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Show ii) BECAUSE OF VOLUME OF MAIL RECEIVED. PARADE REGRETS IT CANNOT ANSWER QUERIES ABOUT THIS COLUMN Ktere WHY RIOTS ructions, George Ball and the light, removed as Defense Secre- and disorders in such prosperous, democratic countries as France, the U.S., West Germany, Japan, tary. hand-lo- ok it he through the normal political process managed to give tongue to the voice of dissent, to give those in petition against the war some pattern. "It say that Sen. Eugene because D'Etat" which Penguin will publish later in the year, claims that it all fits a he political observers McCarthy is held in high world light by thewasacademic who The and others? Edward Luttvak, a young economist who has written a provocative called "The Coup happened in France," feeling of explains, "because be-the hope traditional dialogue hopelessness. Gaulle's power was strong and highly personal, the frustration The Negro by men who feel excommunhave been they icated from any real, truth- middle institutions disintegrated, and De Gaulle could not hear what people were saying. He was not getting any feedback, he kept going because he placed politically associmen forces. in the ful, honest, armed many politi--- meaningful dialogue with the powers that be. Negroes loved the .." In the U.S., instead of riots in the say, are the they cities, result in many cases of tween public and government broke down. Because De ated that when finally saw he was summarily Robert McNamara al scientists attribute late Sen. Robert Kennedy because they felt he was their spokesman, a man who really cared about them and their children. Author Luttvak in his "Coup D'Etat" handbook clares that in most un- PETS III Americans are G inveterate EMI It's difficult to break them of the habit. animal-love- rs. V the revolt of students and Negroes to a similar lack of dialogue between those in power and those in petition. They point out that President Johnson without stable countries, coups are generally started and su- Military authorities in ccessfully engineered by trying to but with tion elements because rightist these elements include the officers small army of pets any Congressional declaraof war has sent more than 500,000 men to Vietnam, these men have been ordered to kill to prevent themselves from being killed for a cause many of them do not understand or with which they disagree. They point out further that for years students and their professors were un- able to penetrate the wall erected around Johnson by such hawks as Walt Rostow, Dean Rusk, Bill Bundy, Maxwell Taylor, Abe Fortas, others, that the only original war dissenter was Undersecretary of State and 4 Army. de- control the In stable, democratic who countries, however, riots can be prevented by the maintenance of dialogue and hope. It is only when people stop talking to each other that they start fighting. ST VQJ.IEfi DRIVERS women in the northeastern states now drive taxis, buses and limousines. Women drivers in general have better safety records than men, according to several insurance companies. South Vietnam, however, are Our do exactly that success. little GIs are collecting a at con- siderable risk to their lives. kittens and dogs of bombed Saigon but also monkeys, parrots, ocelots, hawks, lemurs, and other creatures of the and the jungle. up-coun- try The danger is rabies an acute, infectious, usually fatal disease, readily transmissible to many by the bite of an affected animal. It is caused by a virus which attacks the brain and central nervous system. soldiers were bitten by animals in Vietnam. Most of these GIs were given the painful Pasteur series of injections to counteract the virus and prevent death. Navy and marine physicians report that they gave another 124 of the shots. rabies situation has become so serious that Army veterinarians have anti-rabi- es Not only have they adopted the stray Last year more than 1250 U.S. The begun a campaign warning GIs and South Vietnamese to have their pets all vaccinated free. Not only have the vets taken to the local radio and TV station with spot announcements, but mobile labs equipped with loudspeakers, now tour the Vietnamese villages, imploring the peasants to bring their pets in for free shots. Parade July 14, 1968 |
