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UP AGAINST THE BULKHEAD
968 Valencia, San Francisco 94110 Vol 2/No 2/Issue 7 May, 1971
There's a way to fulfill
this American Dream.
FLASH |
As we go to press, more than a thousand Nam
vets have laid siege to the capitol on a osearch
and destroy mission�, ordered to destroy the myth
that Calley-type atrocities are exceptions instead
of the rule. Many calling themselves owar crimi-
nals� and wearing their fatigue jackets with POW
written all over, marched to the Pentagon, and
asked to be arrested for their war crimes. An
NAM VETS
TELL NIXON
TO SHOVE IT
Uncle Tom one-star general said, oWe donTt take
Americans as prisoners.� Who does he think heTs
kidding. Who does he think builds our prisons,
draft boards, and overseas replacement centers?
Vets voted last night to defy a Superior Court
order that banned their camping out at the mall
at the foot of Capitol Hill (they originally planned
to camp at the Capitol for the entire week, and
then join with their brothers and sisters in the
huge anti-war march palnned for April 24).
lf arrested, the brothers will consider them-
selves prisoners of war, and intend to march into
police vans with their hands clasped behind their
heads just like Vietnamese POWs are forced to do.
The vets are freaking out the top pigs in, the
Capitol. They canTt be dismissed as easily as the
rest of us. They fought in the war and many have
wounds to prove it. Tricky Dick and the gang donTt
know what to do, st at this point are treading
gingerly.
Keep up the outasight work, brothers. Power to
you all.
a
McCoy
Brothers
Framed
THE CASE OF THE CAMP McCOY 3
ORGANIZERS FRAMED ON BOMB CHARGES
Chief Pig Att. Gen. Mitchell works on the frame-up of
3 enlisted men for allegedly bombing military property
as his boss Nixon announces more bombers against the
people of Asia. Last July 26, dynamite blasts causing
an estimated $100,000 damage to Camp McCoyTs cen-
tral telephone exchange, electircal transformer, and
water works, shook up a few people. Immediately after
the explosion, PFC Danny Kreps, PFC Tom Chase, and
PFC Steve Geden, all Vietnam veterans, were held for
s questioning. They were interrogated by Army Criminal
Riley SPD
Breaks
Loose
MUTINY AT FORT RILEY
SUPPORT OUR BROTHERS!
Ft. Riley, Kansas has a Special Processing Detach-
ment (SPD) where many men are held prior to formal
charges and/or trial. The men in SPD are expected to
work, and may move about the base, but they are not
permitted off base without special permission usually
given only for emergencies. There were about 150 men
in SPD at Riley as of Jan. 18, 1971.
On Jan. 18, 1971, one of the men held in SPD (Glenn)
was arbitrarily sent to the stockade on the pretext that
he had refused to get a haircut, despite reports from
other men in SPD that he did get a haircut. He was not
given a written statement of what his offense was prior
to his being put in the stockade, which is not unusual.
The majority of men in SPD made nine demands the
next day. All nine points were very specific and very
just, covering everything from the illegal fence around
SPD, to the poor quality food served there.
Their demands were followed by the following para-
graph: oMany of the men at SPD consider themselves
prisoners of war or political prisoners. If the army is
really concerned about the so-called POW issue� then
the brass will meet these demands. If not, it will be one
more example of the oppression and exploitation Gis
in Germany, Vietnam and all over the world are revol-
ting against. All power to the people!�. It was signed
by 65 men, who soon planned a strike action to enforce
their demands. On Tuesday morning, a large number
of them called in sick, so that they were unable to work.
15 of the men confronted the brass directly, refusing to
line up for work. They were ordered into the stockade,
and refused to goin themselves, so that the brass had to
drag them in. The stockade reported that 20 men were
put in the slam for standing firm on their demands.
Most of these men face possible charges of refusing a
direct order and mutiny. The rest were hauled away be-
cause they were respected leaders of the men and stood
up to the brass in public.
The response of the brass has been to begin to turn
SPD into a new stockade. The day room was boarded
up. This was also the room where the meetings of the
men were held. The gates are locked every night, and
this appears to be just the beginning.
The response of the men of SPD will be to step up
their resistance. As one of them said, oFrom this point
on the responsibility for whatever happens to SPD will
rest squarely on the shoulders of the brass.�
investigation Division agents, Military Intelligence, and
the FBI. All were held under barracks arrest.
They had no evidence that these guys did the deed,
but they did know that they had been organizing for the
ASU on the base. And that was enough for the pigs.
When an ASU lawyer forced the army to release the
three, they were then transferred to Ft. Carson, Colo.
The brothers knew they were being framed, and
while the Madison grand jury was investigating the
bombings, they continued the struggle at Carson. Chase
was soon facing a Special Court martial for distributing
The Bond, the American ServicemenTs Union (ASU)
paper. Geden was thrown into a stockade pending a
general court martial for participating in a demon-
stration at Ft. CarsonTs main gate while in uniform.
On February 11, the three were indicted by the Fed-
eral Grand Jury, taken into custody, and removed to the
Federal building in Denver. They face prison terms of
up to 35 years each, and fines of up to $30,000. They
were later transported to Madison in leg irons with their
hands chained to their waists.
The ASU is fighting the government on the frame-up.
it is at a time like this that we can see that only thru
unity is there strength. On March 18, the McCoy 3 case
won their first victory: bail was reduced from $55,000
to $20,000 and Steve Geden was released.
Now we must work to release Tom Chase and Danny
Kreps, as well as fight against the brass who are trying
to crush all resistance. The attacks on these brothers
is clearly an attack on the ASU and on every anti-war
Gl and civilian in this country.
Free the Camp McCoy 3! Send support and letters
to the Camp McCoy 3 Defense Committee, 156 Fifth
Ave, room 538, New York, N.Y. 10010.
In order to give you all some idea of what these three
guys are like, and what theyTre going through, hereTs
a letter from one of them, Tom Chase, to Andy Stapp
of the ASU, written from the Denver County Jail.
Dear Brother Andy,
Was good to speak to you and Mitch the other day
The three of us were separated yesterday but Dannie,
Steve and | are all strong about this: There can be no
deals with these pigs. Mitchell said we are obombers�
at the same time Nixon orders more bombs to be drop-
ped on the people of Southeast Asia. He raps about
peace, but orders a wider and wider war. There is no
question in my mind that we are innocent of their so-
called ocrimes.�
| have not even signed my fingerprint cards. | refuse
to cooperate with this shit. | have not eaten since the
11th"I!'m just not eating this slop.
Dannie, Steve and | met with our lawyer this after-
noon. Everyone is in good spirits. After we talked to him
we got visitors, Peggy Geden, Joyce Betriec and Jim
Powell, otherwise known as oBrother Big.� A good af-
ternoon, all considered.
| have been reading Soledad Brother by George Jack-
son, which my mother sent me. It is a tremendous book;
gives me a lot of Strength. They took it away yesterday
when | got here, however | should get it back tomorrow.
Speaking of my family, | would like you to get in
touch with them. They are good people and will back
me 100%. My mother is active in the peace movement
and may be able to raise some bail money for us.
The papers say that we will be moved to Wisconsin
next week. | have no idea if itTs ttue"but send us some
books when we get there. Say hello to John and Terry
for me and to all the ASU brothers and sisters.
All Power to the People!
Tom Chase
OLD AGE HOME BOMBED
A bomb went off in the nationTs capitol on the mor-
ning of March 1. The dynamite blast, set in a small
bathroom just below the Senate chamber, did $300,000
damage. A caller said, oThis is a protest of the Nixon
involvement in Laos.�
TODAY AFLIGHT LINE, TOMORROW...
At Misawa Air Base in Japan ther is a flight line of
15 jets that has been unable to leave the ground in
four months. Nuts and bolts have been loose, parts
have been missing, weird substances have been found
in the gas tanks, and no combat mission to Vietnam has
taken place from that flight line. OSI, of course, has
mobilized to find out who has been messing up the
planes, but so far they have only been able to narrow
the suspectsdown to about 75 people. They also have
done great organizing by harassing everybody.
STATE DEPT. DOESN'T DIG PEACE
The State Dept. called the PeopleTs Peace Treaty onot
a program for a reasonable and lasting peace.� And the
right-wing Young Americans for Freedom launched a
oDon't Sell Out� campaign against the treaty. But students
at Northern Illinois University voted 4,389 to 751 for
total withdrawal of American troops and equipment by
December 31, 1971.
A group of 162 Americans, mostly middle class pro-
fessionals, recently returned from Paris after talking
with all parties involved. One participant, Chicago
radio talk-show moderator Stan Daley, stated that U.S.
ambassador to the talks, David Bruce, osaid many
things in the conference which.gave me the impression
that the US has no intention of getting out of Vietnam.�
ADEADLY SICKNESS
Lt. William Calley, convicted executioner of 102 Viet-
namese men, women, and children, automatically re-
ceives VIP treatment from Delta Airlines when he flies
with them. in Columbus, Georgia, Calley and his friends
are guests of the house at the Chickasaw Supper Club.
in Amerika you get special benefits for mass murder.
Marine Pvt. John Robinson, doing one year of hard
labor for taking part in a oriot� at lwakuni Correctional
Facility in Japan, is demanding equal treatment for
those held for lesser crimes: four room apartments and
all other privileges Calley gets.
PROMINENT PIG PELTED
Army Chief of Staff, Gen. William C. Westmoreland,
leading candidate for war criminal of the year award,
was greeted by 1000 demonstrators when he spoke to
a (you guessed it!) Boy Scout meeting at the University
of Cincinnatti. His fans pelted his car with rocks and
mud as he left.
NO ASYLUM IN CANADA
When Chapin Paterson's bid for C.O. status failed and
he was drafted, he boarded a plane with 69 draftees
headed for Ft. Lewis, and hijacked it to Vancouver. In
Vancouver he applied for political asylum, but was
turned down by the Canadian government which is
increasingly knuckling under to pressures from the U.S.
to be less friendly to draft-dodgers and deserters.
Paterson is being held on $50,000 bail pending trial for
alr piracy.
PING PONGER DIGS MAO
John Tannehill, the top player on the U.S. table tennis
team that returned from China recently, said he had
compared the Chinese system of living to the American
and found, oI much prefer the Chinese system.� Tanne-
hill reported that, oThe way we were treated was beau-
tiful. We went through a farm commune...! was amazed
at the way people were very alive. They were not sus-
picious... They were very friendly and | could see in their
eyes something that wasnTt in the Western eye of dis-
trust and suspicion... They truly love a socialistic state.�
OBSCENE GESTURES: PETTY HARASSMENT DEPT.
Four Marines were arrested and jailed for making
obscene gestures when they flahsed a peace sign at an
MPig at Camp Pendleton .. . At Ft. Huachuca, when
charges were dropped against Pvt. E-1 Adam Wall, he
omade a decidedly obscene gesture� at his persecutors.
He is in the stockade for flipping them the bird.
WORKERS, FARMERS, STUDENTS UNITED PROTEST
When President Nixon addressed the lowa State Legi-
slature on March 1, he was greeted by a joint demon-
stration of 3,500 construction workers, farmers, and
student anti-war activists. Small family farmers, speak-
ing of conditions similar to the depression, were pro-
testing farm prices as well as the war. Construction
workers were responding to Nixon's suspension of alaw
that protects wage levels in federal construction pro-
jects. One iron worker said, oThat son of a bitch is try-
ing to take food off my table.� Another, when he heard
that Nixon called the demonstration amateurish, said,
oBecause we weren't violent, | guess we were amateur-
ish. What does he want"machine guns to make us
pros?� Nixon excaped from the people by worming his
way through a side door. The demonstrators rushed his
fast-disappearing limousine and pelted it with snow
balls. At that point, a reporter who was with Nixon in
the limousine, reported Nixon as saying, oMy, aren't
snow balls fun!�
Two weeks later, 800 construction workers greeted
Nixon at a Newport, Rhode Island speech. They pushed
past barricades, but were finally stopped by MPs.
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US PATRIOT DISAPPEARS
Marine Sgt. John M. Sweeney, who once worked with
the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, and
then was kidnapped from exile in Sweden, has given
the enemy the slip. Sweeney was being processed out
of the Philadelphia Naval Hospital for transfer to the
Marine base at Quantico, Va., when he disappeared: He
was to be tried for desertion and aiding the enemy.
WESTMORELAND COULD BE HUNG LEGALLY
Telford Taylor, the chief US prosecutor at the Nurem-
burg war trials, said that Gen. Wm. C. Westmoreland,
the ArmyTs chief of staff, might be convicted as a war
criminal if the standards of Nuremburg were applied
to his conduct of the war in Vietnam. War crimes were
defined by an Army Commission that convicted and
hanged Japanese Gen. Tomayuki Yamashita. The Com-
mission held that as the senior commander, Yamashita
was responsible for not stopping the atrocities. Taylor
said that the same applied to high officials in admini-
stration of Lyndon Johnson.
VETS REWARDED
Nixon has announced a new $1 million program to aid
the 350,000 unemployed vets. Figure it out: it means
that you get approximately $2.85 over a period of 14
months. Thanks, prick, for nothing.
PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTHIS
$10.6 million allotted for Army ads
$1.0 million allotted for Vietnam Vets
The U.S. Army Recruiting Command will spend $10.6
million in a 4 month radio and TV campaign to en-
courage enlistments. Marcus Welby, M.D., The F.B.I.,
NBA basketball, and other TV shows will be sponsored
in part by the Army.
o... (CHOOSE TORESIST...�
oSocial change must begin with ourselves. We cannot
be at peace with ourselves if we are compromising the
principles upon which we base our lives, or surrender
our freedom to be men. | choose to resist. | donTt believe
in turning my back to war being waged in Vietnam,
Laos, and Cambodia. | do not believe in manipulating
the people of Indochina...| do not support what is being
done economically to Latin America and racially to the
U.S. | do not believe in policies carried out for the good
of one nation to the detriment of others. But | do believe
that all men form one human family. If | am guilty be-
cause | believe in love, community, equality, and non-
violence, then what is justice?�
Where's it coming from? ItTs what Gerry LePage said
at the chapel of Chaminade College where he sought
sanctuary while on R&R from Saigon. A few hours
after publicly refusing to return to Nam, Gerry and 19
others were arrested for trespassing. He is now in the
stockade at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.
QUOTE OF THE MONTH
Fort LewisT own Captain Thompson D-1-2 gives us @
fine quote to help us better understand military justice:
oJustice is punishment of the accused.�
Gis FACE UP TO LIFER
_ (from Left Face) The GI paper at Ft. McClellan has
started a new practice"democratic voting for the Lifer
of the Month. The paper has begun printing a ballot to
be filled out and mailed into the paper. FebruaryTs
Lifer, ISG Gates, of the 613th Field Service Company,
is rumored to be up for a court martial with credit due
to the men of the 613th who have exposed his practice
of illegally locking up EMs under armed guard, and
sometimes beating his men with a small stick. One
GI managed to avoid this fate, however, when he told
Gates, oYou ever touch me with that stick, and I'll get
a bigger club and beat your head in.�
IS ANYBODY LISTENING?
Miami-Dade County Florida Civil Defense officials have
prepackaged a series of messages for broadcast to the
public in case of enemy attack. One says the U.S.
= has oretaliated with tremendous effectiveness� and
adds, othe probability of victory is good.�
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PIG DRUGS
If you don't get offed in combat, you could be done in
by the number one pig-killer drug, heroin. Two U.S.
Congressmen reported that 60 to 90 Gls ODTd in Nam
last year. Dozens of others probably died without
making the body count. Congressmen Morgan Murphy
and Robert Steel claim that a heroin epidemic is sweep-
ing Vietnam: 10% to 15% of Gis"30,000 to 40,000 guys
"use high-grade heroin...A bill has been introduced in
the Senate to enable odrug-dependent� G/s to get medi-
cal discharges plus hospital care and treatment for up
to 42 months...Discharges for odrug abuse� have
soared in the Navy and Marines last year. 6700 Gis were
discharged while 2000 received some form of punish-
ment...A 28-year lifer, Col. Gerald Kehrli, got three
years and a $15,000 fine after being found guilty of 7
charges of procuring, smoking, and possessing grass.
He was a squadron commander in Vietnam. In his de-
fense, Kehrli said he had been a Boy Scout and a mem-
ber of the 4-H club. An Army intelligence officer told
the court that grass was a good thing: oSmoking grass
won't hurt you, but cigarettes will,� he said. One lifer
character witness testified, oWe had the most go-go
squadron in the Air Force and it was guys like Colonel
Kehrli that gave you that go-go spirit.�
WHOTS SICK?
A Nam vet was discharged from Ft. Carson in Feb. for
medical-psychiatric reaons after a harrowing stay at
Fitzsimmons Hospital. In a few days he managed to
hang NLF flags all over his ward, give a lecture on milli-
tary fascism to an interviewing psychiatrist, and have
the honor of getting two Article 15s while he was a pat-
lent. He had also refused to go into the field or handle
a weapon while in Nam. When court martialed, he came
into court with a clenched fist salute. Naturally, the mi-
litary court found him a little strange. He finds them
something more deadly.
WOMEN DEFY PENTAGON
Over 3000 women came together on April 10 for a
march to oDefend the Right to Live.� They were out-
raged that the President told us that Cambodia had to
be invaded, that Laos had to be bombed, that more Viet-
namese had to be killed so that we could live. Women
testified to the crimes of the Justice Department, and
then laid seige to the Pentagon. The Joint Chiefs hid
themselves behind shoulder-to-shoulder police lines. A
WAC in uniform, surrounded by her sisters, con-
demned the war. At the same time, American women
were in Vancouver meeting with Indochinese women to
exchange ideas on how together they could help to end
the war.
KILLEDINACTION " INLOS ANGELES
A Chicano brother who took part in a rebellion in
East L.A. opposing the Indochina war, police brutality,
and harassment in the barrio was murdered by the Los
Angeles Police Dept. Pvt. Richard Dominguez was
AWOL from Ft. Gordon when he was murdered.
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WE SUPPORT WORKERS IN OKINAWA
OkinawaTs Zengunro, the union of workers on U.S.
bases in Okinawa, went on strike Feb. 10, protesting the
firing of 3000 workers in Dec. and an American plan to
dismiss 10,000 more in the near future.
Gls stationed there are actively supporting the Oki-
nawans labor struggle. One of their leaflets reads,
oThey are striking against the system that drafts us.
They want the war to end and the bases gone. They
want their freedom back. They want their island back.
What do we want?�
Your future. your
CUT AND SPLICE DEPT " WHAT A MIX-UP
Seven thousand yards of army and police communi-
cations lines were cut by residents of Chunsong, South
Korea, recently. The lines linked three provinces and
were crucial for the command communications of the
U.S. troops and South Korean regime. After they cut
the lines, the people linked the army and police com-
munications lines to each other.
BLACK AIRMEN CHARGED
Four black airmen at Naha Air Force Base in Okinawa
have been charged with arson. They are alleged to have
set a fire in the barracks of three white airmen. The
government's witness has given approximately three
different and conflicting accounts of the incident. The
four ~brothers feel that they are being harassed for par-
ticipating in discussion groups about racism and the
military. They're being defended by a right-on lawyer.
WORKERS OPPOSE WAR
A recent Harris Poll showed that 64% of unionized
workers want Nixon to get out of Indochina by 1971,
compared to 61% of the general public. The poll reflects
increasing opposition to the war among unionized wor-
kers. In general, studies have shown that people with
low incomes and less education are more likely to op-
pose the war than people with higher incomes. Local
anti-war referendums since 1964 have shown that vo-
ting against the war is higher in working peopleTs com-
munities. It's no wonder when you think who provides
the cannon fodder.
KNOWING WHO THE ENEMY IS
In February, Newsweek entertainer Johnny Grant,
who spent Christmas in the field, said oAt one camp we
heard the grunts cheer enthusiastically when they
learned that two of their own officers had been killed in
a VC ambush.� This goes along with what a Harvard
sociologist said. Former Marines told him they felt
greater hostitity toward the South Vietnamese military
and American officers than toward the Viet Cong.
NIXON COUNTING ON RESERVES AND GUARD
FOR NEXT VIETNAM
oThe contemplated budget increase for the reserves
and for the national guard could total a quarter billion
dollars or more,� a recent Associated Press story said.
oThe administration's plan to field a relatively small
and compact all volunteer force by mid-1973 is based in
large part on a combat-usable ready reserve which in-
cludes the National Guard.�
Both the Reserves and Guard are getting a lot of new
equipment, despite the general military cutbacks. The
Army Reserve got three times as much bread this year
than it got two years ago. Most of this is aircraft, espe-
cially modern armored helicopters used for Vietnam-
type wars. The Guard is also getting great numbers of
choppers, as well as the new M-60 tanks. Brothers
beware!
PIG JUSTICE: KICK ~EM WHEN THEYTRE DOWN
a 19-year-old Marine double amputee was charged
with striking a nurse/officer at Philadelphia Naval Hos-
pital as well as behaving with disrespect to a superior
officer. When the story got into the press and caused a
minor uproar, charges were dropped.
STANDARD OIL LAYS DOWN SOME SLICK STUFF
Two Standard Oil Company tankers tried to fit into the
same space under the Golden Gate Bridge, and the
collision left some 850,000 gallons of gooey bunker
fuel oil to slaughter the wildlife of the already pol-
luted bay. Thousands mobilized to save the tarred
birds, but most didn't survive. More disasters like this
are coming, since U_S_ oil consumption in the 70's
will be more than in the entire history of the world
before now. It seems that a lot of that oil will come from
huge new fields guess where--off the coast of Vietnam
and Southeast Asia.
cision...choose
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FBIGETS SOME OF ITS OWN
A group calling itself the Citizens Commission to In-
vestigate the FBI announced that on March 8 it raided
the Media, Pa., office of the FBI and took everything
but the safe. Since then they have been gradually re-
leasing information about FBI information taken from
about 800 documents they seized. One report called for
the infiltration of black student organizations and the
opening of files on oofficers and key activists.� There
were other reports of tracing people from Philadelphia
to Berkeley, infiltrating the Black Panther Party, and
obtaining photos from the Passport Office of persons
who had travelled to Russia. Informers, according to
one document, can be recruited now from the age of 18
on, and should be paid at least $300 a month plus
expenses.
J. EDGAR HOOVER BLOWS !T AGAIN
J. Edgar Hoover, himself under attack for side-step-
ping the Constitution, fired two file clerks who were
working during off hours for a peace group. FBI rules
forbid political activity (as if the FBI weren't political),
and Officials said that peace groups were working ag-
ainst the Administration. But isn't Nixon AmericaTs
most devoted ana hard-working pacifist?
DOUBLE TALKING BULLSHIT FROM USCONARC
In a directive to commanding generals of the 1st, 3rd,
and 6th armies, the US Continental Army Command
(USCONARC) says: no more using armed guards and
physical force at overseas replacement centers to make
servicemen board aircraft headed for overseas unless
we approve it. But it adds:: of course, this doesnTt
mean you canTt use oguides or escorts to insure that
military personnel do not miss movement through ne-
gligence or inadvertence.� IsnTt big brother nice?
CHICANOS MARCH
Some 2000 Chicanos marched two miles through San
Juan, Texas, to protest the killing of five of their people
during recent civil rights struggles. Units of the Texas
Rangers, state police, and National Guard were present
but did not attack the demonstration.
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
Thousands of women across the nation celebrated
womenTs day on March 8. Women demanded freedom
for imprisoned black revolutionaries Angela Davis (of
the Communist Party), and Joan Bird, Afeni Shakur,
and Ericka Huggins of the Black Panther Party, as well
as Sister Elizabeth McAllister, a white Catholic nun who
is charged with being part of a conspiracy to kidnap
NixonTs advisor, Henry Kissinger. Women also deman-
ded abortion reform and day care centers. Madame
Nguyen Thi Binh, foreign minister of the Provisional
Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam and head
of their delegation to the Paris Peace talks, sent Angela
Davis a telegram: oThough U.S. warlike racist rulers
jail you like other patriots in South Vietnam, they never
can stop the advance of progressive people in USA and
Indochina who firmly defend living rights, human dig-
nity. We shall win.�
LAOS: TWO ARMIES
THAT WON'T FIGHT
The idea was fairly simple: push ARVN into invading
southern Laos and cut Indochina in half. Nixon wanted
to prove that ARVN could take over the fighting and
mainly the dying & as he tried to keep us out of combat:
Nixon was hoping that if he could keep our deaths
down, he could keep-the military from falling complete-
ly apart and take some of the pressure off from the anti-
war movement. But nothing seems to have worked out.
The invasion was just about 100% disastrous from the
beginning to the end. First, ARVN couldn't make it
more than about 25 miles into Laos, even supported by
the heaviest concentration of aerial firepower in the
war. Then once they got in there, they got bogged down
surrounaed, ambushed and generally had the living
shit kicked out of them for six weeks.
The Laotian liberation forces put up such a heavy
concentration of anti-aircraft fire that more than half of
the 500 choppers used in the invasion were shot down,
as many as 80 in one day. The liberation forces are a
revolutionary peasant army in a peasant country which
has been fighting since World War II, just like the Na-
tional Liberation Front in South Vietnam, for an end to
foreign (Amerikan) domination.
With the picture looking worse every day that ARVN
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rificed for shit, to prove something that we have all
known all along; that ARVN will not fight.
This senseless slaughter led to open resistance in
some units during the invasion. Some chopper pilots
refused to fly below certain altitudes to avoid AA fire
and two platoons of the 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry,
Americal Division, refused to recover their COTs per-
sonnel carrier. He was into getting guys blown away to
get his damn toy back.
Nixon is finding himself in a tighter and tigher
space, less and less room to maneuver. The Vietnamese
donTt want us in their country and they aren't about to
fight their own people fo the right to get pushed
around by the US government. ItTs getting harder and
harder to find a GI who digs the war. Most of us are
just like ARVN. We donTt want to risk our lives for
something we donTt believe in and are willing more and
more to fight back just to stay alive and keep our heads
together.
oWe achieved a fast with-
drawal which is good as it
catches the enemy by sur-
prise.� Pres. Thieu
oAs of today, no ARVN
elements remain in Laos.
Enemy forces are now
chasing them toward the
border"wait, [donTt mean
to use that word. They are
following them to the
border.� aUSArmy Col.
If you check what Nixon and Secretary of Defense
Laird are saying, you will find that they are being
very careful to hedge their bets. Nixon, for instance,
just added a new condition for peace to all the other
ones which he has used to keep the Paris Peace talks
from happening. He is waiting for ARVN oto take over
the combat burden.� We know what that means. Laird
says that the U.S. will keep ships and planes in South-
east Asia for along time to come. | guess he means until
they are driven out.
stayed in Laos, Nixon and General Cretin Abrams, top This quote comes from an officer who went over to the other side during the invasion of Laos. A group Of ofr
dog in Vietnam, tried to throw up a smokescreen of
fancy terms to hide the facts. With ARVN pouring out
of Laos by the thousands dragging the wounded and
killed that they didnTt leave behind, Nixon explained
that they were engaged in omobile maneuvering.�
Next it was a ophased withdrawal.�
LIFE magazine"they had a reporter on the scene"
had a bit different story to tell. They called it a orout,�
oa withdrawal that has declined into an ignominious
and disorderly retreat.�
ARVN is fucked. L/FE reported that ARVN suffered
almost 50% casualties in an invasion force of about
23,000 men. Fourteen ARVN battalions were put out
of action.
But this is nothing new. ARVN has been fucked all
along. |t has already lost the war once. That was back in
1965 when it was fighting with US advisors and there
were only a few of us in Vietnam. Since then even its
obest� elite units, like the Marines and Rangers, have to
fill the vacancies caused by desertion, going over to
the oenemy,� and casualties by kidnapping new re-
cruits. Even so, 12,000 soldiers make peace withthe
NLF every month by just walking away from their units.
In many places ARVN has made a more formal peace
with the NLF. We have received several reports of NLF
guerillas operating openly near ARVN positions with
ARVNTs knowledge. Why not? ARVN is made up of
young Vietnamese guys who like everyone else over
there wants the U.S. out now. Why fight to make your
own country into a free fire zone? The other problem
with ARVN, according to the CIA, is that the military
like ThieuTs puppet government is heavily infiltrated
by the NLF. The CIA estimated that there are at least
30,000 NLF agents operating inside the Nixon-backed
government, a good part of them in ARVN. That should
explain why it is that the guerillas always. know just
~what stupid tricks the lifers are going to pull: next
The invasion fucked over Gls also. Abrams claims
that only 250 were killed. But one of the puppet lifers,
Lt. Gen. Hoan Xuan Lam, told the Saigon senate that
it was more like 450. Four hundred and fifty guys sac-
cers like him have set up a radio transmitter near the Laos-Vietnam border. They are explaining to ARVN that
they are victims of NixonTs plans to force the Indochinese to fight their own people so that the US can run their
country. We got the statement from an American sister who was given it by a Vietnamese sister at an anti-war
womenTs conference in Canada.
To my dear comrades-in-arms in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam
After battalions 3 and 6 of my brigade were destroyed at Cha-Ky and Hill 31, my command was fiercely at-
tacked. Before this peril | and a group of staff officers of my brigade asked the liberation soldiers to agree to
take us as prisoners of war on February 25, 1971.
The liberation soldiers treated us very tolerantly and never once offended our human dignity.
We were pushed to a foreign battletield to face the enemy, but we did not expect to meet such strength of morale,
excellence of fighting, weapons and fierce fire power. This American war is, by all means, lost.
The sad state of the 3d Brigade was also true for the 3d BattalionTs Special Mobil Troops, the infantry of
Regiment 3, the armored detachment 17, as well as for many other units and the whole United States Air Force.
At this time | know many ARVN units who are being forced to continue on this blood-soaked battlefield in
order to serve the selfish interests of other people
| hope that my comrades in arms will soon understand the truth and will not act slowly. We must instead act
abreast of the times in order to escape a tragic fate. Death is meaningless; death is a continual waste.
signed, Colonel Nguyen-van-Tho " Brigade Commander, Brigade 3, Army of the Republic of Vietnam
Nixon's still telling the American people that he is
owinding down the war,� bringing our boys home. But
now despite government censorship we are hearing
about another big campaign involving ARVN and Gis
in the A Shau Valley. As more of us are pulled out the
guys who are left are seeing more combat and feeling
even more that fhey are surrounded in a country that
doesn't want them.
One thing is for sure. Despite the talk Nixon isn't
about to leave Vietnam all together, not after all the
bread invested in keeping a bunch of crooks like Diem,
Ky, and Thieu in power. ItTs just beginning to pay off.
Sometime this spring the puppet government is going
to sell the oil just off the coast of Vietnam to big US
oil monopolies like Standard Oil of California, Gulf,
Tenneco, etc. They certainly arenTt about to turn the
country over to a people whose government doesnTt
want US corporations ripping off its resources. It would
set a bad example around that part of the world, parti-
cularly in Thailand and Indonesia where the US owns
a huge hunk of the resources
a
Tricky Dick is settling down for the long haul in Viet-
nam. He is still dreaming of a victory. It will be a cj-
rious one because it will be the first military victory in
history ever won with two armies that won't fight.
This war is going to be settled by the peons on
both sides. With the NLF winning and ARVN and Gis
quitting, it will only be a matter of time"and a long,
hard struggle against the pigs and lifers"before we
have peace in Vietnam.
In other recent developments:
...While Laotian liberation forces threw back invaders
in the south, they launched a new offensive in the north.
The CIA base a Long Chen came under renewed at-
tack andliberation forces are approaching Luang Pru-
bang, the royal capital of Laos.
...In Cambodia, Operation Total Victory launched
against the Cambodian resistance at the same time as
the invasion of Laos by 24,000 ARVN troops and US
air power has met fierce resistance. Cambodia is in a
state of almost total collapse. The liberation forces, or-
ganized after the US invaded last year, control about
seven-tenths of the country. Pnom Penh is surround-
ed and cut off from its only port by liberation troops.
..In Vietnam the resistance to the invasion of Laos
marked the beginning of a nationwide offensive by the
National Liberation Front. In early April the giant base
at Danang was attacked by NLF units. Guerrillas am-
bushed an armored column of the First Air Cavairy
Division only 31 miles from Saigon. In the Mekong
Delta a ceremony to present $10,000 to a defector from
the VC was broken up by a brief VC mortar attack.
Commenting on the ceremony which was meant to
show progress in pacification, John Paul Vann, paci-
fication mastermind, said: oI've wondered why this
kind of thing didnTt happen before.�
... The Saigon puppet regimehas postponed bids for oil
reserves off the coast of Vietnam until June. It is em-
barrassed by charges that the US is planning to stay
in Vietnam so that giant US oil monopolies can rip off
this important Vietnamese resource. Representative
William Anderson of Tennessee noted that recent maga-
zine articles have argued that oour boys might be
dying in Vietnamto pacify that region� so that billions
in oil profits might be made by US oil companies.
( conhuved ov. e: it)
page 5
lf heTs a hero...
If you're eating lettuce these days, chances are you're
being used by the Pentagon and some of its agribusi-
ness friends to break the strike/boycott of the lettuce
workers in the Salinas Valley of California. Since last
fall, the farmworkers have struck and organized a na-
tionwide boycott against non-United Farmworker's
lettuce. The largest grower in the country, Interharvest,
has signed a contract with the United Farmworkers.
Other growers signed in a hurry with the Teamsters.
But the farmworkers say, oWe are engaged in a basic
self-determination struggle. We want organized stre-
ngth in a union that is close to us and is responsive to
our needs and hopes.� Contracts with the Teamsters
were made without the workersT knowledge or support;
this month the Teamsters agreed to withdraw their con-
tracts, effectively supporting the United Farmworkers.
Bud Antle, the second largest grower, has not signed
with either union. HeTs been in trouble since civilian
and GI pickets started educating shoppers outside of
chain stores. But Antle then turned to his friends in the
Defense Department.
The Dept. of Defense wants to bail Antle out. In the
first three months of the boycott, they bought as much
lettuce from Antle as in the whole preceding year, and
paid him more than the market price. for it. The brass
hope that they can help break the strike as they've done
before.
Gils aren't going for this shit. At Ft. Lewis, over 550
guys signed a petition to Senator Jackson that asked
the Pentagon to stop using Gis to break the strike.
Jackson refused to get involved. A picket line was set
up Outside the main gate every morning by Gls and
civilians. Antle lettuce has been taken out of the com-
misary, but still appears in mess halls near Lifers Eat
Lettuce stickers. Try and watch out for Bud Antle boxes
behind UFWOC boxes, or label changes!
At Moffett Field and the Presidio in the San Francisco
area, and at all bases in San Diego, the people together
got rid of all scab lettuce. Airmen at Selfridge AFB in
Michigan and their dependents got scab lettuce out of
the commisary, but mess halls still serve it. At Ft. Bragg
Gls and civilians picketed local stores when lettuce
sales nosedived.
In May, the harvest begins another season, and the
pressure on Antle and other scab growers will grow.
Gls and farmworkers are both messed over by the brass,
and can fight together. If you want help organizing
against scab growers and the Dept of Defense, get in
touch with the United Farmworkers Organizing Com-
mittee. If nothingTs happening where you're stationed,
write to UFWOC, 638 Oak Street, San Francisco. Phone
(415) 864-5613. Lifers Eat Lettuce.
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Calley (above) leaving courtroom. Photo below is of the only U.S. casualty suffered during the Mylai
massacre, a black G/ who reportedly shot himself in the foot so he wouldnTt have to participate in the
slaughter that followed.
We cheer the statement of the father of
Paul Meadlo, a man stationed in Cal-
leyTs unit. This brother, an Indiana
miner, said,
oIf it had been me there, I
would have swung my rifle
around and shot Calley
right between the goddamn
eyes.�
THE WAR INDS WHEN THE POPLE MAKE: THE PEACE
As long ago as September 17, 1970, Madame Ngu-
yen Thi Binh, the leader of the Vietnamese peopleTs
delegation to the Paris Peace talks, put forward a very
down-to-earth proposal for peace in Vietnam. Altho
big city newspapers in the States usually reprint
NixonTs bullshit speeches word for word, not one
mass media newspaper told the American people
about this new peace proposal. All they did was men-
tion that the U.S. negotiator, David Bruce, made a
joke of it, calling it onew wine in old bottles.�
Ten days later, the editor of SaigonTs largest daily
newspaper and prominent member of the South Viet-
namese National Assembly, Ngo Cong Duc, called
for peace in his country along the same lines. This is
what he said:
oThe time has come when not only the NLF parti-
sans but also the entire South Vietnamese people are
revolting against the U.S. and against generals Thieu
and Ky... The opposition movements are inspired
neither by the communists nor by the NLF. The en-
tire population is preparing for struggle against the
threat of extermination by war and against the dan-
ger of imperialism.�
According to the fascist laws of the Thieu-Ky-
Khiem regime, this made Duc guilty of treason, since
anyone who advocated even a neutral coalition gov-
ernment in Saigon was automatically a traitor. But
the people in the cities of the South dug DucTs state-
ment and rallied behind it. When these moderate city
people backed Duc, Thieu and Ky lost their last re-
maining shred of support. Not too much later, an in-
dependent popular front of over 1000 national and
regional organizations was formed to get rid of the
Thieu-Ky-Khiem regime. This coalition was made up
of students, businessmen, professionals, local gov-
ernment officials, veterans, women, and city workers.
If you donTt believe that the only support that Thieu
and Ky have is from Nixon and his pals, then check
this out. In Hue on April 14, there was a huge demo-
nstration of 15,000 people. They were furious with the
Saigon regime because they had friends and relatives
who were forced into the Saigon army as cannon fod-
der for the Laos invasion, and had not heard from any
of them because of the news black-out. ThieuTs ans-
wer was to come to Hue two days later and stage a
military parade, hoping to scare the people into kiss-
ing his ass again. What it boils down to is that Thieu
was afraid that a coalition of dissident students and
war-weary citizens would form a government which
counted him out.
It was at about this time that a group of American
students travelled to North and South Vietnam to
work out a treaty of peace between the American and
Vietnamese people. They felt that since Thieu-Ky-
Khiem did not represent the people of South Vietnam
and since Nixon sure didnTt represent us, that the only
meaningful peace was one which was made between
people, not governments.
The sixteen American students were from a group
called the National Student Association, and repre-
sented colleges, junior colleges, and universities all
over the country. All but one of their group met with
students from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
(North Vietnam) and the National Liberation Front
(the NLF is part of the Provisional Revolutionary
Government, the only real popular government of
South Vietnam). The sixteenth member of the group
was able to slip through SaigonTs security net and
meet representatives of the non-NLF student organi-
zations. The two documents were formally joined in
to one statement in Paris.
That statement is contained in the letter on this
page, addressed to Congressman Ron Dellums (Dem-
Berkeley/Oakland, Calif.) Sign it. Implement it. Take
it to your friends. ItTs the only reasonable program for
a true and lasting peace in Vietnam, and the only
people on the face of the earth who are not for it are
the psychopaths and war criminals who get high on
genocide. Join the Peace Treaty. Join the people of
the world. Make peace with your brothers and sisters
in Southeast Asia, and-make peace with yourself.
Who is Ron Dellums, and why mail signed copies of
the letter to him?
Ron Dellums is a brother, a black brother to be ex-
act, who was just elected to the House of Represen-
tatives as a Democrat from Berkeley/Oakland, Calif.
Unlike any of the other 535 people who are supposed
to be our representatives in the Senate and the House
Dellums is one of us. HeTs not rich. HeTs not 65 years .
old. HeTs not an egomaniac or a power freak. He does
get high. He did work closely with the Black Panther
Party and other community organizations. HeTs
fought off the law and order freaks for years. And he
does want to bring the power from the top of the pyra-
mid back down to the bottom where the people are.
HeTs for peon power, and heTs proved it by spending
the last seven days storming from base to base,
making unannounced visits to Ft. Bragg, Ft. Meade,
Ft. Leavenworth, and Navy/Marine installations in
San Diego. Since he is a Congressman, an authority
the most polished brass doorknob-head is forced to
respect, he scared the shit out of several base com-
manders (see the article on his tour under Make
Your Own History).
What happens to this letter once I sign it?
Brother Dellums is really the only person in Cong-
ress who truly represents us, the people. As our rep-
resentative, he has agreed to receive all signed copies
of this letter from GIs, and hold them in trust until
at least one thousand signed copies are collected. At
that time, he will stand up on the floor of the House,
and read every name into the Congressional Record.
If thereTs money, our names will appear in a state-
ment in some major metropolitan newspaper.
Other letters, statements, and petitions supporting
peace in Vietnam have been signed before. Why
make such a big deal about this letter?
Whether the letter and the treaty actually help end
the war depends on those who sign it. If the people
who sign just figure that theyTre expressing their
opinion, and leave it at that, the effort will fail. If
people think the treaty is going to change NixonTs
mind, then they, too, are mistaken. But if everyone
who signs the letter/treaty takes their signing as a
committment to action"if each of us who sign can
figure out some way to make the PeopleTs Peace real
"then the effort can succeed.
See, the most important part of the thing is the last
section, the Enforcement Provision. It means that by
signing, youTre pledging to yourself and to the rest of
us out here, that youTre going to do what you can to
make the peace.
Who else is signing letters and treaties like this one?
People all over the world are circulating this thing.
Okinawans are marching across their island/home
to present it to GIs stationed there. Already weTve
heard of guys at the following bases circulating the
letter or the treaty: Ft. Lewis, Ft. Bliss, Ft. Bragg,
Selfridge AFB, San Diego area bases, Newport Naval
Base, Ft. Campbell, Ft. Benning.
Some people are organizing as consumers, and are
boycotting the products of coporation which hold
war-related contracts. Scientists and engineers are
organizing to stop war-related research. And theyTre
also getting together with the people who work for
corporations which produce for the war to organize
work stoppages. Vietnam Veterans Against the War
(VVAW) is sponsoring war crimes investigations in
many cities all over the country, as well as taking the
treaty itself to vets groups. In fact, the first signers
of the treaty were Vietnam vets at the Winter Soldier
Investigation. Students are knocking the shit out of
the ROTC programs, and are making it intolerable
for war-related research to go on at their campuses.
City councils are ratifying the treaty, and then imple-
menting their decisions.
Is it legal for me to sign this letter?
Yes. When you sign this letter, youTre petitioning a
representative in Congress for a redress of grievan-
ces. This is a privileged communication between you
and him. Anyone who tries to interfere with you when
you sign it or mail it is guilty of one or more of the
following crimes: .
1. Violation of AR 600-20: oNo person may restrict
any member of an armed force from communication
with a Member of Congress, unless the communica-
tion is unlawful or violates a regulation necessary to
the security of the United States.� (10 USC 1034,
para. 41a)
2. Violation of AR 65-1, para. 8-3 (rev. 12 Dec. 68):
oThe secrecy of the mail is inviolable. Military postal
personnel will not break, nor permit to be broken, the
seal of any First Class mail while in military channels.
SS Violation of AR 65-75, para. 6 (rev. 26 Sept. 67):
oExcept pursuant to a legal search or seizure, mail in
the custody of unit mail clerks will not be subject to
delay, interception, seizure, rifling, or confiscation
by any person...�
4. Violation of the oath all members of the U.S.
Armed Forces are legally bound to take, in which they
swear to uphold the Constitution. The Constitution is
the highest law in the land, and it provides in the First
Amendment that, ooCongress shall make no law...
abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;
or the right of the people peaceably to assemble
and to petition the Government for a redress of
grievances.�T When you sign this letter to Congress-
man Ron Dellums, you are exercising your right to
petition your government for a redress of grievances.
venting distribution is that the letter opresents a clear
and present danger to the loyalty, discipline, or mor-
ale of his troops.� In other words, be cool about get-
ting other guys to sign other copies. And be especially
cool about passing out other copies of the letter.
Remember that you are not signing the treaty itself.
If you were, you might be subject to prosecution
under Article 104 of the UCMJ, and thatTd be heavy.
But what youTre signing is a letter to a Congressman,
and thereTs no legal way that they can stop you from
doing that.
What do Ido if ITm busted?
Be cool, and donTt say a word. That is one of your
rights under Article 31. TheyTre the ones whoTre up
against the wall, not you. Why else would they bust
someone for either signing or passing out a letter to
a Congressman? Cause theyTre scared shitless. So just
Is it legal for me to pass this letter around on base to take the first opportunity you have to place a phone
get other guys to sign it? Is it legal to give guys other
copies of the same letter?
What youTre signing is a letter to a Congressman.
ItisnTt an underground paper or an unauthorized pub-
lication. A Dept. of the Army memo, oGuidance on
Dissent (27 May 69)�, tells roughly what you can and
cannot pass out. A Dept of Defense Directive 1325.6
says roughly the same things. What it boils down to is
that itTs up to a base commander to decide whether or
call to your CongressmanTs office. That phone num-
ber is (202) 224-3121. Ask for Ron DellumTs office,
and call person-to-person. Another number to try is
the GI Office. That number is (202) 244-2831. Both
those numbers are for Washington, D.C. In Chicago,
call Camp News at (312) 327-9044. On the West Coast
call Pacific Counselling Service at (415) 431-8080.
If you have been harassed in any way for having,
signing, or distributing this letter, you can also write
not the letter is an ounauthorized publication.� If they
us at 968 Valencia, San Francisco, California 94110.
decide that it is, the only reason they can give for pre-
WeTre ready to fight if you are.
RE SANE TOE ATS: SATE AE SIENA ALE LTT OEE ETAL OE EIEN ENE LORE LEGO LE NDE! SEBEL DLL NLS IER ANSE NR NN,
Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
RONALD V. DELLUMS, 7TH DISTRICT, CALIFORNIA
April 19, 1971
Dear Brothers and Sisters in the Military:-
American adventurism in Southeast Asiashas existed for decades and
would probably continue for years to come were it not for the rising
awareness of the American people concerning the true nature of this
War.
Among the activities that millions of Americans will be participating
in to bring this aggression to a rapid halt will be the signing of
the Peoples' Peace Treaty. The Treaty, negotiated between the peoples
of Vietnam and our own country, embodies the proposals of the Provisional
Revolutionary Government peace plan.
I believe the proposals are more than reasonable, and that implementation
of the Treaty will allow for a speedy and just conclusion to the war--a
conflict already rejected by three-fourths of the American public.
I have signed and fully endorse the Peoples' Peace Treaty and highly
recommend all members of the Armed Forces to lend their support to the
principles it advances.
Very.sincerely,
Heal Ue Dellhns 2
Ronald V. Dellums
Member of Congress
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A LETTER TO CONGRESSMAN RON DELLUMS ABOUT
HOW GITS FEEL ABOUT PEACE IN VIETNAM
Congressman Ron Dellums
attention: Mike Uhl or Jeremy Rivkin
room 1417 " Longworth Building
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C.
Dear Congressman Dellums,
Be it known that the American and Vietnamese people are not enemies. The war is carried out in the
name of the people of the United States, but without our consent. It drains America of her resources,
her youth and her honor.
We hereby agree to end the war on the following terms, so that both peoples can live under the joy
of independence and can devote themselves to building a society based on human equality and re-
spect for the earth. In rejecting the war we also reject all forms of racism and discrimination against
people based on color, class, sex, national origin and ethnic grouping which form the basis of the
war policies, present and past, of the United States.
We, the undersigned active duty members of the United States Armed Forces, are for a true and
lasting peace in Vietnam according to the following program:
AMERICANS agree to immediate and total withdrawal from Vietnam, and publicly to set the date by
which all U.S. military forces will be removed.
Vietnamese agree to participate in an immediate cease-fire, and will enter discussions on the pro-
cedures to guarantee the safety of all withdrawing troops, and to secure the release of all military
prisoners.
AMERICANS pledge to end the imposition of Thieu, Ky and Khiem on the people of South Vietnam
in order to ensure their right of self-determination, and to ensure that all political prisoners are
released.
Vietnamese pledge to form a provisional coalition government to organize democratic elections,
in which all South Vietnamese can participate freely without the presence of any foreign troops,
and to enter discussions of procedures to guarantee the safety and political freedom of persons
who cooperated with either side in the war.
AMERICANS and VIETNAMESE agree to respect the independence, peace and neutrality of Laos
and Cambodia.
Upon these points of agreement, we pledge to end the war. We will resolve all other questions
in mutual respect for the rights of self-determination of the people of Vietnam and of the United
States.
AS AMERICANS RATIFYING THIS AGREEMENT, WE PLEDGE TO TAKE WHATEVER ACTIONS
ARE APPROPRIATE TO IMPLEMENT THE TERMS OF THIS JOINT TREATY OF PEACE, AND TO
ENSURE ITS ACCEPTANCE BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
As Gls signing this letter, we pledge to do whatever we can to make peace with the people of
Vietnam. We also pledge to try to ensure the acceptance of this peace by the government of
the United States.
NAME RANK OR RATE
PERMANENT DUTY STATION
Make Your Own...
FUN AND FROLIC WITH FTA (FT_KNOX)
Guys in the 54th Infantry (part of the 194th Brigade)
have been receiving riot training ever since the black
rebellion in Lousiville in 1968. Most everyone in the
54th is a Vietnam returnee and not too excited about
the idea of learning new ocombat� skills; this time for
the war at home. Recently the brass staged a mock de-
monstration and assigned a group of about fifty in-
processing and a few permanent party people to be the
demonstrators. The Army provided them with water
balloons and picket signs saying odown with the army�.
The demonstrators had some ideas of their own. They
made signs saying oOff the Pig�, and oLegalize Mari-
Juana�. The brass in charge made them drop the signs.
The demonstrators were supposed to aim their water
balloons low so as not to get weapons and radio equip-
ment wet, while each company went through its pre-set
maneuvers. Again the demonstrators had a different
idea of how to stage a riot. They saturated all the rifles
and practically drowned the radio operator. A Sgt. led
each squadron of the company, and these lifers were
singled out for saturation bombing with water balloons,
mud, soaked toilet paper rolls, and everything else the
demonstrators could get their hands on. Command Sgt.
Maior Legion (last monthTs Lifer of the Month), didnTt
even show for the first companies run through because
he knew the reception heTd get. When he arrived, he got
blasted from every angle. Afterwards he made the
comment that it seemed some of the demonstrators
were smiling through the whole thing, and he wondered
why. In general, the riot maneuvers were a waste of
time, since the demonstrators ran in between and round
behind their wedges in good guerilla style, and the Sgts
were so bewildered that the officer in charge made
each company run through it twice.
DIGGING ON ROTC
Enrollment in ROTC in 1970 reached its lowest since
1947. Enlistees dropped by 50% between ~68 and ~70.
THE NEW ACTION ARMY AT WORK AND PLAY
In Frankfurt, Germany, four American military cars
went up in flames yesterday morning as a result of
magnesium charges attached to the vehicles. The cars
belonged to the Criminal Investigation Division. Dam-
age was estimated at about $8000. In Heidelberg, the
Army said that it was investigating to determine who
poured sugar into the gas tanks of 59 military vehicles
ina Nuremburg motor pool. Right on!
VETS TESTIFY ABOUT GENOCIDE:-FILM AVAILABLE
A 25-minute black and white film, oWinter Soldier
~71,� presents the testimony of Vietnam vets about atro-
cities committed in Vietnam. The film can be rented or
bought from KLH Productions, 1713 Waverly, Detroit,
Michigan 48238, or call (313) 865-3265. A full transcript
of the hearings will soon be available from Vietnam
Veterans Against the War, rm 735, 156 Fifth Ave., New
York, New York 10010.
EMs CHEER DELLUMS " HOOT LIFERS
When Congressman Ron Dellums spoke recently at
Ft. Meade, Md., denouncing the war, he was greeted
with a standing ovation. Col. A.W. Alexander then took
questions from the Gls. His answers, which a black
WAC said, oHe was just saying because the Congress-
man is here,� were drowned out by groans and shouts
of anger. Alexander later called the Gis othe dregs of
the Army.� The press reported that, oThere are military
regulations forbidding just about everything the
troops did and said.�
To!
MAKING MONEY BY CREATING MISERY
THE PRISON BUSINESS
The construction consortium of Raymond, Morrison,
Knudson, Brown, Root, and Jones was awarded a $400,-
000 contract by the U.S. military to build three new cell
blocks on Con Son Island, site of the tiger cage prisons.
Prisoners. will be paid 55¢ to 72¢ a week to build their
new ohome.� RMK-BRJ built the huge military com-
plex at Cam Ranh Bay with Vietnamese and Gi slave
labor. Brown, Root is famous for having purchased
Lyndon Baines Johnson when he was a junior congress-
man from Texas. They helped finance his rise to the
position of Supreme Dictator and Oppressor of the
People.
WHERE HAS ALL THE MONEY GONE?
$70 million is the yearly cost of upkeep of Emperor
NixonTs three palaces, the white house and his two sum-
mer hideouts, not counting Camp Pdavid, in Florida
and California, staffed by 75 butlers, maids, doormen,
plumbers, electricians, and carpenters.
LIFER RIP-OFFS EXPOSED
Retired Army Major Carl C. Turner pleaded guilty in
US district court to soliciting 136 firearms from the
Chicago police department and keeping them for his
own use. Turner, former Army provost marshall, was
appointed to the post by Nixon. In June, he will stand
trial for income tax evasion...Another crook, Brigadier
General Earl Franklin Cole, alleged head of an Army
mafia, at one time escaped prosecution through the
intervention of (guess who) Gen. Westmoreland. Cole
was accused by witnesses at a Senate hearing of accep-
ting favors and cash from.a businessman who sold slot
machines, liquor, and other items to PXs in Vietnam.
Cole, who has a huge private bank account in Georgia,
once gave a jade figurine to Westmoreland's wife and
a Cigarette box to the big cheese himself. When Cole
got found out, Westmoreland sent the gifts back.
Cole is now beyond the reach of military injustice.
He retired on a $1100 a month pension last summer.
Crime can pay if you are a lifer.
Retired Colonel Frank Burgess, who was chief of
services for PXs in Vietnam, took the Fifth Amendment
before a Senate committee when asked about corrup-
tionin PXs in Vietnam. Burgess, according to witnesses
was the target for special attention including free hotel
rooms, meals, and women provided by US corporations
who wanted to sell their goods at PXs.
James Beam Distilling admitted that it sent a $618
sauna bath and $115 worth of swimming pool chlor-
iination to Leo Slotnick, the leading Navy and Air Force
liquor purchasing agent on Guam...Four NCOs are also
being charged with bribery, fraud, and falsifiication of
records in connection with the investigation of PXs and
servicemenTs clubs...When a Senate investigator visited
Col. Robert Cook, present Army provost marshall in
Vietnam, they found that he had issued orders to units
not under his command to prevent the investigator
from seeing files pertaining to PX financial activities.
Apparently there are a /ot of lifers in on this racket.
What's in it
for you?
page 8
BANK OF AMERIKA: FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE
The worldTs largest bank, with hundreds of branches
at home and abroad including special bomb-proof
structures in Saigon and Berkeley, has become the
number one symbol of U.S. exploitation. Accused of al-
lying with big business, agricultural, and real estates
interests against the poor and oppressed, the B of A has
had 24 of its domestic branches bombed in the last year.
And now their main office in Taiwan has been bombed.
SEE AMERICA FOR A DOLLAR A_ DAY
As more and more families need welfare because of
climbing unemployment, Nixon is attacking the welfare
system with a bill that would give a family of four
$1600 a year guaranteed income. That works out to
19 cents a meal. The yearly amount is less than half of
the government's suggested poverty income level.
Nixon thinks, though, that itTs ocorrosive� for
American morale to have a person on welfare getting
more than a neighbor who has a job. That says a lot
about his plans for wage controls.
CAESAR'TS PALACE SEIZED
Over a thousand people led by the National Welfare
Rights Organization occupied Caesar's Palace, famous
Las Vegas playground for the rich. They were protest-
ing illegal cuts in payments affecting 50% of the state's
welfare recipients. Payments under Nevada's Aid
for Dependent Children are figured by taking 43% of a
familyTs needs and paying that. Thus, a family of four
gets about $144 a month or $1728 a year. It also breaks
down to 19¢ per meal per person.
FOREIGN AID AMERICAN STYLE
In the midst of a nationwide offensive by the Nixon-
Reagan ruling clique against welfare recipients, some
interesting figures have come to light about owelfare
aid� abroad. Between 1950 and 1968, the U.S. provided
$19 billion in weapons, supplies, training and cash to
armies in so-called underdeveloped countries. Approxi-
mately 297,000 foreign military personnel and 5547 po-
lice personnel have been trained in the U.S. during
that time. This country has delivered 2812 fighter jets,
201 patrol boats, 20,639 tanks, 3460 Honest John rock-
ets, and 2,088,000 rifles. In the coming years, $6 billion
will be spent on Vietnamization and $1 to $2 billion on
Koreanization. ItTs a good thing to know that our tax
dollars are aiding the poor.
FORCED DISPLACEMENT AND GENOCIDE
According to the Senate Subcommittee on Refugees,
6,000,000 people in South Vietnam have been odis-
placed� (driven from their homes by U.S. bombs, de-
foliants, etc.). Since 1964, 8,000,000 people (nearly half
the population) have been killed, wounded, maimed,
displaced or rendered wards of the State since the start
of the war. Hey, Tricky Dick, tell us again. Whose free-
dom are we fighting for? |
Senator Edward Kennedy reported that 25,000 civil-
ians were killed and 100,000 wounded in Vietnam last
year. One-third of the casualties were kids under 12.
WHO ME?
First Sgt. Gene Tingley usually got to the orderly
room shortly before 6 am to relieve the night duty
NCO. That morning he oversiept. At 6:03, five pounds
of plastic explosives blew the headquarters building
apart. oIt took me until about noon to figure out they
were out to get me,� Tingley said. oThen it was kinda
shocking.�
SOLIDARITY WITH INDOCHINA
Over 1200 people gathered March 10 at California
State University at Fullerton for a oDay of Solidarity
with the Indochinese People� and in protest against the
Laos invasion. It was the largest anti-war rally on cam-
pus since the university banned demonstrations last
March.
oOK! OK! Your lousy morale has made the general ery and | hope you're proud of
yourselves,�
ROGER PRIEST WINS AGAIN!
A U.S. Navy court of military review reversed the
court martial conviction of Seaman Roger Priest. Priest,
who received widespread support in the GI movement,
was given a bad conduct discharge for actively oppos-
ing NixonTs war against Indochina.
BLACKS/WHITES VS. THE PIGS
When 68 members of the Black Student Union at the
University of Florida in Gainesville were arrested, hun-
dreds of white students seized the administration build-
ing demanding their release. After the pigs drove the
students from the building, two hours of skirmishing
between the pigs and the students followed. The black
students were arrested in the president's office where
they were demanding more black students and faculty.
ARTICLE 138 " HAVE A BALL
The Oleo Strut coffeehouse in Killeen, Texas, reports
success of Gis filing Article 138 charges against their
COTs. oWeTve had two successful cases so far of Gis
using Article 138 along with a company-wide petition
to force COTs to allow political posters on lockers. Ano-
ther tactic being used in one company Is that two days
after two people had their posters taken down, twenty
people put them up.� Fort Bliss reports often a person
can get action merely by going to JAG and asking how
to file an Article 138 against a particular officer.
GOOD FOR US
Last year there were 20,000 obad� discharges awar-
ded, and a 28% decline in ROTC enrollments. We're
headed in the right direction.
AL RAMP " RAILROADED
Al Ramp wrote a letter to the North Vietnamese dele-
gation in Paris. In it he said that as a GI, he was against
the war, and supported them in the fight to rid Vietnam
of U.S. troops and big business. Later, while in the
stockade at Ft. Hood for being AWOL, his letter was
returned for insufficient postage. His CO, who has no
right to read his troopsT mail, opened and read this let-
ter. The Constitution guarantees freedom of speech, but
the Army prohibits it. Ramp was charged under Article
104 of the UCMJ (aiding or communicating with the
enemy). The U.S., by the way, has never declared war
with North Vietnam. You have to be at war to have an
enemy. But thatTs a minor detail to the Army. RampTs
JAG officer, Capt. OTMalley, told him to plead gullty.
He said there was no defense. He made a deal and Al
got two years"for writing a letter (from Fatigue Press).
PEOPLETS HERO CHARGED
Pvt. Billy D. Smith of the ArmyTs First Cavalry Div.
has been charged with dispensing peopleTs justice in
the form of a fragmentation grenade to two lifers. Sen-
tence was carried out by Smith at Bien Hoa on March 15
and he is now awaiting appearance before the liferTs
kangaroo court in the Long Binh jail.
COWBOYS AND INDIANS AT UNIV. CALIF. DAVIS
Four Army guards at the old Army Communications
Center were outwitted by a band of Indians"twenty
women and six men"who took over the installation.
Although the Indians had applied for use of the site for
a cultural center and university, the government re-
commended that ownership go to the University of Cali-
fornia. But the University didnTt want another PeoplesT
Park battle, and quickly dropped its claim. Also, in
Seattle, 200 Indians walked out of a public hearing de-
manding that Fort Lawton be turned into a center for
medical care, halfway house, child-care center, native
restaurant and museum, and American Indian Univer-
sity. The occupation of Alcatraz over a year ago.is still
on, and was only a starter.
page 9
FILIPPINO GUERILLAS
oGuerilla Warfare Has Begun!� announced the Ma-
nila press recently. In fact, it has been going on since
World War Il in the form of the Huk movement. Now a
new organization, the New PeopleTs Army, formed two
years ago, is fighting the small clique known as the One
Hundred Families which rules the Philippines with Nix-
on's support. These families who live in guarded com-
pounds in Manila control 90% of the country's wealth
while inflation is constantly driving down the living
standards of more and more people.
The Marcos Government of the Philippine Islands
(P.1.) is both corrupt and violent. Many citizens around
Manila carry weapons to protect themselves against the
private armies of government officials who they believe
cause much of the violence. American-owned agricultu-
ral business operations have helped to put 80% of the
income and wealth in the hands of less than 10% of the
people. 8% of the labor force is unemployed and 25% is
underemployed. 75% of the employed make less than
$600 a year.
Resistance against the Philippine government has
grown (I wonder why), so the U.S. has provided riot
police training at the international police academy in
Washington, D.C. in weapons, including napalm, and
new communications systems. Dr. Martin Meadows of
WashingtonTs American University, has said, oIn th.
event of revolution (in P.!.), the U.S. would support the
administration even to the extent of creating another
Vietnam if the Americans deemed such a step neces-
sary to protect their econimic and military interests.�
In March, C. Company and possibly A. Company from
1/14 Inf., 1st Bde., 25th Div. at Schofield barracks in
Hawaii was sent to P.|. Why? ItTs secret like-the Laos
invasion. Besides, itTs only a training exercise.
| WONDER WHO FUCKED UP THE JETS?
Because of the Sgt. Major's harassment, over $7 mil-
lion dollars worth of General Electric J-79 turbine
engines were found damaged. Angry troop at Cherry
Point MCAS in North Carolina, left screwdrivers, wren-
ches, and shit like that in the intakes of the squadronTs
McDonnel-Douglas Phantom II fighter-jets.
THE TERM oBOY� IS DEROGATORY
The Army Court of Military Review reversed the con-
viction and 1 year sentence of a black soldier who
struck a superior officer after the officer had called
him oboy.� The court said basically that since the of-
ficer acted in a racist manner he shouldn't expect
respect. So the next time you run across a racist pig
who says so verbally, let him have it. (Case is U.S.
vs. Johnson, No. 422385 (a)CMR, 23 Dec. 1970.)
THIRD TIMETS THE CHARM
Last fall sailors on the USS Ingraham attempted to
sink their ship by opening up a sea valve in the after
engine room and letting in about a million galions
worth of Narragansett Bay (Mediterranean). Unfor-
tunately, they didnTt succeed. So last month they made
a second (count Tem, second) valiant attempt to sink
their ship, this time off the coast of France. Again
they failed, but nonetheless inspired the Gi paper All
Hands Abandon Ship (AHAS) to start a oAHAS Sink-
Your-Ship Photo Contest.� Did you sink your ship?
Well, take a picture of it and send to AHAS. The best
entries will appear in the nextissue.
GREAT LAKES LETTUCE RIOT
In Feb., there was a lettuce riot in barracks 213Ts
chow hall. Bks. 213 is the restriction barracks (dopers,
freaks, returned UATs, conscientious objectors, revolu-
tionaries, and other forms of life). One night, several of
the men of 213 showed up with lettuce leaflets in the
mess hall and started rapping with the men there.
Pretty soon there were several tables of men throwing
lettuce. Lifers were getting uptight and throwing orders
around which were ignored. Finally, a Marine Sgt. , Tim
Fires, jumped.on a table, and tried to order the mess
servers not to serve scab lettuce. Unfortunately, the
sailors didnTt listen to the Marine. Anyway, keep up the
good work. BOYCOTT SCAB LETTUCE!
HELL NO! WE WONTT BLOW!
AUS. district court found that the Army had puni-
tively transferred Sp/4 David Cortright for antiwar ac-
tivities with the Ft. Hamilton Army band in Brooklyn.
The Army was ordered to return Cortright to Ft. Hamil-
ton from Ft. Bliss, Texas. The court refused to rescind
the transfers of six other Gis. The seven were among
38 band members who signed a petition last fall deman-
ding immediate U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, which
appeared in the New York Times.
page 10
Dear Bulkhead,
Right now there is an interesting little fight going on be-
tween the lifers and the draftees. Your publication is much
appreciated.
We would like to know if there is a way that we could pub-
lish a story of the things that go on here. We have a young of-
ficer who goes to bat for all the junio enlisted men who come
to him with problems. Right now the higher-ups are attempting
to have him placed elsewhere so he will not create problems
by helping us. If we could publish his story it would be OK.
M.H. " 5th Trans. Co.
Dear Bulkhead,
In addition to wanting to receive and distribute your paper
! would like to give you my full support in OUR fight against
the military. Right on, brothers and sisters!
! need any information on legal counselling in the Santa Ana
or Orange Co. area you can furnish me. | have no money (after
supporting my wife) so the obeast� feels safe from an organ-
ized legal representation of my case.
! got busted for desertion in December. Fifty days later | was
released to marry my chick then after considerable hasseling
was allowed to remain free til the court-martial. | went AWOL
from DaNang V_N_ because the lifers couldn't bust me. So they
set me up. 17 months later a snitch in San Francisco put me
back under the thumb. | donTt want to run anymore or hide.
| have to get the pigs hold on me ended. If you can offer advice
on my case, I'll be grateful. | need help. Any additional litera-
ture that would help enlighten my brothers would also be gra-
tiously received and greatly beneficial to the dissent already in
the air here.
Several brothers here have discussed a local (base) paper to
spread the news and keep local movements well advertised
and well supported. Any help you offer will be appreciated.
A_M_E_
Dear Madam (this was sent to a group here called Another
Mother for Peace)
As a serviceman in Vietnam | am writing this letter with ut-
most sincerity and honesty. It is individuals and groups like
your that have made the first troop withdrawals possible.
However, | must add that | hope your group does not become
contented with advances you have made so far. | know for a
fact that there are over 2,000 troops per week coming into this
country through Long Binh alone. ae
On behalf of the peaceloving U.S. servicemen in Vietnam,
| thank you very much for your efforts.
Incidentally, | had a good friend of mine mail this letter from
Mobile, Alabama, due to the fact that our mail is subject to
screening here, and the omanagement� of the Army takes a
dim view of peace promoters.
Respectfully,
Sp/4E.S.B.
PEOPLETS CALENDAR
Editor of the Bee (this was taken from a Sacramento paper)
Many articles have been published recently concerning the
modernization of todaysT army. However. being a member of
this action army | have yet to see any of these improvements
take place.
We, the American soldiers training here at Fort Ord and
presently members of Bravo 3-2, have yet to receive any of .
the new benefits. We are now training as an AIT unit for infan-
try. We cannot have our hair the full three inches, we can't
have our mustaches, we haven't received the beer privileges in
the barracks and itTs very seldom that we get eight hours of
sleep. Besides, we are still working six days a week beginning
anywhere from 4:25 to 5:30 am and ending anywhere from
5:30 to 10 or 11 pm. We still have formations after returning
from an overnight pass on Sunday nights. Every day harass-
ment is ridiculous.
/ suppose that it sounds like all | can do is complain, but the
response of my buddies is what prompted me to go ahead and
write.
We wish the newspaers would come in and talk to some of
us. Whenever a report is made or an article written, the repor-
ter is shown only what the army wants him to see. We, the Gis
of this company, wish you would come in and see what itTs
really like, and what we are actually receiving.
We have three weeks to go before graduation from this
advanced training unit, and at present strikes are even
being considered.
Soldier " Fort Ord
Dear Bulkhead,
! am a person who does not believe in the military the way
it is now. Including the Marine Corps. They say all people are
equal. If this is true then aswer me this. Why is it that an E-5
or below comes in late they get burned for it, and the lifers,
even if they're three days late, nothing happens to them? Also
you're supposed to have freedom of press and speech. Then
how come when in the barracks | had three letters and six
poems ripped up by the Pigs because they did not fit their po-
licy. I've tried to get out of the Green son of a bitch at least
six times. All times | was refused because they said (now this
is in my own words) that they can make me a robot. A human
is not a robot. He is himself. Nobody should try to change
this, including the military pigs. What are they? My mother
and my father? | doubt it, because if they were I'd really be
fucked up.
On Aug. 6, 1970, while serving in Vietnam, | was told by
the pigs that, and | quote, oStay away from the black brothers.
They will just get you in trouble.� Well, to me that made
about as much sense as telling a thirsty camel to stay away
from water. There's bad and good in every race. Then | came
back to the Statees, and they're trying in every way to sepa-
rate me from my brothers...!'m not too well educated. But if
a person who went to the 10th grade can see what's going on,
how come the brass asses who are so educated can't see what's
going on?
M. " U.S.M.C. 29 Palms
Dear Brothers in Peace,
You have a well-written, factual, and informative paper.
Having finally received my freedom from the military anarchy
as a C.O. (conscientious objector) after a year long fight, | am
glad to see that others are still carrying on the fight from the
inside. Fortunately, the Navy is more lenient than the other
branches of service. Otherwise, | might still be in the military.
| have all the information necessary for filling out the ques-
tionnaire the Navy gives each applicant and would like to for-
ward it, or have it forwarded to anyone sincere in their request
foraC.O. discharge.
You can also mention that | received most of my information
from Bob Clark, American Friends Service Committee, 319 E.
25th Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218.
Peace,
Vaughn Zapchenk
272 East 150th St.
Harvey, Illinois 60426
THIS IS WHAT WETRE GOING TO BE DOING IN EARLY MAY IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
April 24 " Gis and vets will lead a march of hundreds of thousands thro
brothers home now, and to get NixonTs machinery out of Southeast Asia.
May 1 " PeopleTs Festival in Rock Creek Park: a celebration of our si
day of implementing the Treaty.
gning the Peace Treaty and the first
LETTERS
Dear Brothers,
! am a ~2 white and ~2 Indian Marine captive at Camp Lejeune
North Carolina. | just got back from UA and am getting a UD
from the service. Within the next 2 months | have had 2 court
martials and 2 office hours, and want out of the Green Suck. |
no longer feel that it is my duty to fight in something that | am
treated like an animal in, and no longer believe in. | am a
human being and | love my country but | feel that once | am
Out people will hassel me because | have gotten a UD. What
could you suggest for me to do to overcome these rednecks?
Here at Lejuene the Lifers have a 2-man patrol that walks
around base and writes people up if their hair is too long, or
their boots not shined, utilities not starched and other things
that are not reg. in the book. | have received one chit already
and it was for my hai-. | have not been paid for 3» weeks &
do not feel that they will pay me anything until my discharge.
! would like to distribute Bulkheads on base. Please send
me about 50 copies. | would like to get something |! believe in
Started out here to let the people know what itTs all about. |
have been a Pvt. for 16 out of 18 months, and am tired of re-
ceiving all the shit from up at the top. | am going to continue
my activities once on the outside. All Power To The People
Brother Peace
Dear Mothers of Peace (this letter was sent to Another Mother
for Peace, a group of anti-war women)
As | told you, my son is a POW. The recent raid horrifies
and disgusts me.
There is a group quite recently established consisting of the
families of POWs. Théy were given an office in Washington
to work out of. Naturally this group has Nixon's blessing since
the Administration is using them to create public sympathy so
that it can justify continuing this horrible, unpopular war.
| was asked to represent Hawaii"/ refused. Though | would
give my life for my son | do not want to completely destroy
a nation in order that he be freed, nor add to more of our own
men's deaths. | don't think he would want me to!
Granted we have some good men in Washington who want
the U.S. to have the Godly decency and courage to get out"
but apparently not enough of them. So we continue to pursue
this war no matter how many hundreds of thousands of lives
it costs! The truth of the matter is that all our sons in Vietnam
are POWs.
Mrs. Jane G. Dudley, Honolulu, Hawaii
ARMED FARCES
AT TARAS
San Diego/Oceanside/Los Angeles: The people there
are putting together an evening show with Jane Fonda
and friends. ThereTs no definite location yet, but the
ugh the city. All will be there to get you
May 2 " Rally bringing together all the groups united to enforce the Treaty. Nixon's final opportunity to
accept the Treaty before people take the streets.
May 3 & 4 " Actions and disruptions directed against government activity: oIf the government won't stop the
war, we'll stop the government.�
May 5 " United action by all groups and individuals to enforce a moratorium on business as usual. We will
encircle the Capitol and insist that Congress stay in session until they ratify the PeopleTs Peace Treaty.
May 16 " Armed Forces Day. Demonstrations are planned throughout the area.
date is set at May 15. There will also be a variety of
activities set up in San Diego proper, including taking
the PeopleTs Peace Treaty to guys in Balboa Naval Hos-
pital. For information contact (714) 239-2119 in San
Diego, (213) 748-4662 in Los Angeles, and (714) 757-
0901 at Camp Pendleton.
Tacoma: A huge rally and celebration is planned for
Steilacoom Park, with bands, workshops, and food for
all. It will involve Gls from Fort Lewis, McChord AFB,
Fairchild AFB, and Bremerton Naval Shipyard. Guys
are being encouraged to flood their base commanders
with applications for conscientious objector status.
April 24 " Gls and vets will lead a march of more than 100,000 people, demanding that Nixon get you brothers Also, a sick call strike will take place on May 3. For
home now. Gls will meet at Hamilton Park, Geary and Steiner Streets, 9:30 am. nea Pacific Counselling Service at
Fort Ord: The plans here are still fuzzy. Guys want to
plan a rally involving local residents, students from
near-by colleges, and Gls from base. The emphasis here
is on local unity against the military monster. A march
to the base may also occur. Contact (408) 373-2305.
THIS IS WHAT WETRE GOING TO BE DOING IN EARLY MAY IN SAN FRANCISCO.
May 1 " Rally and celebration in Dolores Park, Free all political prisoners (that means you!)
May 2 " PeopleTs Peace Treaty celebration in Golden Gate Park
May 3 & 4 " Local groups in the Bay Area will confront corporations which profit from the war.
May 5 " Leaflet downtown San Francisco and rap with people coming to work about the Treaty. Gathering at
11:15 am near Standard Oil Buildings on Market and Bush streets: guerilla theater. In the afternoon,
we will go into offices with the Treaty: no business as usual.
wh. BW...
After telling world that the anti-war movement was
Jead or at least laying low for awhile, the pig media
Jecided not to tell folks about opposition to the Laos in-
vasion. Planning for the spring offensive against the
war was just beginning when the anti-war forces re-
ceived a telegram from Madame Binh, the Provisional
evolutionary Government's representative at the Paris
Peace Talks, saying that tens of thousands of US and
Saigon troops had invaded Laos.
In at least one city, Boston, emergency plans had
deen drawn up weeks before for such situation. Four
~housand people braved freezing temperatures to meet
at Boston Common. A few hours later, 300 demonstra-
tors took off for local banks. Thousans marched thru
Ann Arbor, Michigan. The mayor and some members of
the city council joined the march.
The National Broadcasting Company was the target
of three thousand demonstrators in New York City.
After a rally in Time Square, a delegation from the
march met with officials of NBC to denounce the of-
ficial news blackout of the Laos invasion and to demand
that the media not black out the anti-war movement
too. Many demonstrators carried the Pathet Lao flag,
the flag of the liberation forces of Laos, to show that
the US had extended the war to Laos.
MONTEREY, SAN FRANCISCO, SAN DIEGO
OAKLAND, TACOMA, WASH., TOKYO, JAPAN
Name and military number
At Kent State in Ohio, the scene of the shooting of
four students last year during protests against the inva-
sion of Cambodia, 500 students defied a ban on campus
demonstrations to seize a building for a teach-in. Six
days earlier thousands had denied the ban to demon-
strate against the war and unfurl the flag of the Na-
tional Liberation Front of South Vietnam (so-called VC)
over the school.
At Stanford University, the spring offensive got
underway in midwinter. In early January, Ambassador
Henry Cabot Lodge was drowned out by demands that
he explain his role in Vietnam when he tried to address
a campus gathering. Lodge has served as ambassador
to Saigon and chief negotiator at the Paris Peace talks.
After the invasion, thousands marched through. the
streets of Palo Alto and several hundred students seized
campus computer facilities threatening to destroy them
in retaliation for US destruction in Vietnam and Laos.
Students abandoned the computer facilities voluntarily.
Four hundred medical and anthropology students set
up a committee to help the North Vietnamese and
people in the liberated zones in South Vietnam as oa
concrete way to show our disgust with NixonTs invasion
of Laos.� .
In Berkeley, Calif., thousands took to the streets
where they clashed with police. One cop was put out
of action and an Atomic Energy Commission car was
burned. Other demonstrations and teach-ins were re-
ported in Washington, D.C., Seattle, Chicago, Madison,
and Portland.
With the invasion of Laos, the underground also
stepped up its activities.
Two recruiting offices, one for the Marine Corps and
one for the Air Force, were bombed in New York while
the Oakland, Calif., Induction Center, scene of a week-
long militant protest against the draft in 1967, was ex-
tensively damaged by a bomb. A home-made bomb
was found at the Municipal Auditorium in Austin,
Texas, while Lyndon Johnson and Governor Preston
Smith were attending a dinner there. Guerrillas carried
out an unsuccessful firebomb attack against the home
of multimillionaire William R. Hewlett in Palo Alto,
Calif. Hewlett, head of Hewlett-Packard, is the former
partner of David Packard, chief aide to the Secretary of
Defense. Hewlett-Packard has made millions off of
government/defense contracts.
While the spring offensive got underway, CBS re-
ported that Senators leading the Congressional opposi-
tion to the war agreed to Sec. of State RogersT demand
that they tone down their criticism of the Laos invasion
to avoid a odomestic fuss.� Rogers made his request
before a private session of the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee, home of leading war critics like Sen.
Fullbright, Church, and Symington.
Many servicemen are discontented
with their present status within the
military, but- unaware of existing al-
ternatives.
Military regulations offer a number
of alternatives by which a serviceman
can be discharged, ranging from con-
scientious objection to physical disa-
bility. Servicemen can also receive
non-combatant status.
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page 11
oA confidential Army directive obtained from Viet-
nam shows that Army commanders have been order-
ed to intercept and confiscate personal, first-class
mail containing anti-war or other dissident publica-
tions sent to soldiers there...�
This shouldnTt come as a surpirse, but this directive
is Clearly illegal. HereTs why.
1( Article 65-1, para. 8-3 (rev. 12 Dee. 68):
oThe secrecy of the mail is inviolable. Military
postal personnel will not break, nor permit to be
broken, the seal of any first class mail while in
military channels.�
2( A Dept. of Army letter entitled oGuidance
on Dissent� sent to all commands in May, 1969,
said that, o~A commander may not prevent dis-
tribution of a publication simply because he
does not like its contents,� and oA commander
must have cogent reasons, with supporting evi-
dence, for any denial of distribution privileges.
The fact that a publication is critical of govern-
ment policies is not in itself a grounds for denial
Aside from being illegal, the directive shows the
stupidity of the Brass"censorship of the mail was
happening in Nam anyway, so all this directive did is
publicize their illegal actions.
If your mail is being tampered with, let us know.
We're putting together a legal action against the
Dept of the Army"we intend to blow their cover"
but we have to have documented proof. Attention
all brothers serving as mail unit clerks"this
directive is illegal. YouTre not bound to follow it.
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We urge you to march for peace April 24.
We'd do it ourselves, but we're in Vietnam.
Members of the First Air Cavalry Division, U.S. Army *
PFC Michael DiLuigi, SP/4 George Stump, PFC Larry Widner,
SP/4 William Hepler, SP/4 Bob Matteson, PFC Paul J. Forter,
SP/5 Jerry Johnson, SP/5 Leroy F. Parr, SP/4 Joseph W. Gibbs, Sr.,
PFC Ernest Aguilar, PFC Michael Neff, SP/4 James D. Lofland,
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Mottmiller, Sgt. Ray Scott Ronan, SP/4 Michael Parisi, SP/4 Jerome L.
Jones, PFC Edward Tomezyk, SP/4 Milo J. Alltop, SSG Lester Sinclair,
SP/4 Leon R. Burton, SP/4 James B. Schock, PFC Leslie G. Lucas,
PFC Harry Colon, SP/4 Barry Parker, PFC Thomas F. Hummel,
SP/4 Roy Wheeler, SP/4 James Brown, SP/4 Leo Woott, PFC Mose
Winchester, PFC (uadelupe De La Rosa, SP/4 Joseph David Stepp,
SP/4 William Belby, PFC Nathaniel Burton, SP/4 Thomas J. McGirr,
SP/4 William J. Videtto, PFC J. Belcher, SP/4 Charles J. Withers,
SP/4 Richard Liscomb, SP/4 Fred Malone, Jr., PFC Daniel Phillips.
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