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Bracco BriersBRAGG BRIEFS is published in the spirit of the Declaration of Independenceand the United States Constitution. It is a free press, published by activeduty GI's stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. PRAGG BRIEFS is dedicatedto realizing the vision of the American Revolution of liberty and justice:for all peoples of the world.VOL. 4 NO. JUNE 1971OPERATION xAWARENESS §IS DYINGThe fact is that the army is facedwith a massive narcotic addictionepidemic-- there are literally tensof thousands of active duty GIs doinghard drugs and things keep gettingSPARE CHANGE; Operation Awareness, Fort Bragg'shighly publicized drug rehabilitationprogram has been nearly put to deathby the army. As of the first week inJune, the very promising in-patientpart of the program has ceased toexist because of the army's refusal¥ provide enough personnel to staffit.The out-patient drug clinic willcontinue as of now, but even thislooks shaky given the local brassTattitude.The in-patient program revolvedaround ward # 30 at Womack Army Hosp-ital where GIs, mostly those addictedto heroin, could come to live forawhile, receive medical and psycho -logical therapy and hopefully beattheir habit. The brass at Bragg justwouldn't come up with enough peopleto be therapists, corpsmen and doother necessary jobs on the ward.Strangely enough, the hospitalitself is overstaffed and there arequalified personnel in other unitsaround post doing important thingslike policing up pinecones.theOn May 21, six days after theappearance of an anti-war statementin the Fayetteville Observer signedby 29 Ft. Bragg-Pope AFB officers,28 of the 29 officers were calledin to see their respective unitcommanders.All of them were questioned con"cerning their beliefs about the war,and at least 12 of the officers wereoffered the opportunity to resignfrom the Army.The Concerned Cfficer Movementsponsored statement ran in the MayT edition of the Observer and readin part: "We, the undersigned offic-ers e.eWish to make known our feelingsabout the immoral and wasteful warin which our country is embroiled.We agree with what we feel to be themajority view in this country thatthe war in Vietnam should end. WeworseeThirty to forty-five thousand GIsin Viet Nam are estimated to be usinghard drugs according to the govern-ment's own figures. Many Nam vetssay that the figure should be muchhigher.A Department of Defense spokesmanrecently admitted that there are atleast 300 users of hard drugs leavingViet Nam each week.Nobody has to tell a Bragg GI howthick skag is around here or about the :hundreds, maybe thousands of GIs andWACs who are strung out.The military is getting a badreputation with the American peoplebecause of its drug problems. There-fore some of the brass seized uponupon Operation Awareness and milkedit for every bit of good publicitythey could. The army has used 0.A.SULLITEN: As we go to press, the |Bragg Brass is reconsidering the |fate of in-patient OperationAwareness. there is furtherhenge, there will be an 2wexplenatory leaflet iPaper's moe CLS g ¥ .side thisE&&aoscont. on page 11ARMY oPURGES:exercise our constitutional rightsto add our views to those who havealready spoken out. With them wedemand the iwithdrawal. of all Amer-ican military personnel and advisorsfrom that embattlea land by the endof 1971."The Public Information Office atFort Bragg released a statement tothe national press confirming that28 officers had been councilled bytheir commanders, and that in otheinterest of intellectual honesty",the officers should resign becausethe statement was contrary.to theoath officers take wpon being com-missioned.The Army did not commint onwhether the criterion of "intellec-tual honesty" applied to enlistedmen as well as officers, nor didthey comment on whether only the 28OFFICERSofficers should resign "in the interest of intellectual honesty" or allservicemen and women who are opposedto the war.The Army did admit, however, thatthe officers were within their legalrights to publish signed statementsin opposition to the war.The Army's reaction to the organ-ized dissent of officers at Fort Braggshows the lack of tolerance for legaldissent on the part of its members.The Ft. Brage Chapter of the Con-cerned Officers Movement was formedin Sept. of 1970. The nucleus of theorganization was two West Point grad-uates, David Vaught & Cornelius Cooper.Both have since been discharged fromthe Army.COM has one primary reason forexistance and that is to end the: cont. on page 11

Dear Editor:Attorney General John MitchellSays our nation faces "peril fromwithin." Truer words were never spo-ken. Capitalist exploitation, imper-lalism, economic royalism, mtlitar-ism, power politics, racism, religi-ous, bigotry and hypocrisy, crime,hate, and fear are tearing our greatnation apart. So what else is new?But I don't think the Attorney~General was referring to these parti-cular perils. He was undoubtedly re-ferring to the "political subver-sives" who would seek to change allthis! Those 'radical-liberals! nodoubt, who would do away with thecorrupting influences that have£rown rank in our system of society,the malignancies representine thereal peril from within,It 1s ironic that our contrivedCold War against the 'reé peril!without, should have triggered theradical demands for change that JohnMitchell now refers to as the *perilfrom within.!The long suffering American peo-ple could tolerate domination, ex-ploitation, poverty, political andeconomic manipulation, and the manyother inherent evils of full-blownCapitalism, for themselves, but theruthless and wanton slaughter ofmillions of innocent peasants at thenends of American imperialism and inthe name of American democracy wasthe straw that broke the camel'sback,The Vietnam war was our undoing.There can be no turning back now. Wehave reached the point of no return,from which we can only go forward toa new and better America; a country |free of the corrupting influencesdragging us down today. All power to�the people.Reynolds MoodyLt.Col USMC (Ret)pet planDear friends,I agree whole-heartedly with RogerDugan (see letter in March BB -ed.);trying to reform kapitalism is a wastof time. We've got to abolish it, oncand for all. éPeople are always asking us whatwe'd put in its place, and some-~times we're at a loss for swords; wejust know that anything would bebetter than this stinking system.well, the FET Plan gives us a readyanswer for this--all we have to do isgive them a copy of Moody's pamphletTand say."something like that!"The PET Plan is a grass-rootsprogram which has these features: (1)an ingenious scheme of participatorydemocracy which enables the people toorganize and take over control thezovernment, (2) abolition of thekapitalist system, and (3) establish-.ment of a cooperative economic democ-racy in:which the means of productionwould be owned and controlled by thepeople.To find out more about the Pet Plawrite to U.S. rarm News, 1024 GrandAve, Des Moines, Iowa, 50309. It onlytakes two to form a study group.Sincerely,Mark LaneCID ATTACK WACTSHello, I'm a sister WAC, but Ican't give my name because if I didthe CID would probably get me.Most of you know what the CID hasbeen doing, for you see it everyday and are fed up with it. Butmaybe you didn't know that 57 WACshave already been shown the gatesand told to get out. If you don'tbelieve 57 WACs have been kickedout, just look around-- all thoseWACs haven't been given a free tourto Europe. In one platoon therewere supposedly only 6 WACs leftone day! The CID isn't through yet;you may be next.The army is using WACsagainst WACs. They have some sisterWACs who are acting as the eyes ofthe CID. And the CID will useevery tactic to get you to talk.They may come and drag you outof aWAC company; on duty at work, off.duty, or even on K.P. Then they askyou a lot of questions, and if youdon't answer them the way the littleCID boys want you to, you get the ax,You get so nervous and threatened,you end up talking--making state-ments about sister WACs, eithertattling on them or making upfictitious statements just to getthe CID off your back. The army isusing this tactic to divide us, WACsisters, by making us rat on otherWACs. Don't let them do it. Don't ©TALK TO THE CID. It's your legalright not to. (Article 31.) You canalso demand to have a lawyer presentwhen they question you.It just takes a couple of state-ments to the CID before WAC companykicks you out-- even if the state-ments are false. That's it; whatkind of"evidence" is a couple ofstatements? Many of the WACs werethrown out for supposedly being gayor on drugs. But many weren't gayor on drugs. Someone just wrote astatement about them. You see, if ~you cooperate with the CID, by wri-oting a few statements, you have agood chance of getting out on ageneral under honorable conditionsdischarge rather than an undesirable discharge. *WAC company has got us WACsso uptight and paranoid about beingreported to the CID as gay, thatwe avoid sitting together in thedining room or buses. It getspretty lonely here when you can'teven be close friends with otherWACs for fear of being labelledgay. Don't let them scare you fromrelating to your WAC sisters.eFurthermore, the way the companydischarges you is hardly human. Theylocked up all the possessions,including all personal clothes, ofone discharged WAC last week. THAT'SILLEGAL! Finally a fuss was made,and her possessions were returned.~Then they made this WAC strip of heruniform in front of a bunch of~people. What could be more degradingThen you get an undesirable dischargewhich stays with you all your lifeand can hinder your getting a job.cont. on pg. 10Haymarket SquareBOOKSTORE" Books and pamphlets on Black Liberation(Seale, Cleaver, Malcolm X, Fanon, DuBois),Socialist thought (Ho,Mao, Marx), thirdworld revolution (Che, Fidel), Women'sLiberation, fiction, poetry and drama." GI Rights and Army Justice" And posters, buttons,shirts,FTA and OPENHuey speaks records, underground papersandeeveeLAGcoming soon a craft center.Tues - Fri3-11 pmSat-Sun1-12 pmcorner of Bragg Blvd. & Hay St.eralh hvala s ° ~ gree ey Bay oeONS OSa TSUos OV 2U9 DS eu

page 3COUNTER ARMED FORCES DAYMay 15, 1971.It must have been a confusing dayfor some people.Not only had the annual war showat Ft. Bragg spawned a counter armedforces day. But this year the coun-ter armed forces day had provoked acounter - counter armed forces dayrally.Then 611 three programs werewashed down in thunderstorms thathit Fayetteville that Saturdayafternoon.But behind this facade was thestory of how local officials willcollaborate in ways that sometimesare illegal and sometimes are justsneaky to hassle the anti-wargroupseWhen GI's United went to getpermission to use Rowan Park (aspacious park a short walk from thedowntown) for this years rally, theywere told that the park was alreadyreserved by the Fayetteville Cumber-land County Youth Group for an eco-logy day.But when May 15th rolled around,it was clear that what was happeningin Rowan Park was a ploy to drawpeople from our rally. The Fayette-ville Observer called it a "counter-counter armed forces day rally."And that's what it was. It turnedout to be the biggest flop of theday drawing only a scattering ofpeople.Instead of Rowan Park the cityofficials offered Clark Park - abeautiful but obscure park whichhas no water supply, no electricity.and no latrines of any sort. It isalso four miles from downtown.There is not even a sign on U.S.401 that says this is the way toClark Park. When some GI's tried totack a sign to a telephone polemarking the park, a policeman saidtake it down. The policeman made itclear he was only following instruc-tions.But the local antiwar groups are~used to this kind of harassment.When Jane Fonda and her friends~came down in March for the USSFshow, the Haymarket Square stafftried to reserve Cumberhand MemorialAuditorium. But the manager ille-gally refused.By the time a court injunctionhad been obtained it was too lateto transfer the show and instead ithad to be split into three separateshows at the Haymarket Coffeehousewhich has a smaller seating capa-city.But back to May 15.The truly inspiring move was themarch of 500 G@'s and supportersthrough downtown Fayetteville. Rightup Hay Street.A year and a half ago the Fayetteville Police had denied GI's Uniteda street permit. But the march washeld anyway.This time the police did not trythat tactic. Permission was grantedand relations with the Police De-partment remained better than withthe rest of the city hierarchy.All along Hay Street GI's werecoming out of stores to join thefour mile march to Clark Park.About one o'clock the rallybegan.A soldier from the 28th CivilAffairs Company spoke for GI's Uni-ted. He said: "We believe that thefirst priority is to end the war in Indochina. But we know now thatwhen the war ends, our job does not.The war has grown out of the poli-tical and economic institutions of~this country. And unless we changethese institutions, there will be_another Vietnam and another Viet-nam after that."_ Rick Ford, a captain at Pope,spoke for COM. He told GI's thatofficers support their demands foran end to the officer caste priv-ileges.One of the highlights of the ral-ly came when Bob Rix, an expért onmilitary law, from Washington, D.C.talked about the political implicastions of the ~New Volunteer Army.'He said that it really amounts +tto trying to buy the GI's off witha bottle of beer in the barracksand an extra quarter inch of hair.He predicted it wouldn't work.Rix stayed in Fayetteville forfour days to help train local GIorganizers in military law.dust before Howard Zinn, themain speaker,was to begin, the rainscame. Everyone had:-to hurry down tothe Haymarket Square Coffeehouse.The coffeehouse was packed and inhigh spirits as Zinn, 2 professorfrom Boston University began a mo-ving talk.. He said that he hadtalked to many college students, buttaht he was really thrilled that GIswere turning against the war.He said that words distort ourBOB RIX RAPSmoral perspective and urged civildisobedience as a way of showing thetruth of things.Larry Street talked about howVietnam veterans were finding nojobs and poor medical attention upontheir return home, and Deborah Ross-man gave a touching account of hertalks with Indochinese women.Alyce Forster talked about whatit is like to be a GI wife (see thespecial spring issue of BraggBriefs). Other speakers includedlocal high school students and arepresentative of labor.The rally was about over.Bob Laroy, the Third World Band,and Pill Carmichael had helped outimmensely with music. When theyfound themselves without micro-phones, they just strummed harderand sang louder.Somehow things hung together in-spite of the rain and inspite ofthe city fathers. All that was leftwas to watch on tv that night theevidence that all across the countryGI's and WAC's and airmen and sai-lors were telling the machine that~the people caught in the machine :don't like the war and maybe don't:like the machine either.

page 4«NEW ACTIONARMY ?If you GI's want to know what'shappening, in the Army, you ought toread the straight press: The NewYork Times, Life Magazine, Timemagazine, etc.The Army has become liberalized.Your hair can be 4+ inch longer;you don't have to sign in and outanymore; there's an enlisted men'scounsel you can take -your problemsTto; a drug rehavilitation center todry out at; no more reveille forma-"tions; and now beer in the barracks_Now, if you want to know if this'~liberalization has improved your lifeI suggest you ask anyone of yourfellow liberated GI's. Ask the bro-ther from the 82nd whether longersideburns makes policing pine conesany different, whether no reveilleformations has injected any sensi-bility into sweeping sand streets.If you don't trust his answersand want to find out for yourself,experiment on a CO application. Nexttime you are ordered up for RiotControl tell the Man you conscien-tiously object to stopping anti-war demonstrators, or tell him thatyou object to being a strikebreaker, a scab.But let's not knock it all; get-ting up at 7:30 beats getting up at6:30 and who knows, filing a com-plaint with the enlisted men's coun-sel might get you off guard duty fora night.But let's suppose for a secondthat all this liberalization shit isgood and just. And while we're sup-posing that let's take a look at how_all that liberalization came about.It didn't come about because thebrass decided to change and be nice.It didn't come about because Generalwestmoreland and his cronies took awalk down the road to Damascus andhad a vision. These new gratuitiesthese liberalizations, they're notéifts, not hand outs, they're thespoils of a long shitty strugglefilled with lots of GI pain andmisery. They're the spoils of struggrthat last year culminated ~with109,000 GIs going to court martial,with another half million going toArticle 15, with. 89,000 GIs desertingand a quarter million going AWOL.oThis struggle was waged by indi-vidual GIs acting out of frustrationand hatred for the military. GIsmade contemptible to themselves bya system that categorically degradesand depversonalizes people with mean-in;,less work, bosses who wear theirbrains on their sleeves and prisonsthat beat, kick and isolate men. ona matter of principle.And now, after this first stageof the struggle is over, the mili-tary brass, feeling worried about theimprisonments, the punitive dis-~.charges, the 30,000 heroin addicts inViet Nam, the court martials, is try-to buy you off with a quarter inch of~ hatr and bottle of beer in the bar-racks. ;BarracksToo HUTFor Work396-6718Fort Bragg Reg. 40-8 limits theamount of work you can be forcedto do this summer in the hot sun.Working conditions are dividedinto four categories which dependon four factors: temperature,humidity, air movement, and heatradiation.You can find out the heat cat-egory by calling the only officialsource " Womack Preventive Medi-cine Unit. The number is 6-6718and it is a recorded message.If your commander does not actwith discretion after a warning isput out, you may file a 138 com"-plaint with JAG against him forrefusing to act under F.B.Reg40-8.CATEGORY I: Discretion shouldbe used in implementing heavy ex-ercise or work schedules of un- ~seasoned personel. Once acclimatedtroops can operate under normalschedules.CATEGORY II: HeavyT work andstrenuous exercise should be avoi-ded for unseasoned personel. Onceacclimated, troops can operate un-der normal schedules.CATEGORY III: All physicaltraining should be halted. Outdoorclasses in the sun will be avoided.Acclimated personel can carry onlimited activity for not more thansix hours a day. When marching aminimum of one 10-minute break willbe taken every 30 minutes.CATEGORY IV: ALL OUTDOOR TRAININGWILL BE SUSPENDED. ALL OUTDOOR PHYS-ICAL DUTY WHICH IS NOT CONSIDERED., (20 \BE|/ OF. EMERGENCY NATURE; WILL BE.~SUSPENDED. «::isi eee E SE RERESUnlivableape ge 8We at Bragg Briefs would liketo take this opportunity to thankour Post Commander Lt. Gen. JohnH. Hay for so beautifying this postthrough the use of all of those~lovely new blue and white signs thatare appearing all over post. Maybechanging signs just because youdon't happen to like the old onesdoesn't sound like too good of a iea-son to most people but there again,most people don't have three starson their collars (and since when isa general governed by reason?). Sowhat if it is costing over $10,000for the new signs.And while we're on the subjectof money and discussing it so freelywe should realize how lucky we areto be able to do so, some people onpost can't talk so freely - like thepeople responsible for remodeling thethe good General's quarters. Allthey will say is that it's costing afortune to tear apart everything thatGeneral Tolson: had done to the housewhen he got here and refurnish it asGeneral Hay desires. I guess the twoof them just have different tastes.Let's look at the money sT tua-tion seriously now. Ft. Bragg re=ceived approximately $250,000 raecently to make conditions herebetter. That sure sounds oike a lotof money until you realise thatabout 25,000 people live on post.Simpie arithmetic: shows that thisyields about $10 per person on post.How. much can you do with 310? Maybeit'll replace the broken windows,maybe it'll pay for the civilianbuses that now serve post and maybeit'll fix the plumbing in the-barracks and maybe it'll do some-thing else. One thing's for sure, itwon't do all of these things. Maybethe $1C,000 being used for new signswouldn't help much but it sure wouldhave helped_some (not to mention the~redecorating costs of his home).

VSBlack brothers and sisters in themilitary look at your position, yourrole in white twentieth century Amer-ica and ask yourselves some very soulsearching questions about that role.What does it mean to be black in thearmy? What does this war machine doto us as black GIs and the commun-ities we return to? Are there anysimilarities between this machine andthe American industrial weight whichwe have carried noW for the last 30decades?22% of the American dead in VietNam have been black, when we formonly 10% of the population. If op-portunity is equal in the Army thenwe can assume that we have receivedthe same training and discipline asany other soldier. Could it be thatthe missions we are sent on are dif-ferent in nature or danger or both?If so, what is the reasoning behindit?We know that every year, every dayblack men and women are denied jobs,educational opportunities, and know-ledge of the pride and history of ourpeople. We know that black brothersand sisters are arrested, imprisoned,terrorized, and despised simply fortrying to find a solution or remedyto the vast social ills white Americahas inflicted upon us. We are re~-minded when we point out the exis-tance of hate groups such as theklan, john birch society , army ect.that we have corresponding groups.Sometimes we are reluctant to saythat we would not feel the need forsuch protective organizations, whichin fact are not hate groups, if therewere truly no danger to us and ourcommunities. Where does this reluc-tance come from? Is it fear or weari-ness? Is it fear of losing somethingwe are constantly promised but only atoken few receive, or is it wearinessfrom repeating the same tired truthto deaf, unyielding , ignorant ears?T after considering these and othercircumstances of our environment per-haps we can assume that our missionin the army is not of the best -in-tentions of our Judeo-Christianfounding fathers who's missionariesinstructed us in turning the othercheek while they continued the rape ofAfrica and Asia.in the name of every-thing white and holy.We are herded into reduction (induction center by name) centers to bestripped, shoved, stamped A-1 nigger.and hustled intobuses and away, usu-ally to dixie, where we learn ourplaces-- as American fighting men.Our Afros ~are destroyed and we aretold we no longer need them becausethere is no discrimination in theArmy and thus no need for unity. Wegraduate from basic and AIT and de-"part for Nam or wherever. There, tn *the absence of a real ~fro, we make aunity band for our arms, for our bro-44 beBLACK AMERICATHE armythers to see and be able to identifyus immedately as aware and havingblack consciousness , Asia is so faraway from Nashville or Watts.Then we look around and ask our-selves what is life like on the otherside of this OD curtain (curtain itis, did you ever notice the stamp inthe right-hand corner of your induc-tion papers that says, "Approval notrequired")? How are our chances for~advancement in this promised land,which We are expected to believe isso totally divorced from the rest ofracist America? "As' I look around myself I see offi-ces full of white colonels, majors,captains, and so on. Lieutenant'sranks are sprinkled with blackofficers. I have yet to see oneblack sergeant major and if I didtomorrow it still wouldn't be enoughto justify the lie that there is nodiscrimination in the army. =In other words, it has been my ex-perience and many other black GI'sexperiences that. black officers andenlisted men fill the lower ranks ex-cept for that occasional token per-son who usually is black by appear-ances only.Why does this difference exist?Where does the .responsibility forthis inequality lie? Why have we beenso obviously lied to--again?The army's need for us is thatvital. How can we use that need toprofit ourselves and other exploitedThird World Peoples?yaoWE Ye~"Mii it Weftpage 5- WAC'SSTORYI am a WAC and I know that ,theWomen's Army Corp's is based on liesI dont know what some wacs were toldbut I know what I was told. None ofit has been kept and it's been hellsince I raised my right hand.The beginning of the whole thingwas when I had that little talk withthe recruiter. He made a lot of pro-mises to me. If*you listed all thepromises that were not kept it wouldbe as big as the New York phone book.And then there's basic training.You wouldn't believe what I or therest of the rest of the women wentthrough. The first week or so isfinding out the do's and don'ts,(mostly the don'ts) which companyyou'll pe in,and filling out papers.You can't talk to men thefirst four weeks, and men are calledtrees. After that you may talk to thetrees, but only if they ask you forinformation. You can't go anywherewithout asking, and then another wachas to go with you even just to stepoutside. When you do get to go any-where, they tell you where you canand cannot go. Throughout trainingyou can't even drink beer(the mencan) no matter how old you are. Sureyou go to school to learn, but mostof it you already knew. In one classyou're told you can voice the thingswrong, but if you do they take yourname down and then you get it.In the meantime they tell youwhen to get up(4:30 A.M. & 3:30 A.M.)and when you can go to bed(10:00). Wemarch a lot , to meals, to and from_school, and of course when we go tolearn to march.In the barracks there's 28 to 40in a bay. You have to learn not tosay what you think because othersare always listening in. They giveyou little time to write letters,and if theyr'e having something likea@ ball game you have to go even ifyou dont want to. You're not allowedto tell what's going on to any visit-ors that may come by once in awhile.They said that after training itwould be easier. Well, as the oldsaying goes, "the fires down a lit-tle, but it's still hell". It's nobetter now than it was in training.In fact, it's not safe for a wac towalk even one block by herself orwith anyone else. You either getbeat up, or raped, or both. Whenthat happens to a wac the CID make'sher feel it's all her fault. It'smuch easier for a man to get a newpost than for us.Now let's talk about the wacs andCID(the army'sanswer to the low cop).They're looking into the WAC companyfor wacs who are using, drugs and aregay. Well,I know there's not thatmany wacs in either category. I doknow some people are using this toget rid of people they don't like.Wheh CID talks you have to listen,and CID is using. some wacs to spy onother wacs. CID is ~just after wacs.Wacs are treated worse than a maddog. Men try.to pick a wac up andwhen she doesn't get into the carthey call her all kinds of names. Menthink the reason wacs join the armyis to find a husband, which isn'ttrue.Also the wac company is dividedbecause of color, and the army givesyou the I don't care feeling. We'renot given many of our freedoms, noteven freedom of speech. That is whymy name is not on this story.Another thing that adds to all,.theproblems is our living conditions.Thebuildings we.live in have been con-demned twice; ~and lwetred %old:we won'tget new ones until 1973. »enoss

R. PRESIDENT, THE SPECTER OF heroin addic-tion is haunting nearly every community inthe nation.� With these urgent words, Sen-ator Vance Hartke spoke up on March 2 insupport of a resolution on drug control being considered inthe U.S. Senate. Estimating that there are 500,000 heroinaddicts.in the U.S., he pointed out that nearly 20 percentof them are teenagers. The concern of Hartke and othersis not misplaced. Heroin has become the major killer ofyoung people between 18 and 35, outpacing death fromaccidents, suicides or cancer, It has also become a majorcause of crime: to sustain their habits, addicts in the U.S.spend more than $15 million a day, half of it coming fromthe 55 percent of crime in the cities which they commit andthe annual $2.5 billion worth of goods they steal.But what they donTt know"and what no one is tell-ing them"is that neither the volcanic eruption of addictionin this country nor the crimes it causes would be possiblewithout the age-old international trade in opium (fromwhich heroin is derived), or that heroin addiction"like in-flation, unemployment, and most of the other chaotic forcesin American society today"is directly related to the U.S.war in Indochina.The connection between war and opium in Asia is as oldas empire itself. But the relationship has never been so sym-biotic, so intricate in its networks and so vast in its implica-tions. Never before has the trail of tragedy been so clearlymarked as in the present phase of U.S. involvement in South-east Asia. For the international traffic in opium has ex-panded in lockstep with the expanding U.S. military pres-ence there,At the same time thegovernment starts crash programs to rehabilitate drug usersamong its young people, the young soldiers it is sending toVietnam are getting hooked and dying of overdoses at therate of one a day. While the President is declaring war onnarcotics and on crime in the streets, he is widening the warin Laos, whose principal product is opium and which hasnow become the funnel for nearly half the worldTs supplyof the narcotic, for which the U.S. is the chief consumer.There would have been a bloodthirsty logic behind theexpansion of the war into Laos if the thrust had been toseize supply centers of opium the communists were hoard-ing up to spread like a deadly virus into the free world, Butthe communists did not control the opium there: proces-sing and distribution were already in the hands of the freeworld. Who are the principals of this new opium war? Theubiquitous CIA, whose role in getting the U.S. into Viet-nam is well known but whose pivotal position in the opium~trade is not; and a rogueTs gallery of organizations and. people"from an opium army subsidized by the NationalistChinese to such familiar names as Madame Nhu and VicePresident Nguyen Cao Ky"who are the creations of U.S.policy in that part of the world.One of the most successful of the opium entrepreneurswho travel these routes, a Time reporter wrote in 1967, isChan Chi-foo, a half-Chinese, half-Shan (Burmese) mod-ern-day warlord who might have stepped out of a JosephConrad adventure yarn.Moving the opium from Burma to Thailand or Laos is 2big and dangerous operation. One of ChanTs caravans, saysone awe-struck observer, may stretch in single file for wellover a mile, and may include 200 mules, 200 porters, 200cooks and camp attendants, and about 400 armed guards.Such a caravan can easily carry 15 to 20 tons of opium,worth nearly a million dollars when delivered to syndicatemen in Laos or Thailand._ To get his caravans to market, however, Chan must paya price, for the crucial part of his route is heavily patrollednot by Thais or Laotians but by nomadic Nationalist Chi-nese or Kuomingtang (KMT) troops. Still supported by theruling KMT on Taiwan, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shekTs93rd Division controls a major part of the opium flowingout of Burma and Thailand. Roving bands of mercenary.bandits, they fled to northern Burma in 1949 as ChiangTsarmies were being routed on the Chinese mainland, and havemaintained themselves since by buying opium from thenearby Meo tribesmen which they then resell, or by exactingtribute payments from entrepreneurs like Chan Chi-foo. Astravellers to the area attest, these troops also supplementtheir income by running Intelligence operations into Chinaand Burma for the U.S.In the summer of 1967 Chan Chi-foo set out from Burmathrough the KMTTs territory with 300 men and 200 pack-horses carrying nine tons of opium, with no intention of pay-ing the usual fee of $80,000 protection money. But troops cutoff the group near the Laotian village of Ban Houei Sai in anambush that turned into a pitched battle. Neither group,however, had counted on the involvement of the kingpin ofthe areaTs opium trade: the CIA-backed Royal Lao Govern-ment Army and Air Force, under the command of GeneralOuane Rathikoune. Hearing of the skirmish, the generalpulled his armed forces out of the Plain of Jars in north-eastern Laos where they were supposed to be fighting thePathet Lao guerrillas, and engaged two companies and hisentire air force in a battle of extermination against both sides.The result was nearly-30 KMT and Burmese dead and ahalf-ton windfall of opium for the Royal Lao Government.N A MOMENT OF revealing frankness shortly after thebattle, General Rathikoune, far from denying the rolethat opium had played, told several reporters that theopium trade was onot bad for Laos.� The trade pro-vides cash income for the Meo hill tribes, he argued, whowould otherwise be penniless and therefore a threat to LaosTspolitical stability. He also argued that the trade gives the Laoelite (which includes government officials) a chance to ac-cumulate capital to ultimately invest in legitimate enter-prises, thus building up LaosTs economy. But if these ration-alizations seemed weak, far less convincing was the generalTsassertion that, since he is in total control of the trade now,when the time comes to put an end to it he will simply putan end to it.ONTROL OF THE OPIUM TRADE has not always beenin the hands of the Lao elite, although the U.S.has been at least peripherally involved in whothe beneficiaries were since John Foster DullesTsfamous 1954 commitment to maintain an anti-communistLaos, The major source of the opium in Laos has alwaysbeen the Meo growers, who were selected by the CIA as itscounterinsurgency bulwark against the Pathet Lao guerrillas.The MeosT mountain bastion is Long Cheng, a secret base_80 miles northeast of Vientiane, built by the CIA during theo1962 Geneva Accords period.vhe CIA not only protects the opi-um in Long Cheng and various other pick-up points, but:also gives clearance and protection to opium-laden aircraftflying out.The vacuum that was created was quickly filled by theRoyal Lao Air Force, which began to use helicopters andplanes donated by the U.S. not only for fighting the PathetLao but also for flying opium out from airstrips pockmark-ing the Laotian hills. This arrangement was politically moreadvantageous than prior ones, for it consolidated the in-terests of all the anti-communist parties. The enfranchise-ment of the Lao elite gave it more of an incentive to carryon the war Dulles had committed the U.S. to back; the safetransport of the MeosT opium by an ideologically sanctianednetwork increased the incentive of these CIA-equipped and-trained tribesmen to fight the Pathet Lao. The U.S. gotparties that would cooperate with its foreign policy not onlyfor political reasons, but on more solid economic grounds.Opium was the economicT cement binding all the parties to-gether much more closely than anti-communism could.OPIUM. A considerable part of the opium and heroin remains inSaigon, where it is sold directly to U.S. troops or distributedto U.S. bases throughout the Vietnamese countryside. OneG.I. who returned to the states an addict was AugustSchultz.Probably a fifth of the men in his unit have at least triedjunk, August says. But the big thing, as his buddy RonnieMcSheffrey adds, was that most of the officers in his com-pany"including the MPs"knew about it. McSheffrey sawMPs in his own division (6th Battalion, 31st Infantry, 9thDivision) at Tan An shoot up, just as he says they saw him.He and his buddies even watched the unitTs sergeant-majorreceive payoffs at a nearby whorehouse where every kind ofdrug imaginable was available.An article by Kansas City newspaperwoman Gloria Em-erson inserted into the Congressional Record by SenatorStuart Symington on March 10 said: oIn a brigade head-quarters at Long Binh, there were reports that heroin use inthe unit had risen to 20 percent . . . ~You can salute an offi-cer with your right hand and take a ohit� (of heroin) inyour left,T an enlisted man from New York told me... .Along the 15-mile Bien Hoa highway running north to Sai-gon from Long Binh, heroin can be purchased at any of adozen conspicuous places within a few minutes, and was bythis reporter, for three dollars a vial.�Adding glamour to the labyrinthine intrigue of Viet-namTs opium trade throughout the late 1950s and early T60swas the famous Madame Nhu, the Dragon Lady of Saigon.Madame Nhu was in a position to be very likely coordinatorfor the entire domestic opium traffic in Vietnam;Just as the Nhus were consolidating their ownpower, a little-known figure entered the Diem military ap-paratus"a man who through the years would carefully ex-tend his control over the air force and end up eventuallyheir not only to the South Vietnamese government but tothe opium and heroin trade as well. That man was NguyenCao Ky,The first real light shed on the possible sources of KyTsextracurricular income came only in the spring of 1968,when Senator Ernest Gruening revealed that four yearsearlier Ky had been in the employ of the CIATs oOperationHaylift,� a program:which flew South Vietnamese agentsointo North Vietnam for the purpose of sabotage, such asblowing up railroads, bridges, etc.� More important. Kywas fired, GrueningTs sources claimed, for having beencaught smuggling opium from Laos back into Saigon! *When Ky came to power in February 1965, mostobservers supposed he had relinquished participation in theopium traffic (although it was ocommon knowledge� thatMadame Ky had replaced Madame Nhu as SaigonTs DragonLady and dealt in opium directly with Prince Boun Oum inSouthern Laos). However, a high Saigon military official towhom Ky at one time offered a place in the opium trafficsays Ky continued to carry loads ranging from 2000 to 3000kilos of opium from Pleiku to Saigon in the spring of 1965alter he had assumed power and after Operation Haylifthad been discontinued. Those runs included regular pickupsnear Dak To, Kon Tum and Pleiku. Since then there hasbeen no indication that Ky has in any way altered the trans-port. Corson, who returned to Vietnam: in 1965, observedthat KyTs involvement in the trade had become so routinethat it had lost almost all its adventure and intrigue.Historically most ofthe worldTs supply of opium and heroin came through well-established routes from Turkey, Iran and China.But high. Officials in the narcotics control division of the Canadiangovernment, and in Interpol, the International Police Agen-cy, confirm that since World War II"and paralleling theU.S. expansion in the Pacific"there has been a major re-direction in the sources and routing of the worldwide opiumtraffic."In his recent State of ~the~World address, Richard Nixon dealt directly with the inter-national narcotics traffic.. .. We have,� he gays, oworked closely with a large num-ber of governments, particularly Turkey, France, and Mexi-co, to try to stop the illicit production and smuggling ofnarcotics.� (authorsT emphasis)It is no accident that Nixon has ignored the real sourcesof narcotics trade abroad and by so doing has effectivelyprecluded any possibility of being able to deal with heroinat home. It is he more than anyone else who has underwrit-ten that trade through the policies he has formulated, thealliances he has forged, and most recently the political ap-pointments he has made.HAT HAS TAKEN PLACE in Indochina is morethan a flurry of corruption among select.dramatis personae in AmeticaTs great AsianDrama. The fact that Meo tribesmen havebeen nearly wiped out, that the Corsican MafiaTs AirOpium has been supplanted by the CIATs Air America,that Nationalist Chinese soldiers operate as narcoticsbandits, that such architects of U.S. democracy for the.East as the Nhus and Vice President Ky have been doperunners" EoOne of theupshots has been that the opium trade has been systema-tized, given U.S. technological expertise and a shipping andtransportation network as pervasive as the U:S. presenceitself.The ecology of narcotics has been dis-rupted and remade to coincide with the structure ofAmericaTs Asia strategy"T. Unimpeded by boundaries, scruplesor customs agents, and nurtured by the free flow of mil-itary personnel through the capitals of the Orient, theUnited States has"as a reflex of its warfare in Indochiria"built up a support system for the trade in narcotics thatis unparalleled in modern history.The U.S. went on a holy war to stamp out communism,and to protectT its Asian markets, and it brought homeheroin. It is a fitting trade-off, one that characterizes themoral quality of the U.S. involvement. This ugly warkeeps coming home, each manifestation more terrifyingthan the last; home to the streets of the teeming urbanghettos and the lonely suburban isthmus where in thelast year the number of teenage heroin addicts has takena quantum leap forward. Heroin has now become thenewest affliction of affluent America"of mothers in West-port, Connecticut, who only wanted to die when theytraced track-marks on their daughtersT elegant arms; or offathers in Cicero, Illinois, speechless in outrage whentheir conscripted sons came back from the war bringinghome a blood-stained needle as their only lasting souvenir.(Information obtained from Ranpastemagazine, May 1971.)

page 8When a GI is discharged, he usuallyfigures that he's through with theArmy. Bragg Briefs has learned thatthis is not always the case, Manyex GI's are being called up for a twoweek summer camp, even Vietnam Vets,Many reserve units have their summercamp at Fort Bragg and this month wetalked to several ex GI's who are 'training here. They are attached tothe 86ist Quartermaster Company ofNashville, Tennessee for two weeks,RONNIE I was drafted March 28,1968and I was a rigger with the 612th Qnhere at Fort Bragg. I stayed here for15 months and got out March 28, 1970.I am now here with the ready reserve.THEre are about 35 of us ex GI's.They sent me several letters after Igot out. We've been getting a wholelot of harassment here, can't donothing you want to. Just like basictraining all over again. We're sup-posed to be here to get training ineverything a rigger's supposed toknow. The only thing we've been do-ing is details over there for the612th who're so far behind on theirpacking that we have to do it fortt everyday.IMMY I came in the Army March1968. I spent two long miserableyears in this screwed=-up place withthe 82nd. I got outa little over ayear and a half ago. While I was inthe army I was a rigger I guess, be-cause it's what I was trained for,for over three months. Now that Iget out of the army they give me thisthing about how I'@ never have tocome back and then all of a suddenthey send me this letter, .Next thing you come up to this placewhere you're supposed to be riggersat and you find out ali you are isdamn replacements tor people theycan't get to do anything else around .here. We're with this Reserve com-pany up here from Tennessee, we'resupposed to be what they call ofil-lers"; all it is is just fill up thecompany where they won't have to puliany fucking details.That's stupid as hell: a guyalready pulled two years in the damnservice come back up here to pull de-tails and have inspections. Thenthese fuckers around here tell us toget our hair cut. We been out incivilian life over a ygar and a half,some of these guys even longer andthe dudes in our own company got hairlonger than we got and they don't saynothing to them. It's a bunch ofShit just put on us veterans and theshit around here just ain't gettin!pHJOE I was with the ist LOG in Viet-nam as a@ rigger. When I returnedfrom Vietnam, I returned to Fort Lew= |is, Washington and in a one-hour brief-ing we had an officer who told us thatall Vietnam returnees do not have tomeet any reserve training or summercamp. This was thes understanding.In our group we had 500 people and thiswas what we were told. About two yearslater I received my orders to come tospring tYaining atT Fort Bragg. Ididn't have time to question the VAoffice. After I got to Fort Bragg Ireported this to my company commanderand he told me to visit JAG and seewhat they had to say about.it/s Thefirst visit I went to JAG I question-ed him and he told me that he didn'tknow. He asked me what was my nameand serial number and if there was anymore people in the company with thesame problem. I told him there were8 Nam vets and one guy had been medi-vaced from Nam. He asked me to getTthe names of the people and bringthem back Thusday morning. So I vis-~ited him Thursday morning with thenames of the people and from what Icould see he hadn't done any more check-ing or anything like this, So he pull-ed out this law book and he looked un-der some article. He said the Army hasdifferent articles and clauses to backthemselves up with. OK, he read off anarticle about the Reserves, about Vi-etnam returnees and he said I quote "If& person served in Vietnam for one year,he does not have to attend any summercamp." and then he turned around and= Spent twolong miserableyears withthe 82ndsaid "Unless he is in the Regular Amy,Regular Reserve, or Standby Reserve."So he led me to understand there aretwo types of reserves so which categoryI fall in I don't know. Then he made ao| was withfew phone calls around post calling dif-ferent people. So from whatever theytold him he draws the conclusion thatthe Army has the right to call me forthe ist LOGReserve training even though I had beento Vietnam. He told me he didn't knowwhat category I was in so undoubtedlyI was in the standby reserve. From myin Vietnamas a rigger Tunderstanding of what he said the stand-by reserve works like this,Reserve has an annual trainingevery year,y they don't have enough people to filltheir quota for that year you will becalled up. I also asked how do theycall you. He said that it's ali arrangedSo if you are standby andthrough an IBM machine, and next thingyou know you have orders. The.last thinghe said was he didn't know what group:i was in and I asked him how I couldfind out and he told me he didn't know.The Regular ©

AN EDITORIALHow to nd a WarWe have decided, as an organization, to give ourstrong endorsement to the People's Peace Treaty.The People's Peace Treaty was originally negotiatedby students from the United States, South Vietnam andNorth Vietnam. It was then taken to Paris by the Amer-ican students. There Madame Binh, chief negotiator forthe NLF, agreed to its terms, but U.S. negotiators re-fused to even consider the proposals.This treaty calls for ending the war while ensuringthe safety of withdrawing American troops, POWs and Sai-gon government officials.The American people are tired of this war. Accordingto a recent Gallup Poll 73% want all U.S. troops out ofVietnam by the end of this year.The Indochinese people are tired of this war. It hasdestroyed their land, their homes, and their society.So why should the war continue? Who really wants itexcept a few. corrupt Vietnamese politicians who are get-ting rich off it and a few American politicians (likeLyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon) whose historical repu-- tations depend on the outcome?Nixon could end this war. He could bring all the GI'sincluding POWs home. But his steady refusal to take thisdecisive action, his determination to drag out this in-volvement as long as possible makes it necessary that wethe people of America negotiate a settlement of our ownwith the people of Vietnan.We can't wait until an election year to see this warend. So we are going to make an end run around the Nixonpolicy of stalling and stalling.We have negotiated a peace treaty. We are going toratify it. Then we are going to make the governmentaccept it.Questione & Anewere on{People's Peace TreatyQ. Is it legal for GI's to sign this treaty?A. Yes. It is the constitutional right of GI's to peti-tion the government for redress of grievances. Thereare no regulations, directives, or any other Armyrules to stop you from signing.Q. Is it leagl for GI's to pass the People's Peace Trea~ty out on post?A. Yes. The People's Peace Treay is in the form of a pe-tition to Congress. Such petitions can be passedaround on post by GI's when they are not on duty.Like in the mess halls, barracks. That doesn't meanthat some lifer isn't going to try and hassle you. Ifone does, come down to Haymarket Sq. (or call us at485-5725) and we'll help you take action against who-ever it is. You do have some rights that even the Armyhas to recognize. But remember, first you have to stamup for them.Q. Who supports the People's Peace Treaty?A. Hundreds of organizations around the country from theMay Day groups to the National Student Association tothe American Friends Service Committee. Student bodiesacross the country have passed the treaty (includingDuke U. and North Carolina State U.). Recently theDetroit city council approved the treaty.Locally the peace treaty has been endorsed by Ser-vicemen and Women United (formerly GI's United) andby Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Over three hun-dred GI's from Ft. Bragg and Pope AFB have alreadysigned.Q. What about the POW's?A. The only way to assure the release of the POW's is toend the war. As long as Nixon refuses to set a datefor withdrawal, the Vietnamese will not consider dis-cussing the POW issue.Q. Where can i get more copies and information?A. Copies of the People's Peace Treaty can be picked upat Haymarket Square Coffeehouse (in downtown Fayette-ville. For more information come to the meeting ofServicemen and Women United at Haymarket every Tuesdaynight at 7:30.1.C. PEELE, M.DsKINSTON, M ©- pageTwo WomenOf South Vietnam(This 1s the second in a series ofarticles about the Indochinese/NorthAmerican Women's Conference held inToronto in April. Three Fayettevillewomen were among the 500 North Amer-icans who met with six women fromIndochina. )Phan Minh Hien said that her vil-lage was very beautiful, with manyflowers and fruit trees. But the USbombers came and destroyed every-thing.Hien'ts feather sacrificed himselfin the first war against the French.Her two uncles and two younger sis-ters were all killed in the war withthe Americans.Eien and her husband are usuallyseparated because of their work inthe liberation struggle. They meetfrom time to time. Once they wereseparated for 4 years, met for onehalf hour, and sevarated again. Herthree children are also separatedfrom her; once she didn't see themfor two years.Although she was once a primaryschool teacher, Phan Minh Hien nowworks for the Women's Union for Lib-eration. "My only hope is that peacewill come to my country, that I canraise my children and they can enterithe University and contribute to thereconstruction of our country."-:Dinh Thi Euong was a housewife in1960 when the Saigon troops burnedall 62 huts in her village, killingher husband and parents. ohe was ar-rested and cetained in & South Viet-namese prisons for 6 years, althoughshe was innocent.The tortures she endured weresupervised by American ~advisorsT,even when the US wasn't publicallyinvolved in the war. Pins andneedles were driven under her fin-gsernails. Electrodes were attachedto her ears, breasts, and genitals.Soap and water were forced into hermouth until her stomach almost burstShe was beaten black and blue whilehancirg from the ceiling naked andshackled. All this was done in-anattempt to make her confess to~crimes! she hadn't even committed.The shackles Huong wore, and thetorture equioment, all bore the mark~Made in the U.S.A.'In Con Son prison 15 to 20 peoplecont. on. pg. 11ya

page 10viCongress Fears Realities Of WarCongressman, Congressman, where areyou? This was the most obvious ques-tion in the House caucus room duringthe four days of war crimes testimony.These hearings extended from April26 to 29 and were organized by RonDellums, Gongressman from Berkeley,California.Those testifying were all vets ofthe Vietnam war. They recaptured mo=ments of terror and barbarismeThey made no attempt to camouflagetheir own personal involvement in theterrorizing and torturing of enemiesand civilians alike.During the third day of hearings,Dellums lashed out at Congress saying"Congressmen will send young men tofight but are too frightened to comeforward and hear them tell about thethings they have done."Later he accused them of "lackingthe courage to come listen. All theydo is run around from the day theyget into office giving politicalspeeches with the sole object of get-ting re-elected. They are unwilling tohave their heads turned around andhear what is going on in Indo-China.?"Body count mania" was one of thethemes of the testimony. According tothe vets this was to be, according toAfter one squad was sent out andfound nothing, Notley's squad was sent.Upon coming to an unarmed ville fourorfive of tue men began shooting at andkilling helpless civilians."Everyone just looked at each otherand nobody said anything. It was~like it was understood, said Notley,who at first was in shock and did notshoot.But when his CO said to him: :"Now's a nice time to try your cannis~ter round," he knew he had better tryto fire. Many of the men were afraidthey would be put in jail or deniedprivileges if they refused to fire.Notley stated that he had firedhis gun and simultaneously pointed itdownward, the bullets skidding in thedirt. In a matter of minutes the en-tire village was wiped out - 13 womenand children."I'd go to jail before I'd everbecome involved in anything like thatagain," Notley said choking back thetears. 3 ~ ZAll the men agreed that the envi-ronment in Southeast Asia is so immor-al, insane and racist that it stripsyou of all moral and ethical values.The dehumanization of the Vietna-nese people is started while ourtthe order of their commanders,their main concern.During one skirmish an Americansoldier was struck with a heart attackThe colonel in command completelydisregarded the man's call for helpand proceeded to shout "body-count,body=count."The most shocking testimony wasgiven by Dan Notley " formerly of theBE. Co. 3/ 11 Infantry Brigade, Amer=ical Division.Notley testified about a massacrewhich took place at Truang Khanh onApril 18, 1969...Free Elections?If Thieu, the darling of theSaigon=US Army diplomatic clique,gets elected again this fall, it willbe because US troops have been used toforce his election.Check it out: Ky is going to runagainst him, which will split theupper-class ARVN officer corps ironcontrol over the politics of the EM.Tran Van "Big" Minh will probably run,seeing the opening that Ky's GeorgeWallace tactics opens up. ARVN gruntswill vote for him, as will largenumbers. of the Vietnamese people. Minhis popular, and is no hardliner againstcoalition government. Coalitionsovernment is not what the. people ofVietnam want or deserve, after 60yearsof fighting one colonialist rip-off government after another. But itis a step away from Theiu-Ky-Khien,and a final break with the Americandomination of Saigon.Thieu, like much of the economicelite that runs Saigon, is the son ofa North Vietnamese landowning family.[They want to go back and get theirs.2 million exiled, rich mainlandShinese crack the wip over 13 millionaative Taiwanese (with American help)with the same thing in mind. Theyion't want to "liberate" the People'sRepublic of China-- they just want tozo back and kick ass with the peasantslike daddy did.The kinship between Thieu and theooys in oAmbassador Bunker's®yrofession is pretty tight... theysome from the same background. Theirtsareers and Thieu's re-election aresoldiers are still in basic. The hara-ssment that GI's go through embittersso much that when they go over toVietnam they take it out on the people_The oppressed minorities of theU.S. go over to Vietnam and vent theirrage on the defenseless Vietnamese,tied up too,and if Thieu can't buyhis election again with ARVN troops,they'll have to substitute AmericantroopseIn their crowd-pleasing "non-combat" role they will go intovillages and perform so-called civicaction functions in the name of theThieu government. They will be alongto give muscle to the white mice eet ae pi iswhen uprooted peasants in refugee @ adr ot ene ecacat ¢camps are herded together to listento a political spiel from one ofThieu's lackeys. They will operateas the governments thought police,as students and patriots such as thosewho signed the Peoples Peace Treaty,are rounded up, imprisoned, and sen-tenced to death.They will be the only shock troopsthat Bunker has at his command to aidin buying Thieu's reelection (if youdon't think the embassy controlsAmerican troops, check the War Roomin the Laotain embassy, staffed by WA C S & 8 IDUS military and CIA creeps). Bunker cont. from pg. 2 = ;will use them. His career and tricky Being labelled "gay". on your dis-Dicks reelection depend on a puppet charge can make life, and getting agovernment in Saigon, and those two job, doubly difficult. :aren't about to let the needs and So, please, WAC sisters, let'sdesires of the Vietnamese people stand not let the army divide us. The armyin their way. Watch the papers and is afraid of our getting together,watch this happen. We are being used for we could be powerful if united.in Vietnam as in the states, to de- We can get together and be strong,termine politics and sustain a busi- despite the CID. Remember, YOU DON'Tnessmans war. HAVE TO TALK TO THE CID. THAT'SYOUR LEGAL RIGHT. IF WE STICKTOGETHER, WE WILL WIN OVER THE CID.Then maybe we -can be close friends,like real sisters, without fear.

page 11VVAW AND ~THE FORGOTTEN GrVietnam Veterans Against the War isstill organizing. We're a mutant.committed to change the shitty situat-ion of those who get out o% the ser-vice (unemployment, no hospital care,nineteenth-century benefits). We workwith our brother who came back fromthe "Nam" but are still in becausethey will face this fuck-up societysoon enough . We are still exploringthe close relationship we have withGIs United in the common cause tokeep America from destroying itselr.We are going to do volunteer workwith disabled vets at the local VAhospital as soon as they decide toapprove our applications.oWe are bringing out the secondissue of the LAST INCURSION, invest-igating dope problems in the "Nam"and out of it, employment for Vets,the American GI's role in buying thereelection of Thieu, official racismin the "Nam" and at home, and lotselesWe want to work with GI's Unitedin convincing our brothers who havealready given away most of theirpower to the System not to give therest of it away to SKAG-- TAKE ITALL BACK.: We want to lay to rest once andfor all the question: do you guysthink you are special because you'vebeen to the "Nam"? Maybe speciallyshit on is all, we are all prisomersof the same system, we've got to betogether to resist and smash it.Womack Army Hospital has run outof money, and patient care is sufferingbecause of it... Army hospitals areallowed so much money each year tobuy drugs, bandages and other suppliesand Womack has already spent its moneyNo one has died yet because ofthis, but Womack medics report thatpatients are not getting the qualityof care they normally do because medi-medicines and supplies are runningout. This applies to all the dispen--saries around post, too, since theyeae their supplies from the hosp-a :The shortages in medicines andmedical supplies mean that certaintreatments must be delayed, sub-i Pa rationed or not used aIn the operating room, for example,linen has been substituted for themore sanitary disposable items used_to create a aterile field around thepatient. Also, doctors and corpsmenhave complained about the lack of theScan tao Ran mere NRENac bEPURGE cont. from pg. 1War in Indochina,Support for COM's stand againstthe War has poured in durring thepast two weeks, and is expected tocontinue. The right of servicemenand women to express themselves hasnow been firmly established, We, asmen and women in the gervice of ourcountry, are morally obligated tovoice our views on,the course thiscountry is presently pursuing.COM encourges any and all inter=ested persons to exercise their rightof freedom of speeches COM meets eachhav ge: Retort at Haymarket Square atseer raise reas tebe? at Op .G.OPERATION AWARENESScont. from pg.. 1as a public relations gimmick, show-showing it off to big shots, braggingabout to the press.At the same however, there hasbeen a continual problem in gettingpersonnel and support, especiallysince General Hay took over at Bragg.The truth seems to be that the armydoesn't really care that much aboutstrung out GIs and WACs.Huge amounts of money are beingspent by the army these days for allkinds of useless and destructivethings, but a worthy attempt at drugrehabilitation is being killed be -cause the brass are not committedenough to support it with adequatepersonnel and money.The reasons a GI or a WAC doesskag or speed are many. The warmachine forces us to live a useless,boring and unnatural life with poorliving conditions, low pay and longseparations from home and family. Andall this for something most GIs don'teven believe in. Its no great wonderthat a lot of people turn to skag.Recent news stories have docu-mented how the CIA and other partsof the American war machine playimportant roles in the smuggling ofheroin and opium out of SoutheastAsia and into the U.S. A lot of thestuff ends up in the Bragg area.In view of all this it looks likethe government is very much to blamefor the hard drug use among GIs.The very least the army can do is tryto have a decent drug rehabilitationprogram. Or do you give a damn, Gen.Hay?WOnACcCcTK BROKE"scrub suits" that are worn in theoperating room for sanitary reasons.Some patients with respiratoryailments (colds) are not able to getimportant anti-histamine medicines.Some minor surgery is delayed be-cause of the unavailability of surg-ical equipment. Unless the hospitalcan get some more money, things willprobably get much worse.As one medic put it, owe are unableto get the medical items used to makea@ patient more comfortable while he isbeing cured."So far things haven't reached acritical stage, but we wonder how badthe army will let things get. Short-ages like this happen in Viet Nan,but it seems inexcusable in a stateside hospital like Womack.The point is that budgets andsmooth administration seem to be moreimportant to the military than themedical care given to servicemen andtheir dependants.two WO MEN cont. fromwere detained in a cell 14 X 2 yards. -Each was allowed a cup of rotten "rice and water a day. Sanitary cond{tions were unspeakable, Once everytwo months they were allowed tobathe in a bucket of water. Lice andskin diseases spread among the pris-oners, and often dead prisoners werenot removed for two or three days.At the end of almost 6 years ofthis kind of treatment, Huong wasalmost totally paralyzed and havingconvulsions. The prison authoritiesreleased her because they thoughtshe was dying anyway.Dinh Thi tuonge is miraculouslystill alive today, but her facestill bears the memory of her tor-tures, and her health will never begood. Whenever we saw Huong she washolding hands with one of the Ameri-can or Canadian women, as if thereWill never be enough touching or hu-man warmth to erase the memory ofthose years.Three years after her release,Huong's 13 year old daurchter was er-rested. She has been arrested 3times since then. and is still.inpe. 9jail; her mother does not knowW where,Euong's sister was killed by Ameri-can shelling while working in a ricefield.Huong had never been politicalbefore she was arrested, but afterher release she joined her people'sfight for freedom by working withthe Women's Union for the Liberationof South Vietnam. She said, "I amjust one of thousands of women whohave suffered so in touth Vietnam.Repression does not stop women, itonly makes more of them join thestruggle." 4editorialboard: the following areGUILTY of exercizing their firstamendment rights: EDCOX612thqmco,terrychisleyhhci60thengrgp, davehettickwomackhosp, jayaalsma612thqmco, thomasrileyhhc160thengregp,dickolson28ca, philfriedrichi2thsupt, markrovickmedco, billthome839thtrans, fredberardii2thsupt,billcarothers824thqmUSAR, joan,DORs eas wise ks bees saan ks aus ound

On May 4th @ Justice Departmentofficial said that standard arrestprocedures were abandoned for theMayday demonstrations when it "becameapparent that the process was takingtoo long." In~two days over 10,000people were arrested on the biggestcollection of bullshit charges thiscountry has ever seen. The object wasto keep people off the streets andthe D.C.cops:,with some assistance,really tried.That's where we came in. Thecops would never have tried thethings they did if they didn't have10,000 troops to back them up.Though the troops were never actu-. ¢ally used directly against the demon-strators to our knowledge; they wereused to line the bridges, sit in themiddle of circles, take demonstra-tors to jail guard the demonstratorsPhotograph demonstrators and providesurveillance and communications forthe pigs. In addition. the knowledgeof their presence in the areas neverleft the demonstrators minds.The government tried to scarepeople with troops. Why else the heltcopter landings at the WashingtonMonument? Why else the troops infront of the Marriott Hotel?Troops were used against theirbrothers and sisters who were in thestreets trying to end the killing anddying in Vietnam and who should appreciate this more than the G.I.? .One good sign was present, no-where could the 82nd be found..Maybethe brass wanted to keep oAmerica'sGuard of Honor" as a shock force orsomething or maybe,just maybe, theyknew how the guys in the divisionfelt and knew that if they used thedivision many of the guys would havejoined the demonstrators. Maybe thebrass has finally come to realizethat people here at Bragg are get- }ting wise to their game and aren'tgoing to take their bullshit anylonger.The D.C. Statehood Party is in-terested in hearing from anyone whowas either victim of, or witness tocases of police brutality or otherbreeches of conduct during the May-day demonstrations. They are alsointerested in outstanding cases ofhassles in the courts following thesedemonstrations. Their address is:D.C. Statehood Party1017 K Street NwWashington, D.C.or telephone: 202-628-2097Thanks for a real good lookOUR PLATFORMRealizing that words, even thoughts concerning the many problems that con-front this nation todav are, frankly, of little importance, GI's United, in an effort to bepart of a national solution to these problemis, lists a platform of priorities that must bemet if the ideals in the minds of men can ever hope to be realized.A unilateral withdrawal of military personnel, arms and war materiel that ac-tively, inactively or inadvertently suppresses the struggle for self-determination of thepeoples of Indochina remains the primarv issue. Without an end to the vain hope of mil-itary triumph, without an end to corporate America forcing its markets of overabun-dance, waste and greed on peoples of other nations, without an end to the much tooreal misuse of Americans by Americans, without the cessation of imperialism, the vast-ly more important question of the survival of the human race cannot be reconciled.U.S. foreign policv that supports cruel and unjust dictatorships only to ensurethe survival of the American economy and the corporate system must cease, and theU.S. must begin to support peoplesT struggles for justice and liberation not only inVietnam but in nations such as Brazil, Argentina and Angola as well. U.S. troops mustbe withdrawn from all foreign countries and an end to the use of GlTs against thestruggles of oppressed peoples must be realized. Indochina is the first step.Then there are the worlds that seem to separate you and me - prejudice andracism: personal, regional and cultural. The glorification of one human being overanother must be overcome not only on the city streets, but in our own backyards.The unethical attitudes of business and government that exploit individuals and insti-tutions must be ended through a more relevant education of the very basic humanvalues of equality, justice and the right to pursue happiness for all people. Closer tohome, in our military world we want to see an end to the harassment of GI's and aguarantee of constitutional rights through a democratic army.Of great importance is an end to the wanton destruction and pollution of theenvironment by indifferent governmental and corporate policies with a re-ordering ofnational, state and city priorities. We must cease to shuffle the responsibility and real-ize that pollution begins at home...also ends. There can be no second thoughts.We must go beyond our own selfish desires, beyond nationalism, beyond revo-lution and seek to bring about an America where barriers to love and deep human rela-tionships - assumptions of superiority - are replaced with the principles of equality andfraternity.WHAT WE ARE AGAINST1. We oppose the U.S. government's attempt to crush the Vietnamese revolution.2. We oppose the economic exploitation of GlTs by Fayetteville merchants.3. We oppose the economic exploitation of GITs by the U.S. government which won'tpay GI's a fair wage, but which endlessly gives gravy contracts to war corporations.4. We oppose the continued use of GI's against struggles of Americans fighting for jus-tice - blacks, women, students, workers, etc.. We oppose the U.S. governmentTs support for the brutal worthless dictatorships inBrazil, Greece, Spain, South Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Guatemala, Iran, etc.WHAT WE ARE FOR. We want Gis to be treated as first class citizens, both by the military and the civi-lian.cammunities.. We want GI's to receive full protection of Constitutional rights...We want a society where barriers to love and deep human ralatinnships-the assump-tions of supgriority between races and between men and women-are replaced withthe principles of equality and fraternity.. We want the United States to begin supporting the truly heroic revolutionary strug-gles for justice in Brazil, Guatemala, South Vietnam, Angola, etc.. We want a country where the needs of people for decent wages and fair prices,clean air and water, and a rational use of resources, overrules the profit instincts ofU.S. corporations.. We want a country where evervone has the same educational, recreational, and occu-pational Opportunites that todav are the privileges of the rich and upper middleclasses.rom your friend and comrad,SP/5 Edwin 6. Cox Jr.To Maj. Bob and the 612th QM a the working Military Mind.MILITARY COUNSELINGAVAILABLE AT Quaker House 485-3213Haymarket Square ses-2702GI Rights egDischargesBRAGG BRIEFSP.O. BOX 457FORT BRAGG, NORTH CAROLINAArticleT lSs 28307CO Applications