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Show The trouble untk television these days Quipsand Qu0tes To a Lady OUR NEIGHBORS at the Movies ' Dear Madam, must you interpret it for me? ; Your incessant dialogue tends lo bore me. I'd prefer what Rex Harrison has to say, And you don't hum tunes as well as Doris Day, I certainly can't share your obvious views That your lines are better than Julie Andrews'! ' To you, dear lady, I plea, implore, entreat Wouldn't you like to change your seat? Zolleen Stanley Bare ...' . 1. Gossip. 2. Spend more than - All in a Point of View BUT WE , . . they earn. mosphere. ' ' t, 4. Permit ours to develop Let their kids run wild. i " Throw noisy parties. .: 6. Trespass on our property 5. 6. 5. Lucille J. Goodyear The little boy needed a minor operation, and his parents sent him to one of the mosfcmoderniospitals Among its many innovations was an intercommunications system by which the floor nurse could talk to her patients in their rooms. But her efforts to reach the little boy one night proved fruitless. "Timmy," shTsaidtFthe intercom after several tries, "I know you're there. Why don't you answer me?"".. After a few seconds a small, quavering voice replied: "What do you want, Wall?" Dorothea Kent ater ' T. Like to share our knowledge 2. Take advantage of our excellent credit rating. 3. Cultivate a relaxed at- ' 3. Don't keep things up. 4; is that the good guys win out on every show except the 11 o'clock news. I nat urally. Entertain friends.. Take short cuts across theirs. "fun-lovi- Frank Rose effort of North Vietnam within a week or two if we choose. .It looks as.il.we.jnay. be.pursuing-- a Jifficult. five- - or plan of warfare if we continue 10-ye- ar with our present method of fighting the Viet Cong (and the forces sent down from North Vietnam) "according"toeirown1erms. AndThafopinion is shared by many of the "crunchies" splashing around in the muck of the paddies, taking daily chances with their lives and health as they fend u off the elusive VC guerrillas. The method by which many of these amateur tacticians think the war could be shut off is by the destruction of Haiphong, the only considerable seaport, of North Vietnam, and the concomitant obliteration of the North Vietnamese capital and brain center, Hanoi. The central factor in this equation was established last Christmas. Gen. William C. Westmoreland, the American military chief in Vietnam, and the North Vietnamese dictator- Ho Chi Minh both issued statements recognizing a truce, and, accordingly, hostilities were shut the Vietnamese go under," says one GI, "we go under" "If - (Continued from page 5) J. . American and Vietnamese Marines hold positions around a tank. - 30-ho- ur - Vietnam) infantry troops. He is tall, lean as a whip, blond, and, according to both the Americans and Vietnamese, "hairy" that is, he's eager and dedicated. Like almost all of the Americans I have seen fighting in Vietnam, he has a wil to win no matter what it takes. I went out on a couple of counterguerrilla operations with Jones. Thanks to his drive, we came upon some VC, captured them, and brought them back to get some valuable information. We hauled one little stinker back in a Huey (flghter- helicopter) ,jand this one had a plan to blow us up with a hand grenade attached to his leg with " a rubber band! A few days later, I went out again with Jones and his Arvin troops on a helicopter operation. There was a fire fight a miserable struggle in the muck, slime, and black water of the paddies. We caught some more Afterward, Tasked Captain Jones how he felt about the war (it already is the longest war in American history). He answered: "You have to feel that it's a personal problem, that if the Vietnamese go under, we go under. " valuable-VC-prisoners- .1 Family Weekly, September 18, 1966 Last year's U.S. escalation, which brought 2,000 more planes and six American infantry divisions (two are Marine) into the war, has increased our casualties drastically. Since 1961, we have lost just short of 20,000 men, killed and wounded. Of these 3,700 have'been killed. That certainly is lot. But consider this fact : in the five years We have been involved in this warr the soldiers, airmen, and sailors of the armed forces of South Vietnam have suffered seven times our number of More than 146,000 of them have been -" killed and wounded, more thaiT32,000 killed!It is still a Vietnamese war. Even now, with 275,000 American fighting men in South Viettimes that .many nam, there are in the armed forces of South Vietnam. It's difficult to estimate the opinion of the average American .(or Vietnamese) servicemarr on the way the warls being conducted. But I have found a growing body of opinion among American troops in Vietnam, and especially among Air Force and Navy personnel, that it lies within our power to shut off the aggressive off on both sides. funj-dame- ntal This demonstrated the.power of the communication lines from the North into the scattered camps of the Viet Cong in the South. It supplied a much needed indication that, no matter how primitive the arteries of control may be, the North Vietnamese apparently have complete command of the VC in South Vietnam. Since this direct communications line has now been uncovered, it seems apparent to many cas-ualti- . center in the North'at Hanoi and chop off the supplies coming into it through the port of Haiphong. One GI in Vietnam expressed it very concisely: "If you're going to go after an octopus, you don't just hit him on the tentacles. You go right after ... his head." . That's the way our GIs in Vietnam think and talk. They may not be diplomats. When you are y fighting a brutal war, you don't feel much in the mood for diplomacy. But fighting and. winning is something our new, tough GIs know plenty about. - rice-padd- . ' - |