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Show Napalm a dog A week ago the Chronicle reprinted an editorial from the "New Yorker" magazine concerning the American war machine in Vietnam it discussed the callous way in which we Americans have acquiesced in tne making of all Indochina into a giant free-fire zone. We invited readers to respond- so far one letter has come. That lone writer said that bombing really isn't all that bad, and anyway those sneaky Vietnamese deserve every bit of it. .. . On Tuesday we printed an anonymous message threatening an aogs on campus with poison if their owners didn't start leashing them. The response was large, with five letters and several phone calls taken so far, all begging the poisoner to refrain. While dog-poisoning is certainly cruel and reprehensible, the list ot priorities suggested by this response seems odd. Hundreds of thousands of people -human beings of blood and beliefs -have been and are being pointlessly massacred in Indochina, and nobody even blinks. Babies get napalmed, mothers get "caught in a crossfire," and we don't care. But threaten-mind you, just threaten-to poison dogs (not people, but dogs) and the campus is outraged. Perhaps it is easier to become upset over smaller matters. After all, block seating occasions more outrage than any other single campus issue. But people in Vietnam still get killed. |