I { I 't¡ o st R qt \ F ', .g c Ê 5. r¡. 91 €a)o ö \ ìi .È -Ë {'¡ r+- .o I t,' _ "l a g-> xi3** o'-: c L'- l¡ õ c.Ëã 5 åä z=Lrd I |,D I EM t I i-l-:I ¡ I ñ- t ¡ F s ¿ o ¿ Iq rri t-üÐ -l # EN r= il Ð \ , t a I' ü \ ........æ'- f)/ I I 'rà I ll Ii -t t \ Ë I i .1 #æ è o a l{t trtrj -l sL ?t¡¡ o Èrr I ì o h þ * T t å^l= 5.Ë ê nr fl t Ê o.:'=.- Ëo9>.* çÞ# L LË F rt [r ffi \J Þ 5n 4\ tU q \ a ì Í ì t¡.¡ a ñ I I I I q . t. The Læft has pretty much shunned their defense, some sectors of the left branding thom as "Ultra-Iæftists" or possible Police Provacateurs, and "moral witness" paciflsts, of those corporations who influence US,foreign policy in Southern Africa. t Finally, an economic boycott of Gulf products is a practical action for 'little" pçople who want to effect freedom in Angola People can avoid Gulf products and institutions and stop contracting with Gulf. Gulf knoùs this; witness its 1970 threat to sue' thêrunitéd Church of Christ for urging a boycott, rilhen a corpôf¿tion fails to respond to etliical pressure, then we must hit them wheíe they feel it-in the pocket book! The Gulf Boycott Coalüion believes an intema- don't want to even hear about such, terrible things ai Urban Guerilla actions. In conclusior¡ leave Hoffman's defense ' and money raising to the "cock-¡òck" stars who often put thousands of dollars up their noses ¿nd in;their veiûs a month. ¡ Thére are just a few other p¡io¡ities, suçh. as the Attica, Wounded Knee, and "Black Liberation Army" defense funds, Those people, despite whatever political and/or tactical faults they may or may not have, a¡e ¡evolutionaries working for a society where smack, coke, and whiskey aré just bad memories of a decadent, opp?essing society. ' course tional boycott of Gulf can work-the initial responsé world-wide has been t¡emendous Until Gulf stops assisting the Portuguese dic' tatçrship by huge annual paymentg a bo¡ cott can be efrective in pressing Gulf to take ac!þn to enable Angolans to become inde'. STANWOODS Denver, Colo. WHAT CAN GULF DO? They have statesmanship they can certainly cary out effectively. In adäition to 1) presrure on in Southe¡n Africa: Nixon's èmbracing of Portugal leading to possitle f) with{rawal minority white regimeq; British and US 3) Gulf could recognizethe Angolan.liboraencouragement of Rhodesian white rule; US tion movements and pay them taxes, 4) Gulf foreign aid to maintain the Portuguese econcould supþort the United Nations policy re omy allowing thém to fight an expensive garding Angola, 5) Gulf could influence'üS which war; and a Uqited Nations can do policy for freedom in Angola for a change, little more than issue pronouncements. We and 6) Gulf, under contract with Portuguese, who live in the industrialized world must con- pould "save" the oil at Cabinda until such sider now tactics to do our part to help liblime as the Angolans gain their independence, erate Southern Africa. , r " The Gulf Boycott Coalition* stands The best strategy ftir breakthrough in We must recognize recent dismal happenings ready to assist a{ individuals and grqups tg boycott Gulf whère they are. Hit thêrñ/ ' where it -PAT ROACH, CHR. . not the same as dealing smack." You're right, Not quite, But damn close' bocaine is The CIA's "Air America" opium runs in, Indochina don't have coke in their cargoes' wasted, even at the risk of being caged or but that's only because of cocaino's geograph- possibly losing his life, (either by O.D.ing or à trigger happy nalk or prison hack.) ical location. But theil Mafosi comrades in I deeply hope that Hoffman and his as' Miami take ca¡e of the cocaine distribution sociates, (not to mention thousandÒ 9f drug in the U.S. just fine' The nitty gritty of my letter is this, many users aiA-petty dealers in New York) aren't caged under Rocky's new revised drug non-white activists are tlying to eliminate "Lynch'em" laws. oacifying poison from their communities, But if they are guilty they have commitwhether it be smack and coke in New York, eà a criminal act in the real sense of the word or bootleg whiskey at Pine Ridge Resewa' and Abbie's friends should deal with that tion in South Dakota. Many revolutionaries fact. were at one particularly Blacks and fatinos, One more comment concerning a trial time strung out o¡ close to it. Birt various comins up that has no defense committee factors including gradually acquiring a reve of ¿'"o-unier culture" or left notables to de' lutionary socialist consçiousness changed fend them, Joanne Chesmind, Herman Bell, that, Richard Moore, Alfred and Anthony Caine' Hoffman, according to your appeal has Andrew Jackson and Frankie Washington. a "longand enviable" movement ¡ecord. So Black revoluìionaries who are alleged'to are him between difference huge a there isn't of an alleged Black Liberation be members to mainenough kid dealing and a strung:out Armv and who are accused of killing cops in tain his own habit and having only enough confiontation in Ney York City' Their trials political consciousness to realize he's living in a stoned miserable society and to him it seems tire only way to deal with it it to stay are coming up this fall. They are all facing life sentenies, or possibly even execution. Anti-Gay Violônc,e, the. i. PreCs andPacifism. .......6 : Allen Young t Telling lt'Like lt Wasn't:' Vietnam History irl the Schools. . . . .8 Bill Griffen Gulf Boycott Coalition Box 123, D.V, Station Dayton, OH 45406 10: Reviews. ..... .. . :, .. .... ,.."12 Those. Fabulous Éurry Freak Brothers 14 Gilbert Shelto-n. Cover: East Side by"JVlarky Sulwinkle I I WHAT'S,THE ALTERNATIVE? The number-of alternative enterprises and arrangements that people are into nowadays is quite,impréssive. We've all heard about food co-ops, underground newspapers and alternative schook but there are also alternative garages, construc' tion co-operatives and some commun¡ties are eveiì experimenting w¡th completely f.NO_TÇ¡ Membois qf th€ advtsory board of he G u f B oycott Coà tt on i nct ud-o -R-o;.- R;n oollums, John Kenn€th Galoralit¡ añà-Ãrjâiå' t , I I I Lowenstein. 'i=--.- - 'ì :' .: thing of this s'ort or know about such pro: do, why not write to WlN. iects? lf you '!Ve can't afford to pay'fot'a.rtiâbout it. cles but our readers are vitally-coirceriréd with theie problems and can benefil fro¡n reading about your experiences. :l ,' STAFF ,.,.i rnår¡s ctkars, €ditor susðn ca¡e13,. statf marty ¡€z€r, oditorlal ass¡stent nancy ¡ohnson, stafl sponsible business activity. ' i 'When Doos the 51st Day Côme. . . . .'. . .4 G'' alternative economies. Are you into any started a $15Ó millio¡i oil operation there7 57o of iotal US investments in Angola. The, United Nations called this action an exploi- : tation ofhuman and material resources, harmful to the programs of Angolans towatd free dom and independence. The people ofany land have an inalienable right to independence, lile believe Gulf is guilty of unethical, ir¡e- - LCTTERS In the September 13 issue of 'IVIN you had an appeal from seve¡al staff membe¡s from WIN and others to raise bail money for a certain Mr, Hoffman and three associates who recently (allegedly) had a $30,000 co' cain deal terminated by some N.Y'P'D. Narks (Who must have not been paid ofi unlike many of their collegues). In case you've forgotten, junk has broqght the world an Opium war, barbaric lawsggainst grass, millions of addicts throughout the years, some of them truly fine citizens of their respectîve communities and thus quite able to finance their habits' (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Hetman Goering being among the most notable) but many more are dirt poor who have had to rip off, stick up,jack up, pimp their lovers (and them' selves) and various other devices just to keep their body and soul (temporarily) together. You might counter with "Well, dealing' CORPORATION BOYCOTT. . WHY GIILF? The¡e are ethicai,þoliticat, educational,-dntl practicàl reasons, Five yeats afte¡ the Angolan revolution began, Gulf hurts! ',¿ Vol. tX, Number 30 '..,j.. Changes. mànl options which with their years of the five major white minority ruled nations (South Africp, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Angola) is to pirt our resoutces where the "enemy" is most vulnèrablè. \ile believe the action most able to d¡ive a wedge for change in Southern Africa is a GULF OIL :7 Oct.11,1973 ' pendent, , . ME Tqa¡sierits Gulf paid Portugal $61 million in L912 and will pay $10 million moie each year for the next several years. This enables Portugal . to fînance 150,000 troops fighting to maintain its colonies. Gulf, ifpressed, can be influential in convincing Portugal to change. In addition, Gulfs controlling stockholder, the Mellon family, gave $1 million of President Nixon's sec¡et $10 million fund! Gulf if pressed, could be influential in changing , . Mr. Nixon's policies toward Portuguese colonialism. Politically there are good reasons to boycott Gulf. iulle maås, dolign måry mayo. SubscrlPtlons brian w€stor, comporit¡on i Oàk and hickory crowns carry . ' The Gulfboycött is also an excellent way to educate the Western world to ter¡i: bly uniust conditions in Southern Africa. . :, Distribution ofhundreds of thousands of leaflots, etc. can make Americans awa¡e of the inter-relationship of Gulf and other Amer ican conglomerates with these white minority regimes. Knowing the issues, Americans can take political and economic action against ^ Us through shâdes of the.tpnth This hot yellow c4nóþy. ; Baking acorn and beggeri lice Will thin and leaf mold the soil For Spring. ,, :But'chemicals - From.the warm fall sky Laced with contraiÍi. Bring what succor For vagrant life? rh FELLOT,V TRAVEI-ERS tå)¡æ b¡r;l¡r" + tynñe dtana dàvtes paut enc'lmer + chu.ck ruth dear + ralph dlgla +"orrnt* fagôr + scth foldy + Jlm forest + Íi¡k€ franlch lerh frltz + larry gar.a + nell haworth +..ÞScky lohnson + par¡l Johns'on + alllson karp€l ¡_qrâlg karpel + clndy kent + p€tôr klgor + al€x knopp john kyper + dorothy lane + roþln martha thomases box 547 r¡fton ncwyork 12471 tclophone 914 339.45ts Nls by in N of the Wâl Michael Corr lårsên elllot linzsr + jackson maclow , +. davld mcreynolds + gene m€êhan + mark mof rls + lóâl rood€nko + wendy schwartz + mlko stamm åt pef year. e16 ôxpressod rêssed ln tho cannot ba a solf-adln U.S.¡t. : ANTI -CAY VIOLENCE, THE PRESS and got lnto a vehicle w¡th the sìx men. After driving around sectìons of Forest Hitts ond Jomoica Ploin, Tuscher said the vehicle stopped neor o rear entronce of the Arnold Arboretum ot South and Bussey streets, Police said the e¡ght men got out of the cor and conyersed until someone yelled: ,,Now!" Lynch and Tuscher were repeotedly struck with "clubs, knives ond other weapons," according to police, and "severol sticks covered with blood"-were loter dlscovered ot the scene. Tuscher told pot¡ce thot 'both men were olso robbed of cosh, woileti, jewelry AND PACIFISM ond watches. Pollce quoted Tuscher as saying the six men drogged Lynch and him to a sewer main at the edge of the a A rn old A rboret u m grounds, Lynch reportedly was dropped frrst through the 27-inch openìng lnto the deepest Nrt of the sewer' with Tuscher thrown on top of him, Police said the cover of the main wos reploced ond the six assoilanis droveowoy, : , Tuscher told police he woited until he knew his os- sllonts a a help. He wos even- -¡ D.et, Sgt. Arnold White of Station l3 are conductìng the investigation of the attock. Robbery hasbeen described as the motive. Ê After I'd finished only the first paragraph of the pre-, lr- , Marky Bulwlnkle A Bostgn Report by Allen Young The following appeared on page 5 of the Boston Globe on Saturday, luly'' 4:. Mon killed, 'l hurt in Arboretum ossault By Thomos Dotton, GlobeStaff One møn was killed and onother seriously injured early yesterdoy mornlng when they allegedly were lured from o downtown Boston bor to a nonexistent prty, robbed and beoten by sìx assøilonts and thrown lnto o sewer at the edge of the Arnold Arboretum. Police identifìed the deod man as Jeremioh Lynch, 21 , of Barrison street, Boston, ond his injured companion os 22-yeor-old Stephen Tuscher, of Oak street, llayland, who wos odmitted to Foulkner Hospitol, Jornaico Plain, for "multiple contusions" and was listed last night in fair condition. Medicol examiner George Curtis said Lynch had inhaled a mixture of mud ond water and suffocoted after being thrown unconscious into o sewer, According to police, Lynch and Tuscher had met casuolly near closing time in a Bay Villoge bar ond were invited to o porty by six fellow potrons. Tuscher told detectives thot, lured by promises of "booze, some pot and a lot of fun," he and Lynch left the bar 6 WIN had gone before calling for tuolly heørd by qn unidentifred possing motor¡st. DeL Sgt: John Doley of the homicide division ond ced'ing article, I knew that Jeremiah Lynch and Stephen Tuscher were victims of faggot haters. By the iime I was finished with the article, I guessed that the bar referred to was The Other Side-Boston's most famous gay dancing bar-and I pretty much could imagine the whole situation. My emotional response was complex. One element was fear, but I'm almost immune to fear. Cruising can be a dangerous business, and while unlike somepeople, I am not turned on to the danger, I am alvgays aware of it. W¡ll I give up cruising because of fts põtential danger? Probably not. (Perhaps I shogld give it up for other reasons-because it has so little to ão with the iense of cominunity which we want to build.) Another element of my response to the Lynch-Tusche'r story was sadness, on many levels, for dead Jeremiah and hospitalized Stephen. And there was curiosity about how their families were dealing with the situation. (Had the cops told them their óns were faggots? Maybe they had known previously, maybe not). But my strongest emotional response was anger, directed at the Boston Globe for not telling its readers the true story of what happened to .f eremiah Lynch and Stephen Tuscher, for neatly excising homosexual oppression out of the story. I remembered the class I took in libel law at the Columbia Journalism School; it's libelous to say that someone is a homosexual, and even ifthe person is dead, his or her descendants can sue and collect! ls that why the Boston Gtobe hid the facts, I wondeied. Well, it turns out that Thomas Dotton, the'Gtobe reporter, is a black gay brother, and of course he knew the gay aspects of the story, but the police told him gqy facts "off the record," and besides, the Globe Ll-," "is a faniily newspaper." So the story appêared in its truncated fo¡m, which, Dotton says, "was unaccepta- ble to me and still is." . I sympathized with Dotûon having to put up with his editors' dishonesty-on what is supposedly one of not going to protect us faggots' (Protect us so we can commit felonies in the municipal bushes?) But I would be the last one to preach about the need for self-defense. On this, I féel I am a very typica! fagggt.. I have neither the sk¡ll nor the w¡lltofight. I have al' - . most no experience fighting. I have ma4agqd tg avoid 1' every opportunity I hãve had qo fight; and th,at includes .everything from childhood squabbles to recent gay classes in karate held during thê prime of New York Gay Liberation Front. tn the hey-day of Studehts für a Democratic Society (SDS), wnón ttre slogan was ,Î' "pick up the gun," I bòught a .22 rifle, wh¡ch I itill own, but I have no idea what I would use it for. Two t faggot friends I know bought rifles under similar circuiristances, and they too nò longer have any upe for their firearms. (Dld we ever really have any use for them, other thah to i.mpress upon ourselves and others .how tough we were?) ln theory, I believe in self'defense, inc[udihgãrmed self-defense, but I feel incapable of it. I abhor violence, and it also frightens me. I would like to stop it. There is; of course, v¡olence running through thp 8ay cqmmi¡nity, and some gay people seem to get off on it' That gôes for the fãscistic neo'Nazi 5eçtor of the leath' el crowd as well as for the effeminists gleefully"predicting a sex war. But I think such peo¡ile are a minority. lt-is no coinciderrce that gay people have alwayq had a leading role in the pacifist movement (David McReynolds] Bayard Ruitin, Allen Ginsberg, eti.).ln practice, i suppose I am a pacifist, though I doubt rhe nation's most liberal dailies-and beyonüthat I of h-ow right I øt ftãópy with this new affirmationpress five years ago' *ãi to'ttãv" quit the establishment ."-i aimost såt down to write á letter to the editor of ' journalthe' Ctobe to complain about their dishonest í.ã. urt I decided instead to direct my energy into an irticle tor the Advocate, The editors of the,$duoëate' iåiiow¡ng st¿ndard journalistic procedures, would want pro;;tai; fãcts for their article, and l, as'a "trained them' journalist," knew how obtain to iessional '--l foun'¿ out that Stephen Tuscher was still in only balked "fa;r;'-;ondition and could receive no visitors. I i¿.u of talking to his family; what would I ask I called the policeofficeis mentioned þ the but theY weie not in. article, Globe j¡volved I called Charley Shively, a friend of mine "iì'ú" iñ"rl w¡t'h il;;;i's Foi Rag, whose lover happens'tb be a ú"i1"ñJãt at The-othei Side. Charlevfonfirmed all of ru intuit¡ons. ln fact, the police had-atreadV þeen to i'tte Ottrer Side askirig questions. Charley said that he ü;"1;;Ï.;ã il'tàt lJt.t¡ah Lvnch's familv had re' :l fused to take his bofly, though this could noJ be confirmed. and later it was learned that his family did indeed táke care of the burial. (The gay-vine reflects our cruel realitY.) By the time the next day dawned, I felt I could no lonsór proceed with this rout¡ne reporting project. Wáil ¡ltt being lazy? I felt uncomfortabþ with the standard iournalism expected of me by the Advocote' What did the specifi"ò details matter anyway? Could i iilrotttt'tinþ helpful lo ii i*ori¿ í.ra:ln'pæ¡f¡it¡c ¡f I were persoñallv about this incident thát wôulil be uuíidity of the doctrine of pacifism (as in "love thy enemy" and "turn the other cheek"). (Readers can make'their own puns as far as the "other cheek" epi' i tUVung.t at Dotton'särticle subsided after tålking with íì¡m.- He said he was willing to let me'älçntify him as "gay" in the pages of the Advocare (though he 'told me ñe'doesn't titJttre Advocate)' He told me that he was a founder of the Student Homóþhile League at Columbia University in 1966, but has not beeñ involved in the'gay movement recently. As a result of the Arboretum incident-plus.a new wave of ' assaults on gay people in Boston cruising spots-Dotton has receivèd the OK from his editors to work on lio'- in anti¡gaY a long piece 'ln discussing the escalation lencel addition, he decided tb attend a rneeting of the Gay Media Watch, a new Boston gay community group ipecializing in monitoring and ccirrgcting media coverage. The obvious response to all this violence, as gay community leaderi have already stated, is organized . self-defensô, and some Bostonians are attempting such a group. Who could disagree? We are vulnerable, and thã poiice, who hardly proteot ordinary citizens, are assault'' ed, and I am not convinced of the effectiveness or the other gaY PeoPJe? decided to cãll Thonìas Dotton to tell him how I felt about his article, but also to iarner some mdre information. Dotton told me that the police were less than vigorous in their investigation. He ¡i{ that one ''' ' of the 6artenders at The Oîhèr5ide could definitely identify at lèast one of the assailants, yet the police . seemed uninterested. "Queer entanglemênts," one ofthe cops said to DÒtton and other reporters, as if to dismiss the murder. Later, t got through to Det. Sgt. W'Éite, who informed me ttrat two arrests had been made and more were expected. He said that,routine investigation had led to the arrests, and he assured me, when I asked him whether policê were less than vigorous in solving the murder of a queer, that the police would;go "as far as possible" in finding the culprits: r' r ' " . gram is concerned.) ' 'l do think we need to find a way to take destruct¡ut po*äi-óut of the hands of those who are us.ing itwheiher it is Richard Nixon or the people who killed Jeremiah Lynch. But t am very confused. I do not í.now fot córtuin how to take ihis power away. Pèi] haps we are accomplishing this over the long run,-by a erádual process, as people learn to overcome the fears 'lhat drive them to violence. Perhaps violence won't end until there is an end to the,domination of women by men, until there's an end to the domination .; 'i '' r ' , : :i '...1' of the poor by the rich. Perhaps it is true that as each of us stïives ágainst the destructive values of our soci' " ety-competitìon, greed, racism, sex¡sm-we are ef' fectively coñbatf!ngthis destructive violence. Footnstes to all bf this: ' a. , 1 .) in the Boston | I "Siephen'Tilddter,;in¡ârt,intgrview Phaent*,.aserts he'is not gay, but "AC/DC," and he' '' said he áesperately wants shock treatments to help him erase the memory of that awful night. 2.) The two men arrested in the case were released on th'eir own recognizance, that is, with no cash bond re' : quired. 3.) Thomas Dotton's proposed long article on gay . people as victims of violence was scuttled by the : .Boston Globe, ' 4.) lfinallYsold mY.22rifle.' ' i Allen Young is o groduote of the Columbia school of journolism ãnd a former reporter for varlous stolght 'newspapers. More recently he has worked with Liberqt¡on News Seruice, wlN 7 ,, at best, a war to preserve South Vietnam's lifreedom I Ii ¡ I 'l \ "=1 Telling ¡t like itwasn't: vietnam history in the sc hools BY BILL GRIFFEN After every war in which America haó:fôught, schools have been used to interpret that war to the next genera- tions. The interpretation has always been character- ized by (1 ) stressing the necessity of our involvement, and (2) defending the correctness and morality of America's role and conduct in the war. The blindness of self-righteous nationalism has always subst¡tuted for objective, honest analysis of American policy. This should not be allowed to happen with the Metnam War. As we are urged to accept America's role in Vietnam as, at worst, a mistake-a policy misjudgment. or. I WtN ' and democracy"; every effort should be made to accurately and honestly describe the Vietnam decadefrom our picking up the bloody sword of the departing French imperialists to the'1972-7 3 barbaric civiþ ' ian bombings cynically described as having achieyed "peace with honor." Consider the pathetic irony of all those peace-movement leafletters, sign carríers, letter writers, pet¡t¡on signers, speech-makers, demonstration-goers, article writers, and teach-inners having their child.ren read in school textbooks that "their country came to the defense of democratic South Vietnam." The State Department-Pentagon version of aggression from the North will wash only if wè realize Washington, D.C. is in fact north of Saigon. But a generation of school children are about to get the State Department-Pentagon version of "history. " As early as 1966, the.Defense and State Depart: ments were putting out lnstant history on the Vletnam * War to millions of school children. They produced sixteen hundred copies of lUhy Wetnom,,a film the noted American historian, Henry Steele Commanger, described as ". . . . it is not history. lt is not even journalism. lt is propaganda, naked and unashanied." ln a Soturdoy Review article of April 1 5,1967 , Coì,mmanger wrote, "Let us look briefly at th¡s film, for it is doubtless a kind of dry run of what we will get increasingly in the future." Conímanger's preview look is frighæning as dejo vuwe've seen this Cold War çascade before, applied almost universally to different historical situations. Here is the Munich appeasement analogy, the dividing at the 17th parallel into two countries-free and com- munistic, communist terror¡sm, communist aggression for world domination, America fullilling solemn pledges in the free world, etc. The government f¡lm is described by Commanger: ". . . . now the scene shifts to Vietnam. ln 1954, says our nariator, 'the long war is over, and the Communists are movir¡g in.' It is a statement whích has only the most fôrtulióus relation to reality. The long war was indeed over-the war between the Vietnamese and the French. But to label the Vietnamese who fought against the French "Communists" and to assume that somehow they 'moved in' (they were already there) is a distortion of history. Yet there is worse to come. For next ther camera is turned on to the Geneva Conference. . . ." Even five years before Watergate, Professor Commanger could say, "What is needed is a Truth in Packaging Act for the United States Government." He elaborated by observing "The dissemination of Why VÌetnom in high schools and colleges is no isolated episode in the manipulation of public opinion by government, but ¡iart of a larger pattern. We must view it in connection with the publication program of the USIA, the clandestine activities of the ClA, and the vendetta of the Passport Office against travel to unpopular countries, or by.unpopular people, as part of an almost instinctive.attempt (we cannot call it anything so formal as a program) to control American thinking about foreign relations. We had supposed, in our innocence, that this sort ofthing was the special preogative of totalitarian governments, but it is clear we were mistaken." Add to the publication program of the USIA and the Defense and State Departments the self-serving publication programs of the merged corporate business and textbook industries and the direction of the For most Americans and for almost all of the young, the Pentagon Papers are still unread and still a secret. There can be no rationale for schools not making ex' tensive use of the primary source materials of ,the Pentagon Papers and Congressional hearings in order to understand the difference between what we were .. told and what was actually happening. .The Pentagon Papers and the discovered lies of the military-admin. istration partnership spilling opt gf Congressional Committee investigations should be the history school ' children will rõad-nor rhe legend of the Greèn Bèiâq. , qeneration's "history" lessons become clear. Pàrents, ieachers, and students not tolerating textsrtating 2+ 2= 5 or that the earth is the center ofthe solar system, should not be forced for political national chauvinistic reasons to tolerate texts and materials ' , stating that: * ., hod no interest in Vietna¡n other thùn ossuring South Vietnam's self-determlnotion, o the U.S, octed to counter communist oggrgsslon ln from the north *Vletnom the North Vletnomese would not permit.free electionsos prescribed by the 1954 GeneVo Accords * the U,S. has always been wìlltng to negotiate, while the North Vietnomese hg.ve not. .r The IJ-,S. -'; A reading of some popular high school texts com- ' ',:. ' I of present school offerings- 2. Develop and collect biblography lists concentrat. ing on primary sources such ãs ihe'Pent4gon Pâpers, transcripts of Congressional hearings, Vietnam Veteran testimonies, etc. Check if your school has the Alter' native Press lndex, published quarterly 4nd. indç¡ing õver 1'30 t¡nderground and alternative magazines¿nd 1 I I ese. The following are sources for these materials. Get on tþeir r¡ailing list for newsletters and biblie gaphies: :'' ' ' INC'OCHINA RESOURCE CENTER North Vietnam definitely agreed to direct peace discussion. LBJ responded with'December 13 and 14 bombing raids near Hanoi. North Vietnam withdrew its agreement. (Robert K. Estabrook,The lloshington popular, nationalist.patriots while the dictatorial Sa¡gon military/rich landowner clique is our "ally"; violations of international law; deliberate deception of Congress and the American public and the circumventing of Constitutional guarantees by the government sworn to uphold them- Assess the adequacy newspapers (Alternative Press Cenler, BAG Service 2500, Postallgtation "E", Tgront-q 4, Ontariq'Canada) 3. lntroduce into your school tapes, slide shows, pictures and exhibits, films and resource speakers availa' ble irn the Vietnam War and its affect on the Vietnam- bomb the North. (Phillips Devilhers, University ôf Paris, December 5, 1966) (3) ln December of 1966, Papers public, the "secret history of the Vietnam War" was no longer secret. History teachers and other educators must not be allowed to "re-classify" the Pentagon Papers by keeping them out of the curriculum thus makiþg them "secret" again. The Pentagon Papers tell thê ttue history of the war: America as aggressor;. U.S. leaders trying to convince the public that the'"er¡emy" is the should immedately: 1. decade. .. with an American emissary in Rangoon, B[irma. Refused. (Eric Sevareid, Look November 3O,1965) (2) A North Vietnamese peace-feeler dellvered through France in February'1964. American response was to ing out of "war powers." One can readily predict the reaction of those who will want to remember Vietnam through the misty eyes of John Wayne, Bob Hope, or BillyGraham, qith the stars and stripes still flying over lndochina's shores. But their self-serving remembrances will l¡ave to be shattered, not shared. lt isn't a question of..our propaganda versus their propaganda, because the case for :i what really happened in Vietnam can be inade by presenting the warmakers in their own words. When Tony Russo and Daniel Ellsberg made the Pentagon -, ers texts, curriculum, library holdings on the Vietnam Vietnam rejected Íhese peace overtures." Such "history" carelessly (or carefully) ignores: (1 ) A 1 964 offer by North Vietnam to send an emissaryto talk Pôst, F ebruaiV 4,'l 9671 !'history" disJust as,important as the textbook ,tortions are the omissions: the long, barbaric series of war cri,rnes, the extent of long-range destructiôncultural and ecplogical, our war.planners motives and strateg¡es contemptuously hidden fröm the public, the repression at home aga¡nst the anti-war mcivement, and the construct¡on of a presidential monarchy growo i: What must be done? Students, parents, and teach- ing out in the early 1970's find all these distortions ' ru"nning through most of them. Herg.is one example of the kind of "history" we are in får if we don't act. According to a Ginn ànd Company (A Xerox company they po¡nt out on the title page) high school textbook, Decisions in U.S. History, "President Ly.ndon B. Johnson made repeatedefforts to stop the war. . . .North ß i 1322 lSth Strset N.W. Washlngton, D.C. 20036 l - CLERGY n¡¡o unirv coNcERNED 235 East 49th Streôt Nêw York City, N.Y. 1OO17 .WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE 339 l-afavdte str€et New York Clty, N.Y. 10012 WOMEN'9 INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM 1213 Race Str€€t Phlladelphla. Pa, 19107 , INDOCHINA PEACE CAMPAIGN 181 Pler Aven ué Santa Monlca, ca. 90405 ...i ',4 FELLOWSHIP OF RECONCILIATION B,ox 271 Nyack, N.Y. 10960 | NA PROGRAM, AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE reals need for past, should create an atmosphere for understandings that go beyond the simple, nationalistic patriotism of the past. The alternative to an honesthistory of this period to allow the same power-fo.rces that initiated and orchestrated the Vietnam V/ar to explain that wár to our children. That should never happen is Bìll Grlffen teoches ot the Stote Unlversity of New York at Cortlond. He has long been octive ¡n the move: ment for peace ond civil rights, wtN 9 ,l WAOî WtrO IN WATDNGATD S KQ PO RE PO RTE RED URGAN SMT T E R PW E RL I C I{MAN E INA GC TE I LRE E RV I N G RE B S L T. gA N B C NXY A I PTN UH I U C HA LD N}fA NA OA TO N C TEO COX RHS I TTE RGE S RIN P H D E RO OMNNLA RU EN E I T,MDD EA E N RS TT S NE IDN I E T,KO EOT RGV P I NE HHT E YD EXM IT C HE RLA EN N O I N O E U Y EDA S A XA I L YlITM E S RS X AM L N S RY N S I. I R E KA B N O N!,7 T O T O PI'Í K ET^T A L T E R S T,ü N R E U N F T E F B I S S N E 1 GX T"A LI.TA D G E LTE O I OHGO RKS LOAN EE S ITCEEO RN ENA RNA HCA RT SM RGLNT RLY IN U Y G N E I,.I S U KA t'M B A C H Hlil A E A lvt X I BTE S E HNOMUC LGDOHVA EV RE KNANT CHYY PTUOTG TE HT IHS E 670,000 persons need helP, but the COKE CAUGHT CHEATING Coca-Cola found out this summer that a United Farm Worker contract is "the real thing", when their citrus workers won an important contract settlement. The.company was ordered by a . Federal mediafor !o pay Union members a roral of $80,000 to $1'00,000 in back pay-the amount the comPanY had been underpaying their workers in the past 15 months. Farm workers who were Picking citrus by the tubful were being paid at a rate of ten boxes per tub. When * measurements were taken b! the suspiciòus farm workers, it was found the tubs actually cont¿i ned 1 O/¿ boxes. Coca-Cola maintained the difference wasn't worth haggling over, but it added up to $80 to $100 per worker! -ElMalcriado FARMWORKERS BEAT TEAMSTERS RIT ChAN SOLDIER GIVES lsoo fo AFRtcANs Specialist 4 John H. Robínson, Jr., a 9th lnfantry Division soldier has spent 9500 of his re-enlistment bonus for starving families in Africa and has pledged to match a similar donation by other G.l.s. [WlN Sept 3,1973 Changes] Robinson, a member of the 709th Maintenance Battalion at Fort Lewis, presented a check for $500 to the Af' rican Chamber of Coilcmerce's Project Survival in San Francisbo, set up to aid victims of the drought in Africa. He pledged to match each of the next five' $100 donations to the fund made bY any soldier. Robinson comes f¡om the Washing' ton, D.C., ghetto and "l can readilY imagine what it feels like to be hungry," he said. Last winter Robinson worked as a recruiter for the 9th Division is Wash' the grape and l'ettuce fields of Califor' nia. An agreement, negotiated bY Cesar Chavez and officials of the Team' sters and the AFL-ClO, affirmed the ' UFW's right to organize field workers in California. The Teamstçrs were given jurisdiction over pac[