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Show Reber's Realities A Nam Balm ively while the other speaks for the last several years. And with that kind of closeness, we could save several million dollars that otherwise other-wise would have to go to buy a panel of impartial observers, who would make sure everything went well. And it wouldn't really matter if one side got an advantage on the other; America would win either way. The only ghastly thing about the proposition, that I can see, is that politically it makes good sense. By ED REBER ' The whole trouble just occurred to me about this Vietnam controversy. contro-versy. The Doves want out and the Hawks want to win with a fervency fer-vency that is obviously based badly. bad-ly. It is apparently premised upon some junior high notion or moral right or wrong in the case. Come now, we are men of politics. poli-tics. Let us use that politic sense of right and wrong and the solution solu-tion is easy. The first rule is to please everyone : we must withdraw quickly and we must win. How? Very simple. Let's send advisers to North Vietnam. Then after a short time, we can send troops. Don't worry about increased casualties, we are very careful not to bomb anybody. And those that fear the additional cost might be surprised. The cost would be largely defrayed by Soviet and Chinese aid, not to mention medical supplies and do- nations from American pacifists. After being thoroughly intrenched in the war effort and carefully creating cre-ating an economic dependence upon us, we could then bring pressure to bear. I'll bet within three months we could bring both sides smiling to the peace table. We could have Dean Rusk represent the North and Robert McNamara represent the South. Can you imagine better rapport at a peace table? They have practiced nodding affirmat- |