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New Prairie Primer, October 15, 1969, Page 15 Vietnam Film List VIETNAM: HOW DID WE GET IN ? HOW CAN WE GET OUT? The history of U.S. involvement -- with David Schoenbrun 33 minutes, sale: $200, rental: $40 VIETNAM DIALOG Schoenbrun focuses on the war in 1968, Paris negotiations, our domestic elections 30 minutes, sale:$200, rental:$40 VICTORY IN VIETNAM? (Land Without Joy) Aftermath of the Tet offensive: official words vs. visual reality. 30 minutes, sale $225, rental: $50 HANOI MARTES 13 A moving salute to the Vietnamese by Cuban film maker Alvarez. Short segment of Spanish narration 40 minutes, sale $225, rental $30 INSIDE NORTH VIETNAM An account of life in North Vietnam during the war-- filmed by Felix Greene 85 minutes., rental $125 17th PARALLEL, VIETNAM IN WAR Day to day survival of Vietnamese peasants-- filmed by Joris Ivens 114 minutes, rental $125 STOLEN CHILDHOOD Childbirth and child care during U.S. bombing of North Vietnam. 10 minutes sale: $70, rental :$15 TIME OF THE LOCUST Vietnam: official words vs. visual reality 12 minutes, rental:$15 Distributed by special arrangement with Brandon Films, Inc. IN THE YEAR OF THE PIG Emile de Antonio's sweeping historical analysis and judgement against U.S. involvement in Vietnam 105 minutes, rental: $open THE SURVIVORS The human damage in South Vietnam 14 minutes color, sale $175, rental:$20 THE DEMONSTRATION 1968 British protest against the war reaches bloody climax in police confrontation 28 minutes, sale:$200, rental: $45 These films may be obtained from American Documentary Films, Inc., a non-profit educational organization, 379 Bay Street, San Francisco, Calif, 94122 (414) 982-7475 NO GENERAL I DONT FEEL THAT GENOCIDE IS BASICALLY INCONSISTANT WITH JUDAO CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY Daily World/LNS PIZZA HOUSE FAST DELIVERY Oven Toasted Submarine Delicious Pizza Old-World Spaghetti 2023 College Cedar Falls, Iowa 268-0448 BOOK REVIEWS AGAINST the CRIME of SILENCE By Karen Keams Against The Crime of Silence, ed. John Duffet. O'Hare Books, Flanders, N.J., 1968 Available from Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y., 10005 Flexicloth $5.75; Hardbound $8.50 " Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get our of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war; neither Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany, That is understood. But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell the, they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." -- Hermann Goering, at the Nuremberg Trials Right on. Every once in a while it becomes necessary to dip 'way down into the shit to flesh those boney abstractions with the inevitable pain, despair and death that they support. Against The Crime of Silence is about that. A report of the proceedings of the Russell International War Crimes Tribunal held in Stockholm and Copenhagen in 1967, it is an encyclopedia of horror that catalogues almost endlessly (654 pages) the barbarities that the United States has committed in Vietnam, The Tribunal officers and members included Bertrand Russell, Jean Paul Sartre, historians Vladimir Dedijer and Issac Deutscher, Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin, Stokely Carmichael, Dave Dellinger, Carl Oglesby, and fourteen other internationally known writers, lawyers, philosophers and scientists, The frightening and sickening testimony heard at Stockholm and Copenhagen flows from the questions the Tribunal posed to themselves and the world: Has the government of the United States committed acts of aggression against Vietnam under the terms of international law? Is the United States Government guilty of genocide against the people of Vietnam? The Tribunal had to answer a unanimous "Yes" to all of these questions. the evidence presented is so massive, so incontrovertible, that it leaves no room for doubt. Provided by surgeons, biochemists, radiologists, doctors, agronomists, lawyers, sociologists, physicists, chemists, writers and experts of Vietnam, it covers in dreadful detail every aspect of the terrible massacre. The editor notes that none of the testimony of either the NLF or the North Vietnamese given at the Tribunal has been printed in the book. "It was necessary -- there was all too much evidence of war crimes available from Western sources. " This volume contains the most complete and accurate compilation of scientific information and documentation of any book written about Vietnam. You will find meticulous lists of suffering, careful charts of death, Daily, monthly, yearly breakdowns of American criminality: 391 schools attacked by the end of December, 1966; 95 hospitals, T.B. stations and maternity homes destroyed between 1965 and the beginning of 1967. Ghastly statistics: the Quynh Lap Leper Sanatorium has been attacked 39 times. Thirty nine times ! Children dead: 250,000; wounded: 750,000. It is very difficult to describe the experience of reading this book. No words can evoke the anger, sorrow and frustration. You must read Against the Crime of Silence yourself. "Operation Cedar Falls" Book Review: "The Village of Ben Suc," by Jonathan Schell. Vintage Books, 1967, $1.65. "Up to a few months ago, Ben Such was a prosperous village of some thirty-fice hundred people,... about thirty miles from the city of Saigon.. exceptionally fertile paddles... extensive orchards... Troops of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) maintained an outpost in Ben Suc from 1955 until late 1964, when it was routed by the National Liberation Front. From that date on, in cooperation with the Front, the villagers joined in active participation both in the government of their own village and in the war effort. During 1965-67, American bombing of the area increased enormously, and a ring of hamlets around Ben Suc were destroyed and hundreds of dispossessed took refuge in Ben Suc. Ben Suc was located at the upper end of what came to be known as the Iron Triangle, where the NLF has successfully resisted subjugation. Finally, on Jan. 8, 1967, the Americans struck. It was called "Operation Cedar Falls." A procession of sixty helicopters landed in the middle of the village.took possession with few casualties on either side. The population was herded together to await evacuation. " Most of the villagers wore clean, unpatched clothing, The children had rosy cheeks and stout limbs. The cows fat and sleek.." To exemplify "the other war" designed to "win the hearts and minds of the people" a mess tent and hospital unit were set up for the villagers. Eventually, after sorting out suspected "VC" as prisoners, the entire population was moved to a village 15 miles down the river, where a U.S. camp was established. Greeted by a huge sign reading: "Welcome to Freedom and Democracy," the villagers were housed in the rudest of shelters and promised "compensation" of $38 U.S. money. ARVN troops were placed in charge of the camp, to give the "refugees from communism" feeling of confidence in "their" government. Meanwhile the Americans effectively burned and bulldozed out of sight every vestige of Ben Suc and surrounding hamlets, and cut several wide swaths through the orchards, ribber trees and jungle of the Iron Triangle with special 60 ton bulldozers. Bored officers and men stationed at the U.S. military compound amused themselves along the "strip" of bars and brothels nearby. However, they had to have their fun before 5 p.m. "In Phu Loi it is unsaf for an American soldier to venture out after dark. " As one reviewer put in: "The Village of Ben Suc" should be required reading at the Pentagon OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW IS FREEDOM Picture taken at Fort Dix, New Jersey
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New Prairie Primer, October 15, 1969, Page 15 Vietnam Film List VIETNAM: HOW DID WE GET IN ? HOW CAN WE GET OUT? The history of U.S. involvement -- with David Schoenbrun 33 minutes, sale: $200, rental: $40 VIETNAM DIALOG Schoenbrun focuses on the war in 1968, Paris negotiations, our domestic elections 30 minutes, sale:$200, rental:$40 VICTORY IN VIETNAM? (Land Without Joy) Aftermath of the Tet offensive: official words vs. visual reality. 30 minutes, sale $225, rental: $50 HANOI MARTES 13 A moving salute to the Vietnamese by Cuban film maker Alvarez. Short segment of Spanish narration 40 minutes, sale $225, rental $30 INSIDE NORTH VIETNAM An account of life in North Vietnam during the war-- filmed by Felix Greene 85 minutes., rental $125 17th PARALLEL, VIETNAM IN WAR Day to day survival of Vietnamese peasants-- filmed by Joris Ivens 114 minutes, rental $125 STOLEN CHILDHOOD Childbirth and child care during U.S. bombing of North Vietnam. 10 minutes sale: $70, rental :$15 TIME OF THE LOCUST Vietnam: official words vs. visual reality 12 minutes, rental:$15 Distributed by special arrangement with Brandon Films, Inc. IN THE YEAR OF THE PIG Emile de Antonio's sweeping historical analysis and judgement against U.S. involvement in Vietnam 105 minutes, rental: $open THE SURVIVORS The human damage in South Vietnam 14 minutes color, sale $175, rental:$20 THE DEMONSTRATION 1968 British protest against the war reaches bloody climax in police confrontation 28 minutes, sale:$200, rental: $45 These films may be obtained from American Documentary Films, Inc., a non-profit educational organization, 379 Bay Street, San Francisco, Calif, 94122 (414) 982-7475 NO GENERAL I DONT FEEL THAT GENOCIDE IS BASICALLY INCONSISTANT WITH JUDAO CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY Daily World/LNS PIZZA HOUSE FAST DELIVERY Oven Toasted Submarine Delicious Pizza Old-World Spaghetti 2023 College Cedar Falls, Iowa 268-0448 BOOK REVIEWS AGAINST the CRIME of SILENCE By Karen Keams Against The Crime of Silence, ed. John Duffet. O'Hare Books, Flanders, N.J., 1968 Available from Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y., 10005 Flexicloth $5.75; Hardbound $8.50 " Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get our of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war; neither Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany, That is understood. But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell the, they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." -- Hermann Goering, at the Nuremberg Trials Right on. Every once in a while it becomes necessary to dip 'way down into the shit to flesh those boney abstractions with the inevitable pain, despair and death that they support. Against The Crime of Silence is about that. A report of the proceedings of the Russell International War Crimes Tribunal held in Stockholm and Copenhagen in 1967, it is an encyclopedia of horror that catalogues almost endlessly (654 pages) the barbarities that the United States has committed in Vietnam, The Tribunal officers and members included Bertrand Russell, Jean Paul Sartre, historians Vladimir Dedijer and Issac Deutscher, Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin, Stokely Carmichael, Dave Dellinger, Carl Oglesby, and fourteen other internationally known writers, lawyers, philosophers and scientists, The frightening and sickening testimony heard at Stockholm and Copenhagen flows from the questions the Tribunal posed to themselves and the world: Has the government of the United States committed acts of aggression against Vietnam under the terms of international law? Is the United States Government guilty of genocide against the people of Vietnam? The Tribunal had to answer a unanimous "Yes" to all of these questions. the evidence presented is so massive, so incontrovertible, that it leaves no room for doubt. Provided by surgeons, biochemists, radiologists, doctors, agronomists, lawyers, sociologists, physicists, chemists, writers and experts of Vietnam, it covers in dreadful detail every aspect of the terrible massacre. The editor notes that none of the testimony of either the NLF or the North Vietnamese given at the Tribunal has been printed in the book. "It was necessary -- there was all too much evidence of war crimes available from Western sources. " This volume contains the most complete and accurate compilation of scientific information and documentation of any book written about Vietnam. You will find meticulous lists of suffering, careful charts of death, Daily, monthly, yearly breakdowns of American criminality: 391 schools attacked by the end of December, 1966; 95 hospitals, T.B. stations and maternity homes destroyed between 1965 and the beginning of 1967. Ghastly statistics: the Quynh Lap Leper Sanatorium has been attacked 39 times. Thirty nine times ! Children dead: 250,000; wounded: 750,000. It is very difficult to describe the experience of reading this book. No words can evoke the anger, sorrow and frustration. You must read Against the Crime of Silence yourself. "Operation Cedar Falls" Book Review: "The Village of Ben Suc," by Jonathan Schell. Vintage Books, 1967, $1.65. "Up to a few months ago, Ben Such was a prosperous village of some thirty-fice hundred people,... about thirty miles from the city of Saigon.. exceptionally fertile paddles... extensive orchards... Troops of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) maintained an outpost in Ben Suc from 1955 until late 1964, when it was routed by the National Liberation Front. From that date on, in cooperation with the Front, the villagers joined in active participation both in the government of their own village and in the war effort. During 1965-67, American bombing of the area increased enormously, and a ring of hamlets around Ben Suc were destroyed and hundreds of dispossessed took refuge in Ben Suc. Ben Suc was located at the upper end of what came to be known as the Iron Triangle, where the NLF has successfully resisted subjugation. Finally, on Jan. 8, 1967, the Americans struck. It was called "Operation Cedar Falls." A procession of sixty helicopters landed in the middle of the village.took possession with few casualties on either side. The population was herded together to await evacuation. " Most of the villagers wore clean, unpatched clothing, The children had rosy cheeks and stout limbs. The cows fat and sleek.." To exemplify "the other war" designed to "win the hearts and minds of the people" a mess tent and hospital unit were set up for the villagers. Eventually, after sorting out suspected "VC" as prisoners, the entire population was moved to a village 15 miles down the river, where a U.S. camp was established. Greeted by a huge sign reading: "Welcome to Freedom and Democracy," the villagers were housed in the rudest of shelters and promised "compensation" of $38 U.S. money. ARVN troops were placed in charge of the camp, to give the "refugees from communism" feeling of confidence in "their" government. Meanwhile the Americans effectively burned and bulldozed out of sight every vestige of Ben Suc and surrounding hamlets, and cut several wide swaths through the orchards, ribber trees and jungle of the Iron Triangle with special 60 ton bulldozers. Bored officers and men stationed at the U.S. military compound amused themselves along the "strip" of bars and brothels nearby. However, they had to have their fun before 5 p.m. "In Phu Loi it is unsaf for an American soldier to venture out after dark. " As one reviewer put in: "The Village of Ben Suc" should be required reading at the Pentagon OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW IS FREEDOM Picture taken at Fort Dix, New Jersey
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