and there are
expenses for lighting, housing arrangements, security
and advertising.
Everyone had hoped to get a larger place than theT
coffeehouse, but the advantage for the Gl is that be-
cause of a seating capacity of 450, every seat will be
good. No one is going to be more than about fifty feet
from the Stage. . :
The show is also going to be the subject of a film.
a howimportant a film it becomes depends on what
lappens this weekend. But it should be noted that the
people uho filmed oWoodstock� tried, but failed, to
get rights for this show.
Tickets can be purchased at the Coffeehouse.
Gls to contest this grossly unconstitutional m
ove by
Shanhs. Shanhs opposition was clearly evidenced at
the Friday hearing. Constantly alluding to Jane Fonda,
and to the show as a political rally, the purpose of
which was to incite people and make speeches, Shanhs
remarks were clearly indicative of the same biased
reaction of his military buddies.
The brass and the Fayetteville business community
are attempting to railroad the Gls in their desire fo.
the show and Judge Butler is helping them. He has
shoved the case under his lap and is delaying his ruling
until March 6th, eight days before the show.
This conspiracy to inciie Gls by Shanhs and mil-
itary authorities is obvious in view of the fact that
Shanhs did not read the proposed script at all but
relied on the opinion of Bragg commanders.
USSF is coming to Fayetteville whe thei Shanhs or
Tolson or Major Scholl like it or not. If necessary, it
will be held at Haymarket Square C »ffeehouse. Once
again the Army has shown that the New Modem Army
is nothing more than thirteen letters on a picce of
paper. Fort Bragg recently received a $3 million mod-
emizaiion allotment and our suggestion is that either
the Army return the money to the taxpayers along
with an apology for the lies ana deceit about moderm-
ization Oo: save the money to hire crews to clean up
the shit that 1s going to cone down when Bragg blows
apart from afi tec unventea irusiaulons building up.
ETA is casuy changed to FTMA with M tor modem
page 2
MAY IS COMING
Disband and Bury
The soldiers in the 28th Civil Affairs Company are
taking their turn at the annual IG inspection, and what
~a farce it is.
' They have all been forced to buy new toothpaste,
' toothbrushes, and'soap, which must be left in the o-
-riginal boxes. Some of the GITs threw their boxes for
the toothpaste away.So they have to buy a second
tube.
On Friday, March 5, the company commander
went through the barracks, picked up one manTs pac-
kage of injector razor blades and threw it on the
floor. He may have thought it was empty, but if he
had looked more carefally, he would have seen it was
not. The day before he had thrown around even more
things as he stormed through the inspection.
After the first haircut inspection he angrily su-
moned all the officers to a meeting, told them he
was going to cut their g.d. throats and then dis-
missed them.
In short the whole company has been a madhouse
for the past two weeks.
What is the answer to this lunacy?
All of the men know and even some of the ca-
reer officers concede that the only thing that can be
done with the 28th is to disband and bury it.
What else can vou do with a company which
doesnTt do anything more important all year long
than prepare for an IG?
THE WAR ENDS IN MAY
Respect a private, not today
So O.C.S. seemed the only way
Six months of life I sacrificed
For what;I have, too high a price
More bread and freedomTs what I got
Responsibility I was taught ~
Authority was given to use
But only within the written rules.
Those who wrote the rules were blind.
Some, indeed,-had lost their mind.
Major and General in jobs misplaced
Ill fitted in the human race.
Once a cog in the Army machine
Retirement is the only dream.
An officer can command respect.
Requiring it will break his neck.
Could the times be as they were
An E-1 I'd be again for sure.
Better for a ~SargeT to scream
Get in and clean up that latrine
Than for a Major to address
Me while ITm standing at parade rest.
For while attending A.1.T.
A privateTs life was not for me.
That dollar ~givenT monthly from my pay
Permitted lifersT kids their games to play.
Civilians also got their share,
Yet through their streets I couldnTt dare.
oScrew the soldierT merchants scream.
An ~Easy MarkT we soldiers seem.
Far from the post we must escape
To a friendless town of hate.
Credits easy, interest high
When bills come, too late for wiry.
IS THIS THE REAL
JOHN J. TOLSON
Bragg briefs
Bragg Briefs could be
@ powerful weapon
for Fort Bragg GI's.
More powerful than 100 IGTs.
Stronger than 100 Congressionals.
/f you want it to be.
/f you see things that
shouldn't be
/f your mess sergeant
is ripping off your food,
/f some lifer
is getting out of line,
WRITE US.
Once the light is on
the worm
how long before
he squirms?
BRAGG BRIEFS
P.O. BOX 437
SPRING LAKE , N.C.
28309
attention cid and fbi
Roard for March
JFKCENTER
Editorial
Hal Noyes
Dick Olson 2th Civil Affairs
John 3erk Dental Activities
Dave Bunten Womack Army Hospital
Phil Friedrich 612 2M co
Larry Street Coffeehouse Staff
Chip Cole Civilian
Honorable mention to Fred 3litzer
R411 MacDonald...
thanx to don/shayna/tom/audra/steve/
tina/skip++++ for tea, sympathy, and such
special thanx to bill for music.
STE DAA ene RAPP NN Se I A eR RN RES GRE NA AEE REN oe
oMAY IS COMING
Editor, Bragg Briefs;
It is time for us to stop trying to reform capitalisr .
and stop expending all of our energy treating its syr.
ptoms. Trying to stop its wars, crime, violence, hate.,
poverty, politics, harassment, drug addiction, desecre.,
tion of our natural heritage, waste of our resources
pollution of our enviomment, and other inherent evil;
of our outgrown system is of course essential, but i,
canTt cure the desease.
While trying to keep these disasterous symptom:
under control we must also seek to cure the basic ill :
ness lest the symptoms simply contunue to recur. We
must at least give equal priority to changing our sys
tem of our society.
Once we realize this, we may find that we can cure
the desease before we can effectively cure the symp
toms. In this context we should perhaps give prior-
ity to the job of changing our system.
Unfortunately we donTt all agree on just exactly
what form the new system should take, except that
it should be cooperative instead of competitive, or
how it should be brought about. So in order to ach-
ieve the necessary unity and consensus on which t
build a mass movement, we must identify and expose
the major corrupting influences to be eliminated, set
up Our minimum goals, and then develop a meaning-
ful system of participatory democracy open and ac-
" to all elements fo the left, to achieve these
goals.
Such a plan has been made available by theUS.
FARM NEWST. It is not complete or perfect, nor
could any preconceived plan be. It sets up the par-
ticipatory democracy and a simple suggested outline
guide as a starting point to work from and on in de-
veloping the new society. Donit let the establishment
keep the offensive. This is our chance to sieze the
offensive and restore power to the people!
Send a dollar for two copies of the PET PLAN to
U.S. FARM NEWS, 1024 Grand Ave., Des Moines,
lowa, 50309, and together with a friend start a Study
Group. It only takes two.
Sincerely,
Roger Dugan
WE NEED AN ARTIST!
NOT JUST ANY KIND OF AN ARTIST,
BUT A PEOPLES ARTIST!!!
_who are they kidding
Half an hour after I entered the Fort Wayne De- |
Sos perticular 28th |
ss: Of February 1968 would probalby be as much of a |
osz: hassle as the one coming up on Feb. 28, 1971. From:
3 beginning to end the Frigging Army seems to be sprin- |
ox: kled with a generous amount of mind bending B.S. :
x: Like a fool I volunteered for the Army three years :
3: troit INduction Center I knew that this
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suse around the Barracks cleaning up the floors or
stypeing over in S-] instead of taking care of my fam- %
ezily problems for a change. There may not be much =
sszJustice in the Army but there is a great amount of in- =
syJustice. I went ahead and stayed, now they feel that 3
sel should pay for this great desertion to my duty Who ©
re they kidding???
sss: volunteer for Infantry, Airbome, Special Forces, Viet ; 3
#85 back here at Irst Bn 325th Inf, 82nd ABN Div want %
o33 to show their thanks by hasseling: me for over staying %:
3: my TDY time because of personnel problems on the %
ss: home front. Lack of money, un-notified orders fora %
ss, return trip to Viet Nam, my parents having to leave %
BS am with %;
oi: an ever nearing ETS were a few of the reasons I gave %:
ss both my C.O. and First SGT for an extension. Un- =
33 fortunately they seemed to think that if I feturned to %
#53 Bragg on the 16th of December they could put me to =
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a report from inside brage stockade
fypical stories are Clarence nelson, wounded once,
served with ranger units and the 199th Light Infantry.
Tony Roussakis, wounded once, three times decor-
ated, served with the First Cav Infantry.
Richard Ulmschneider, married, wounded twice,
decorated ~twice. served with the 4th Infantry.
Richard Crabtree, 27 months in Vietnam, all served
with ranger units on search and destroy missions and
reconnaisance missions, wounded once, three times
decorated.
Milton Taylor, married, seven times decorated.
wounded three times. A piece of steel still in his groin,
This story comes to you from A block, solitary
confinement, post stockade. Needless to say, it sucks.
meet Six feet by eight feet, three steel walls, bars on the
italisr. front, one chair to sit on during the day. At this
$ sy, writing, A block is full, all twenty cells including two
, hate. sweat boxes. Most of the stockade is full for that
esecr�,�.,. matter, close to 300 men.
yurces A great many men in the stockade are Vietnam
nt evil); Vets, close to one-third. The majority of these served
but i,; in combat units aid were wounded. About eighty
percent of the men in the stockade are here on AWOL
ptom: , ; charges.
Ld
= who's getting out?
denied, the Army decided not to contest BerkTs writ
xactly In a whirlwind of complicated Pentagonese jumb-
of habeas corpus in federal court. By order of the
yt that jing, three persons have been discharged from military
ve, OF service and a fourth is being recommended for an un-
0 ach: , suitability discharge.
rich ts ~Cornelius Cooper, a West Point alumnus, disappear-
*xpose. ed in a flash as a TWX message from Washington in-
2d, set . formed Fort Bragg authorities that his Conscientious
aning- Objector application had been approved. Less than 48
nd ac-. hours later ~CoopT was a civilian. The TWX failed to
these mention that Cooper had filed two Article 138 com-
court, he will be discharged on or before March 12th.
Interestingly enough, John had also submitted an
Article 138 re AUSA.
David Bunten , Womack Army Hospital, is being re-
commended for a 600-212 discharge(unsuitability).
SMG Miles of WAH has recommended this action.
Dave has a long history of conflict with the Army, in-
cluding having two CO applications denied and three
Article 15s within four months for hassling the mach-
plaints against General Tolson for failure to enforce
eUS. Army racial discrimination regulations and for per-
t, nor mitting AUSA,a pro-war lobby to exist on post illegal-
ie par- ly. Cooper is the first West Pointer to get a CO.
wu tline David Vaught, also a West Point grad, had his un-
in de- solicited resignation mysteriously accepted. His no-
ment tification of impending honorable discharge also failed
e the to note his AUSA complaint against Gen. Tolson and
other Article 138.s he has filed.
ine in his own innovative ways. Dave has been dealt
with for a uniform violation(wearing his DonTt Eat
Lettuce shirt in the hospital mess hall), refusing a di-
rect order to work, and insubordination for not being
able to obey two orders at the same time. He has also
been picked up in downtown Fayetteville for soliciting
signatures on a petition of Congress. Strangely enough.
Dave also filed an Article 138 on,AUSA Bunten is
currently under security investigation independent of
N to John Berk, Dental Activities, is also about to be
ere separated honorably. After his CO application was the 212.
tudy ) ; :
: boycott meeting
MARCH 10 - 9 P.M. - HAYMARKET SQUARE
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cont. from page 1
On Saturday the picket line, consisting of G.I.Ts
and county people, moved into high gear with twenty
to thirty persons participating. The manager called
the police out in force, but the Chief of Police inform
ed him that the picketTline was completely legal and
that Fayetteville in fact had no laws to specifically
control or destroy any picket line.
The councilman present at the time is now spon:
soring a bill that is being written by the Attomey
General of N.C. in an effort to minimize the effects
he has a nervous condition and passed out last week
because he didnTt receive his medication.
There are many, many more cases like those men-
tioned above here in the stockade. For many retumees
who do not wind up in the stockade, the only way to
cope with the conctant harassment of the 82ndTs NCOs
and officers is with smack. One man in A block, a Nam
returnee, comes from one of the heaviest smack units
in the Division. Out of one hundred and{thirty men in
his company, sixty use it and twenty five or more
are junkies.
Your CO, if he is a lifer, or your group or battalion
commander all enjoy their power and authority, their
flashy uniform and their imagined importance. Ask
any one of them how many times he has gone into
the field and served with draftees and enlisted men.
Not in a secured area or support unit, but in the
yunsecured areas, the jungles that Richard C. and Tony
~R. had to probe, the hills that Richard O. and Milton
~T. had to capture and surrender, watching entire com-
panies being decimated as they did it. These are the
places where enlisted men and draftees have been fed
into the fires by the thousands. Many who survive
have this reward-confinement and the ArmyTs brand
of a less than honorable discharge.
All of the individuals here feel that men should
be released from duty as soon as they return from
Nam. The Army, of course, is not about to give any-
body a break or what they deserve, so this article is
an appeal to two groups of people. First, to the men
in the Congress of the United States to do something
for those men who have been made to serve in a-
filthy war. Second, to every enlisted man who wears
the uniform to break the back of this mother fuck-
ing war machine.
Organize your unit around local issues and policy
ochanges. It has already been done successfully. You
can use this paper to do it.
Last week I asked my block sargeant, E-5 Gore, if
we could take a poll at the six oTclock formation of
all those men who were wounded returnees so that
we could give the statistics to the GI press service.
He said no, he might lose a stripe for that. The next
day I was brought before First Sargeant Shires, charg-
ed with distribution of literature, and placed in sol-
itary confinement. Military Justice!!
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Bill MacDonald
1e De- |
ar 28th | of the pickets.
ofa: This action has been prompted by the tactics used
From : by the boycott committee, which are the same that
sprin- ; were used so successfully during the Grape Strike/
g B.S. : Boycott. The major thrust of that boycott was aim-
years : ed at keeping shoppers from shopping at any store
mito 43- that handled California table grapes. This proved
3, Viet 3 completely successful in bringing enough ecomonic
lifers 3 pressure on the growers that they recognized the
ywant % UFWOC as the sole bargaining agent for the workers
taying %: signing contracts that increased wages to reasonable
m the * levels and improved the workersT living and working
fora * conditions.
leave % Thus far this tactic is working in the lettuce boy-
with % cott effort, as the shoppers are refusing to shop at
I gave ~: Colonail Stores and buying their groceries at the A&
Un 3 P and other shops which do not carry Bud or Bruce
ed to = Churce Lettuce.
me to The CNLBC has plans to extend its picketing act-
rs or 3 ivities to other stores in the Ft. Bragg area. The need
(fam = for every GI who is concerned with the fate of his
much fellow worker to join the picket line is essential if
of in- this boycott is to succeed. As one ex-Colonial shop-
1 that 3 ser and school teacher said, oThe workers are pow-
Who rful but if they are going to win everyone must jon
them with their active support�, VIVA HUELGA!
is an ocean of oil worth an ocean of blood?
I
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how u.s. corporations are dividing up
an asian empire
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An oil boom in Southeast Asia may well change
the course of US involvement in Indochina. Although
little noticed in this country, US oil companies are ex-
ploring what some experts believe to be the biggest oil
and natural gas deposits in the world. They are located
in the ocean off the coasts of Cambodia, Thailand, In-
donesia, and Australia. Negotiations are underway for
leasing oil lands off the coasts of South Vietnam. For
the past year men and equipment have been pouring
into Singapore, headquarters for all exploration. There
are about 6,000 men there now. Throughout the rest
of the world, oil rigs have cut off work, and steamed
off to join the Southeast Asian oil boom.
In 1969 six American companies begun to ex-
plore the area. According to Formme, Tenneco, Stan-
dard Oil of California. Gulf, Continental, Union Oil
of California, and British Petroleum euch invested S2
million in exploratory research. While the current area
of intense exploration runs from Cambodia on down
to Australia, experts are also surveying the China Sea.
One report suggests that the shallow subsvil between
Japan and Formosa may hold the worldTs richest oil
and gas deposits, richer than those of the Persian Gulf,
This oil is of particular interest to Americans because
it is low in sulphur content. But most vil and gas dis-
covered would go to the energy market in Japan. where
the demand for oil and gas is rapidly expanding. The
demands in Japan are encouraging to the big interna-
tional oil companies for it means that the Japanese
probably will not be able to provide much of the need-
ed oil through their own companies and will have to
rely on US-controlled combines instead.
"oAn oil company spokesman declared, ~Compar-
ed to those of the Southeast Asian cousts. the Louisi-
ana deposits are likes postage stamp on an elephant's
back.� The American geologist James Gauntt, who has
been exploring the South China Sea for 15 years, esti-
mates that in.five years the oil fields off the coasts of
Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, South Vietnam, and
Indonesia will produce 400 million barrels a day, or
more than the total present production of the entire
western world.� (Joachim Joesten in Weltwoche)
US spokesmen view this situation with a certain
imperial air. Here is a statement by Phillip H. Trezise.
Assistant Secretary of State: it is quoted in Le Monde
as proof of US intentions: oThe United States imports
and exports enormous quantities of energy products.
We have a dominant position in the world oil sector,
and oil is far and away the most important product in
world trade. Energy and energy-supplying materials are
basic to national economies. No government of any
sort can overlook the place that sources of energy oc-
cupy in its political and economic life. . .. If we con-
tinue expanding at the present rate of five percent
the 1970 rate -our crude.oil needs for 1980 will be in
the order of 24 million barrels a day. a figure much
greater than any previous forecasts, which anticipated
4 maximum of 2U million barrels a day. At present,
American production is about 10 million barrels a day.
Therefore. it will be necessary either subtantially to
increase domestic production or to import much more
crude oil than today. .. . Although it would be possi-
ble to decide that the United States could supply its
own needs or come close to doing so, we know that
such a decision would cause a significant increase in
vil prices. Will te American consumer, who pays the
duties. choose 1) tuver of much higher prices in order
to be more or }ss master of his own oil needs or In ag
favor of considerably increased imports and not
much higher pt.ces? | think it will be decided to im-
port more Oh.
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South China
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oil leases of companies named.
# indicates ongoing seismic exploration
for off-shore oil.
UNION CARBIDE
In 1969. the US Ambassador to Thailand said,
A very significant matter may come about. No one
vet knows whether or not it will. It concerns petrole-
um explorations in progress in the Gulf of Thailand.
It is being undertaken not only outward froin Thai-
iand but also from Malaysia, Indonesia. cte.. but it ts
very important ~asotar as Thailand is concersied, and
siX Companys. ok Which five are American ire ¢Xx-
ploring now and apparently have high hopes ot finding
something [fit works out. it could be uw new and ter-
ribly important source of American investment in this
country.
A few months avo President Thieu signed a law
passed by the National Assembly granting foreign com-
panies the right to explore for oil along the South Vi-
etnamese coast. Taking into account this fact along
with the statements quoted above, Jacques DeCornoy
enw ee win r mT - GULF Ei
CITIES SERVICE | WESTERN _
~cently wiote in Le Monde, oHave the oilmen receiv-
sd firm assurances trom Washington of the United
StatesT willingness to oholdT Indochina, in particular
South Vietnam�? One would think su, in view of such
haste, For the companies began to put money in even
before President Nixon announced the *Vietnamiza-
tionT program. Moreover, Vietnam is not the only
country ulfected by this business. Six months after
the right-wing putsch in Phnom Penh, four inonths af-
rer American troops intervened in Cambodi, Cambo-
dia-Thai negotiations over increased econonte tela-
tions between the two neighboring countries !ook place
in Bangkok. The negotiations surveyed the possibility
of establishing a common prospecting program. ...
Cambodian: that cooperation obviously, is unthinkable
without relying on companies that employ moder
technology and thai have vast capital resources, and
that ure, therefore, foreign.�
james ridgeway
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IF THE PRESIDENT EQN) =e
AND THE CORPORATIONS DONTT WANT TO
THEN THE PEOPLE MUST END THE WAR "--""
BECAUSE
ITS THE PEOPLETS BLOOD. ---"-" oor
Representatives from a broad area of North Caro-
lina met at Haymarket Square Coffeehouse the week-
end of Feb. 20-21 to discuss the Peoples Peace Treaty
and plan statewide action around it.
The treaty, presented in the center section of Feb.
Bragg Briefs, was unanimously accepted, as the most
feasable way the American people have ever had to
stop the war in Vietnam. As a treaty between repre-
sentatives of the National Student Association and rep-
resentatives of the National Student Association and
representatives of Viermamese student groups, it as-
fords a base around which the many diverse American
anti-war groups can organize.
With the latest Gallup Poll showing 73% of the Am
erican people opposed to.the War and wanting all US
troops pulled out by the end of 1971, the meeting at
Haymarket centered around how best to use the treaty
to get people to, oend the war themselves�, by making
the peace themselves.
After a reading of the treaty, reports on the Nat-
ional Peoples Peace Treaty conference, which was held
in Ann Arbor Michigan, February 5"7, were presented
by people from Raliegh and Chapel Hill. It was felt
that the Ann Arbor conference showed a very high
level of optimism about the potential of the treaty, and
a strong resurgence of spirit and solidarity in the mov-
ement on a national level.
Attention was then moved to the question of which
of two planned Spring national actions around the
Peace Treaty people in North Carolina should work
towards.
The first, called by the National Peace Action Co-
alition (NPAC), is a one~day peaceful mass rally on
April 24th to be held in Washington D.C. The second
is a broader effort called by the Peoples Coalition for
Peace and Justice (PCPJ) from May ¢ to 5 in Wash-
ington. These plans include a mass rally Sunday , May
2nd emphasizing nonviolent civil disobedience, a ostall
in� Monday morning, and continvaus--though now
rather nebulous"activity through the Sth.
After rather one sided debate, the conference voted
to endorse and work wotards the PCPJ program for
May 2"5 over the one day, one issue (end the war)
approach of the NPAC
The PCPJ is calling gor, 1)Immediate withdrawel
of all US military, air, land, and sea forces from Viet-
nam, and demanding that the US set a date for the
completion of withdrawel; 2)$5,500 Guarentees An-
ae ieee ot four set the date; and
3)Free all political prisoners oset the date. This
multi-issue orientation of thePCPJ, along with the
dates chosen for the action, and a request by the
PCPJ that the NPAC become co-sponsors of the May
2nd rally, were the major points for the floor vote in
favor of backing the May 2 to 5 actions.
At this time the question of the need for support .
from those at the conference for the Planned Counter-
Armed Forces Day rally in Fayetteville was brought
up, and the body unanimously voted to lend all itTs
resources to the event.
Support for any planned action in the state
around International WomenTs Day was also passed,
and the noticable lack of women participation in the
and the noticable lack of women participants in the
conference discussed. ae
The almost non-existant communications between
people and groups in this area was felt to be one
of the major problems in the womens participation,
along with being one of the problems around the lack
of people representing the black community of
North Carolina.
This came up repeatedly in the conference, andy
one of the major accomplishments of the two days
was the setting up of the N.C. Chronicle, as a North
Carolina central information, coordinating and donat-
ion point.
Anyone desiring the N.C. Chronicle & Peoples
Peace Treaty Newsletter, or anyone having questions
about the Treaty, on information for the newsletter,
should contact: Rt. 3, Box 111"A, Pittsboro, N.C.
27312.
Most of the conference Saturday was centered
around how to develop support for the Treaty
throughout North Carolina, working toward the May
actions.
Discussion tumed to developing the Raleigh demon-
stration as a PeopleTs Legislature meeting to en-
dorse the Treaty, but many of the details were left
to be dicided on Sunday as the beginnings and use of
working collectives jelled in peoples mindd through
workshop discussions.
The idea of developing working cgjlectives. within
to spread the Peace Treaty, recieved much interest
from the people at Haymarket. Organizing collectives
was not talked about just for work on the PPT, but to
help people work together on a growing, long range
basis.
People have to start contacting all the individuals
and groups possible in their areas of the state. using
the NC Newsletter as a coordinating device for liter-
ature, speakers and general reports on Peace Treaty
activity. All this work is to be centered around getting
people mobilized to go to Raliegh May Irst, and Wash-
ington May 2 to 5 to support the Treaty.
Sunday was spent discussing altematives for the
May Irst. rally in the State Capital, and setting up a
March 20th date for another Statewide Peoples Peace
Treatv meeting to take place at the University of
North Carolina. The next meeting will be in conjunc-
tion with the New University Conference of Chapel
HillsT March 17"20 Socialist Symposiam and Festival
The conference then broke down into ~Workshops.
on media, liberal co-optation, and canvassing that were
attempts to speak to problems or areas of involvement
that were major concerns of various groups of people.
The conferencd at Haymarket Square was the be-
ginning of a closely integrated movement in North
Carolina. ThereTs a very long way to go, but hope-
fully the conference March 20th in Chapel Hill will
solidify the North Carolina family-""everyone is in-
vited.
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ILLIAM CALLEY
Blitzer: I believe Calley and Medina are the only #
two involved at this time.
Vaught: ITmnot sure if charges against Henderson ,
have been dropped. Has HendersonTs been dropped? |
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Vaught: | You mean the knowledge of...
Blitzer: Well, the fact that it was going to happen.
Who initiated the action?
On the evening of January 31, six officers from the
Fort Bragg COM assembled to discuss an issue that was
very much in public view, the court-martiak proceed-
ings of Lt. William Calley.Although this trial seemed Vaught: It seems to me that it was a pretty typical
to be coming to a not so rapid close, there were issues Search and Destroy mission. Freyer: Is he the sargeant?
being raised both superficial and underlying that will Blitzer: Starting at Company level? Vaught: No. Henderson is the Colonel. And the
battalion commander of course was killed; thatTs the
have repercussions for many years to come. The fol- Vaught: No, starting at Battalion level. . fe
lowing transcript was an open end discussion amongst Blitzer: | WhoTs jurisdiction was that? LTC. But theyTve dropped all charges on general offi- E
these officers in an attempt to better understand and Vaught: The Division assigned the Battalion the S cers. There were two general officers indicted. I think |
clarify in their own minds the implications of the al- all the charges against enlisted men were dropped; near-
leged My Lai massacre. There were many questions ly all, because they dropped the remaining four all at
that had to be answered:What brought My Lai about? once after they aquitted Mitchell and Hutto. , :
How many My Lais have there been? How many more Cooper: _ Maybe a question to ask may be should :
will occur? Where does the guilt for a My Lai rest? William Calley be tried for war crimes in Vietnam? ; :
/t was questions such as these which had been raised at ( Or possibly, what would be considered a "- 4 ime: ~ :
our weekly meetings that initially provoked the dis- \l! How are we going to go about classifying and distin- r '
cussions, and it was questions like these that started J guishing one crime from another in the context of
the discussion that follows. But as we soon discovered, \ , f : Vietnam? ;
the discussion projected beyond its original intent and ( f - 7 TY, Ford: Technically , depending on-your viewpomt, (
into its context we brought many other ideas. The ideas eho Nt WA i, the whole war is a crime, so every thing done over .
expressed were specifically those of the individuals a there is a war crime. t
involved and in no way reflect on any official policies Berk: Traditionally, war crimes trials have never s
of the US Army or Air Force, but in light of our pre- been conducted by the country whose soldiers were i
sent day society we felt it important to share these committing these crimes. And what would happen ta [
thoughts with whomever would be interested enough William Calley if he were put before aSouth Vietnam- fs
in reading them. Our intent is not to proselytize or con- ese court that wasnTt a puppetcourt? f F
vince others of the validity of our opinions but hope- Vaught: The interesting precedent is the Nuremberg
fully to stimulate further thought and discussion trials concerning the Japanese general, the supreme
amongst others on the issues at hand.
The principles involved in the following discussion
were: David Vaught and Cornelius Cooper,both 1Lt
in the Army and West Point graduates; Richard Ford,
Air Force 1Lt; Stuart Freyer, a Major in the Army
Medical corps; John Berk and Fred Blitzer, both Cap-
tains in the Army Dental corps.
Freyer: What happened with the general?
Vaught: Charges on the general just got dismissed;
on General Koster. He was Superintendent of West
Posnt.
commander of the Japanese forces in the South Pacific,
who was held accountable for the actions of his troops
and eventually executed for his complicity. Then of
course in Germany the civilians who were high into
the government were tried, that being an international
tribunal.
Blitzer: As compared to the situation here where
the country thatTs committing the acts is in reality
placing itself on trial whether or not itTs willing to
S openly admit this or whether or not itTs aware of this
implication.
Fexer? 9 On what grounds?
Vassar In the interest of justice. That was the Cooper: Of course in the West the concept of war
phrase they used has always been perverted in the sense that it was a
Freyer: What does that mean? game, and civilians werenTt involved...and it was just
: : in ~j among the soldiers. Whereas in the East...
Vaught: | DoesnTt mean anything. In the ~interest of Peon, cia WAVil thal weat't teue,
justiceT the charges were dropped against General Kos-
ter.
Berk: That means that they were saying that he
had nothing to do with it?
Vaught: Well he was only indicted for dereliction
of duty. But he did have something to do with it! He
was the highest ranking general that knew anything a-
bout it.
Berk: But what theyTre saying is that he didnTt
know anything about it.
Vaught: Supposedly after it occured he was aware
of it. He kept the lid on it by not telling anybody above
him.
Blitzer:
command?
Well, where did it start? At what level of
Guy COLWELL
and D mission. But S and D was a concept used all
over Vietnam that was developed by Westmoreland
and his staff. And of course what theyTd do is mark
the land off; this is VC controlled. After determining
they were going to S&D, they would divide the land up
into oareas of operation�more commonly called an AO
Then theyTd just say ~this was the Division AOT, we're
going to put three Battalions in the AO and search and
destroy. Then the Battalions would break down into
companies so that in this case the companiesT AO was
a Village or village area and theyTd go in for S&D and
search and destroy. And thats what they did!
Blitzer: What would a typical search and destroy
mission involve? Soldiers, civilians, livestock, or what?
Vaught: Generally this would mean if this were a VC
controlled or VC sympathizer village, they would burn
the village and if there were livestock, theyTd kill them
too. ThatTs what it was;search and destroy. Now they
varied of course, then they have search and clear and
any number of missions aside from S&D that were less
destructive such as the clear and hold. But in S&D
they would generally come in and if it were a village
theyTd surround the village and then go in and search,
leaving the security force on the perimeter.
Blitzer: . What had been done with prisoners who
were thought to be sympathetic towards the Viet Cong?
Vaught: ItTs hard to say. There are many incidences
brought up by the war crimes commission where they
murdered innocent civilians. The official policy wasnTt
to do that. Then of coursethere was always the dilemma
about the VC sympathizer; the 3 year old kid that
throws the grenade at you or the women with the bi-
cycle full of dynamite. Distinguishing between the in-
nocent civilian, the VC sympathizer, the VC, and the
North Vietnamese Army regulars was not always very
clear. WouldnTt you say, Cooper?
Cooper: Yes, I agree. The nature of guerilla warfare
is such that there's very little distinction between who
is a combatant and who is not a combatant. Because
there are no sanctuaries per se, there is no territory to
be held because itTs such a mobile war with all the
people playing a role. | think we should now address
ourselves to William Calley; what his trial means and
what the government is attempting to gain from try-
Cooper: There was still this sense of chivalry and
honor in war, which I personally regard as a perversion.
There is no honor in war, there is no chivalry, itTs
complete hogwash, the whole thing...and so Americans
and the people in the West have had this Victorian,
Middle-age concept of the soldier and theyTve carried
it over into battlefields. To me the whole idea of war
crimes or singling out individuals is totally fallacious.
Berk: You say that the glory of the soldier is
probably why countries got together for the Geneva
Convention, the Geneva accords on war. Well I have
never understood how if two countries were determined 33:
to fight each other and allow a great deal of people to
die, how can they draw these arbitrary rules like no gas, :
prosoners of war will be treated hospitably...just the
fact that they agreed to them is insane. ItTs like play-
ing a game by saying that well, once youTre tagged you
have to go sit on the bench.
Blitzer: I feel you're right in considering it like a
game, because itTs almost as if two sets of rules are be-
ing set down in terms of a judicial system. ThereTs a
set of rules used in the outside would,which is civilian
life, and of course the set of rules | feel is being used
in the trial right now, in terms of justification for let-
ing this man.
Vaught: Especially when they iare® trying him and
dismissing the charges which were only dereliction of
duty on the Division commander, the two star general
without charging anybody above that.
Berk: It looks as if they dropped the charges on
everybody above him as well as everyone below him.
Vaught: Well, no, I think Medina ts still...
Prior to their release, U. S. Air Force First
Lieutenant Wesley L.Rumble | Calif.'. Navy Lieu-
tenant Junior Grade R.F.Frishman | Caf.) and
Seaman apprentice Douglas B. Hegdahl visitod a
church in Phu Ly destroyed by U.S. bombs.
ting off these people who supposedly were in command
by writing it off and saying...
Vaught: Who were in command? | mean itTs a com-
mon occurrence in Vietnam that you'll have a platoon
on the ground in a village and above the platoon
you'll have the company commander in his helicopter,
on top of him the battalion commander in his heli-
copter, and the assistant division commander in his
Pri
helicopter, and the division commander in his heli-
copter, all just hovering on the battle. With the commu
munications and the helicopters itTs not that they
didnTt know what was going on.
Cooper: I personally think itTs totally wrong to
1 try anyof those people for that crime. The crime is so
a diffuse that we must consider it a collective crime of
ae our whole society. We sent them over there, we armed
~ them, we equipped them, and we filmed the movies
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that made them want to go out and kill, and we made
them feel they were something. Even in our capacities
as Officers itTs totally bogus for us to blame a superior
and hold him accountable for everything a subordi-
nate does because that man is an individual and the
ion. Army doesnTt issue leashes of sufficient length and
number to kepp a hold of everybody whoTs under his
ans command.
: Blitzer: I would like to take issue with you feel-
NATION ON TRIAL |
ing that the man, the general in this case, is a free
thinking individual. He, in turn, is influenced by the
entire military system - something that relates back to
its infrastructure and what makes it go as a system;
that being the complete subordination of oneTs free
will to the system itself. As you pointed out andI said
it is difficult to place the blame on any one individual
but rather the entire system and the society which
supports this system. For without this support the
system could not be maintained and perpetuated.
Cooper: _| feel that we all maintain that to blame
the guy one step up for these war crimes is the
wrong approach to any sensible solution. Because if
this is to be the case one could always keep going up
and up and up. CalleyTor someone else there pulled
the trigger. The question we have to ask is why did
did he pull the trigger. Not what individual is to blame
but why. ;
Berk: Traditionally the whole concept of justice
in trials has been to isolate the destructive elements of
society so they canTt do their destroying. But if you
are trying to indite people of the caliber of William
Calley, youTre going to have a whole hell of alot of
people in jail because America has turned out mil-
lions like him.
Freyer: ItTs like the murder committed by the main
character in Richard WrightTs Native Son. HeTs a black
man who has such a difficult, primitive life that he can
do almost nothing else, and what he does you under-
stand so well. Of course he has to be tried and exe-
suted for his crime. But you know so intimately that
really the crime is societyTs crime. ItTs not his crime.
ThatTs the tragesly and thatTs CalleyTs tragedyoor the
.q ts whole My Lai tragedy, and as Coop says, itTs our
be- i: crime.
p ss Cooper: How much worse is William Calley, how
lian = much more solied are his hands personally by pulling
ed iss _~ the trigger than say the numerous aviators who are
let- {= declared asheroes Thye drop bombs on Hanoi, Hai-
mand == Phong, and numerous villages; and then get captured
= and now we lament for them in front of our various
~om. =: military purchasing houses on post. These people over
oon 2 there are treating criminals in the sense of equal sta-
ture, probably as evell as we're treating Calley.
Vaught: We donTt really know that.
Berk: ItTs hard to say, but it would be interest-
ing to know how they are treating the so called pri-
soners of war.
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Ford: North Vietnam considers them war cri-
minals - not prisoners of war. ThatTs their exception to
The Geneva Convention. They'll treat a prisoner of
war according to the Geneva Convention. gut they re-
serve the right to treat war criminals differenTly,
Cooper: _"_ Legally an international court of law would
probably hold it as such, because we never have le-
gally declared war against North Vietnam. WeTve been
over there in an undeclared conflict dropping bombs
on people and then trying to gain some legal status
~according to the perverted Western rules of war where
you havé to declare war to go to war. But this country
insists on fighting numerous wars and never declaring
war
Vaught: _ItTs interesting equating Calley to the pri-
"? of war. I donTt know if ITd thought of that be-
ore.
Cooper: The publicTs attitude towards Calley is
different that it is towards the prisoners of war. When
they come back, assuming the war is over sometime, I
expect they will be given a tickertape parade down
somebodyTs street, probably Atlanta now rather than
New York; whereas Calley is now in court being tried
for crimes committed in Vietnam.
Blitzer: I hate to sound cynical, but thereTs also
the possibility that society no the Army itself in the
form of public opinion may consider that itTs easier to
make Calley a hero than to bring him down because
in the long run theyTll be bringing themselves down.
This may even take precedence over his innocence or
guilt.
Cooper: My fear is that what the government is
trying to do is to diffuse the peace effort by raising
the POW issue when they could bring everyone of them
home tomorrow by getting our troops out of Vietnam.
Vaught: No, no. The negotiating teams are just set-
ting the date for withdrawal, then the prisoners can be
released.
Cooper: The point is the government has it in its
power to get those prisoners back by taking appropri-
ate action.
Freyer: Is there any real danger, militarily speaking,
in getting out say in a week? Because thatT s often the
excuse that you hear. You canTt get out such a large
force so quickly. You need two years.
Vaught: I donTt think you could get them out in a
week, but a month isnTt totally unrealistic. What
would you say, Cooper?
Cooper: I think logistically speaking it would take a
while. But the govemmentTs main arguments are bo-
gus in terms of taking one or two years to get the
troops out .
Berk: But the main issue in terms of safety is
whether North Vietnam is interested in attacking the
retreating Americans.
Cooper: No, thatTs contrary to their whole theory
of war. If American troops are actively leaving Viet-
nam, they wouldnTt attack us. They have nothing to
gain by attacking our troops because they would be
sacrificing their own troops to eliminate troops who
are leaving anyway.
Berk: The only reaction they could get would be
to prolong the whole thing, which I donTt think they
would be interested in doing.
Waught I think six months at a leisurely pace and
probably much less if this is their intent.
Cooper: As said before, I think these issues are
being used to defeat the peace effort. TheyTre being
used to make Nixon look goodby making the people
for peace look as if theyTre out of sympathy with the
POWTs. Well they arenTt. They just look upon it in the
context of the entire war. They just see that itTs un-
réalistic to ask the North Vietnamese to return our
prisoners until America quits the war. And at the same
same time the administration is trying to say in the
trial with Calley, oNow weTve killed our war criminal.�
I have artillary ears.�T ItTs very common. They were
proud that they couldnTt hear. It was part of
this,ooBe a man concept�.
Cooper: Perverted masculinity concept.
Freyer: Very similar to the Indians who marked
themselves. YouTre proud of the fact that you dis-
figured your own body.for the glory of war or
to prove your own manhood.
Ford: _ ItTs the whole sickness of war or the way
we operate it. We glorify it to the point where
we train a man to be proud of his ability to kill.
We give him medals for killing people, for getting
wounded; any kind of job you do conneted with
combat""infact, any kink of job you do in the
military. If you just do a damn good job pushing
papers, you get a commondation medal. But itTs
the whole sickness of the entire system that
creates this type of mentality in a man that he
desires to strive toward killing other human beings
and feels proud about doing it. Now if itTs a war
that has to be fought where we're being attacked and
itTs our national survival, and we're out there just
to survive, itTs a job that has to be done.
But do we have to be proved of our ability to do it?
This is the thing thatTs always disturbed me.
Freyer: There should be something next to the
inedal that says, oThe winning of this medal
may be hazardous to your health.�
Cooper: The unfortunate thing though is that
all this discussion is a logical consequence of an
army. ItTs impossible for a man to devote 20 yrs.
of his life to somethong without taking some pride
in it. It seems to me that all the perversions that
come out of war are logical extensions of armies.
The armyTs function is to go to battle, as John
said earlier, if one really feels thatthereTs something
worth fighting for....., ay
Freyer: Is that really their function? Sometimes you
talk to them and they say our goal is peace, which I
personally donTt believe.
Blitzer: This is one of the great falacies that the public
been led to believe. ItTs a matter of society being deceived
or even worse deceiving itself into believing the often
uoted rationalization that. oour goal is peace.�
erefore, there are no more war Criminals, ItTs im-
portant to make people aware that these crimes hap-
pen everyday in Vietnam. ItTs a matter of policy.Free
fire zones are a matter of policy. All one has to do is
go to almost any hospital on the West Coast where
theyTre working on Vietnamese children who had their
faces totally demolished. ItTs beensaid that the whole
country may become a labratory for the affects of
DDT on people over a perios of time because thereTs
been so muc of it used and so indiscriminately. This
has to bring us to the realization that war is such a to-
tal atrocity. ITve met officers who told me that they
went out on a hill every day and fired artillery at
anything that moved, no matter what it was. Atroci-
ties, crimes and brutalities are war, and thereTs no
way to escape these things unless we got out of the
war. .
Berk: They really pound this insanity into the
soldiers that go over there. I was talking to a soldier
only this afternoon, and he said that when he was ove
there it was common while placed on a ~defensive: %
perimeter, if you saw something move, you shot even
though you may have been instructed to hold your
fire until you could determine what you were shoot-
ing. This is routine? itTs just the way itTs done. So in
realitythe policythe government sets is probably less
important that how it acts.
Cooper: _~ This brings to mind aconversation I had
with a soldier who had all his antagonisms mixed up.
He hated Vietnamese because they didpTt.fight. and
he wanted to go back and fight again because his bro-
ther had been killed over there, which just demon-
strates how far the army can goin confusing their
fighting men.
Freyer: We also accept many things that we should
not necessarily accept. I was talking about hearing
problems, which I often talk about with patients; and
one day I was talking totthe son of a very?high rank-
ing commander in the Armed Forces who told me that
soccalled ~artillery manTs earsT (the loss of hearing for
certain high frequencies often associated with not be-'
ing able to hear your watch tick or your car direction-
al) is accepted almost as a mark of distinction, which
is almost unbelievable. The logical conclusion is the
infantrymanTs loss of his right leg.
Yaught: " We used to have instructors at West
Point, especially in summer training, who when asked
a question would say, oSpeak up, be a man, speak up,
What was WestmorelandTs statement about the
Russian generals being extremely envious of us?
Vaught: _...of the Vietnam war, because our
forces were receiving extensive training in air
mobile tactics.
Cooper: And he might be right though. See
thatTs the point,thatTs. what ITm talking about.
Blitzer: _ItTs unfortunate that this is the level
of his thinking. Ihe imperssion I get is that his
concept of whatTs happening is not beyond(or he's
not permitting it to go beyond) just the military. I
sonTt think he has the wisdom, which I would want
the person in command of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
to have.
Cooper: Welt. I think this is perverted because armies
are perverted. If you, believe that wars have to be
fought sometimes, unfortunately whether itTs
good or bad, then this thinking is totally logical to
me; because if | wanted to be a soldier, I think
that the best way to become a good soldier is to
practice it.
Freyer: Maybe the goals of an army could be to.
be the smallest army possible ; just as the goals
of automotive companies is to have the least em-
ployees making the most cars.
Cooper: But it wouldnTt be an army Stu.
Freyer: Well it would be whatever it would be...
a missile army or whatever. A different idea that
didnTt involve men dying, the least men involved,
and the quickest peace. The general who got the
quickest peace would get the prize.
Cooper: If you believ you need an army then
thereTs no point in maintaining an army that wonTt
win.
Vaught: But he istalking about winning!
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any more than bankers can hand out money
or police put away their pistols
or politicians get right with God.
a sty
in the elephantTs eye
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but a fly in his nose
is a serious if not fatal condition
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gets into that nostril
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and stay closed
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alt that flabby ammunition
hanging on him
he begins to wish
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like an ape or a fish
all those passageways
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vied up
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outweigh a trunk
a tank
a bank
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to the elephantTs lies
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to sober him up
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that heTs an elephant
with mu/ltimillimeter trunk
who believes the world is his jungle
and until he dies
he grows and grows
we must be flies
in the elephantTs nose
ready to carry on
in every town
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true flies
then there are may flies and wood flies
but ITm talking about
can flies & do flies
bottle flies, rock flies and sock flies
dragonflies and fireflies
in the elephantTs nose
ready to carry on
til he goes down
7 ba ' me
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THE WAR ENDS IN MAY
Spt L ALI SEES
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GEOR ROR
AAI Q AW iss
Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This
is aquestion of the first importance for the revoiutren,
Mao Tse-Tung
