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JðO T R T L FÛLI]Y 2232 EI-ANDI:}N ÐR L CLTVEL-AND HTS ,DH 44LO6 00oCI 'L 'about handi- independent publishing, the arrest and way. What's happening there is hap- UNINDICTED I appreciate detention not only of those who might be pening in a lot ofplaces and under á CO-CONSPIRATORS called war criminals but of political inde- variety of ideological and economic Douglas Biklen lan Barrv o Lance Belville . MarisCakars* pendents many auspices. not more anti-com- o much. Hôw- of whom risked their I'm any Susan Cákars* . J erry Coffin* Lynne Shatzkin Coffin* . Dear -t discussing the security and lives in opposition to Thieu, munist than I am anti any system that Ann Davidon ¡ Diana Davies Ruth the closing down ofthe School ofYouth sees human beings as objeõts for pro- Ralph DiGia' o Brian Doherty ' william Douthard' Kaien Durbin* o ChuckFager o Seth Foldy (L'Ira' the for Social Service, the arrest and beating gramming-and human rights as a o joan me that handi- J ¡m Forest . Larry Car.a Libby Hawk* December 9, 19761 Vol. Xll, No. 42 llity or are in insti- of monks active in the nonviolent move- luxury. But I don't think we do ourselves Ñeil Haworth. Ed Hedemann o Crace Hedemann ment, the closing of many Buddhist ser- or our efforts a favor to romantici4ç what Hendrik Hertzberg* Marty J ezer* Becky J ohnson opporttrnities. I . ' o ' Karpel projects (hartlly the is happening turn NancyJohnson Þaul Johnson Alison 4. Why Does the US Still Fear the Cuban Revolution ? ¡ed persons to tead vice and educational in Vietnam, orto a CraigKarpel . Kyper . Eliot Linzer* ! John Rev. byGunnel Enby, a "please continue this kind ofwork" deafear toward the suffering that con- Jacklon Mac Low o DavidMcReynolds* PhilipZwerling o ed woman. Ifound it message that Thich Mandala reports), tinues, or to explain it away. Not that MaryMayo.¡ o David Morris MarkMorris' '1'1. Richards ¡ lgal Roodenko* Graham Center: Hope for the Small Farmer Peter Shiras the confïscation ofmoney and property Scudder Parker does; I think he would J im Þeck Tad / )rary. FredRosen o NancyRosen o EdSanders B.FREDERICKSEN connected with Buddhist relief share my hope that Amnesty Interna- w"ÀdyS.h*"rtt. o MarthaThomases'Artwaskow 14. Ebeye: Apartheid US Style / Ciff Johnsonj white Pl¿lns,NY work-and the immolation of 12 monks tional or some other independent inter- Beverly Woodward 16. and nuns in Can Tho last November. national group would look into these alle- *Memberof WIN Editorial Board' Changes t This is by no means an exhaustive gations-in Vietnam as in Chile, the 19. Reviews / BrendaDixon-Stowell &Wendy Schwartz listing ofthe information on repression USSR, the US, Israel, Iran, Uganda, etc.- WIN is published every Thursday except for the first in Vietnam. But these are either well It has struck me in a number of week in January, the last week in March, the sgcond Covèr: Cuban and North American women working together. Photo documented (as with the immolations, responses to r4y article and similar ex- week in May, the tast two weeks in August, the f irliwo weeks in September and the last week in December by by Liberation Nêws Service. the "re-education" programs, the pressions ofccjncern that we tènd to W.l.N. Magazine, lnc. w¡th the support of the War closings, etc.) or come from sources overlook the immolations last Novem- Resisters League. Subscr¡ptions are $11.00 per year. within Vietnam who have previously ber. Yet the first dernonstration against Second clasi pbstaeê paid at New York, NY 10001 and 503 Atlantic Ave. / sth Fl. STAFF àdditional mailing offices. lndividual writers are paid a price in their resistance work the war that I recall was ã1963 NY 11217' high Vietnam responsible foropinions expressed and accuracy of.facts Brooklyn, PegAverill o RuthannEvanoff and repeatedly proven their credibility picketline (in which the WRLwas given. Sorry-manuscr¡pts cannot be returned urrless Telephone: (212) 624.8337, Susan Pines o Murray Rosenblith and regard for the truth. particularly involved, along with the ãccompanied by a self-address"o,',"'Ë;fl,3iü'i,n,i 624-8595 to Katz Reliance on un-named sources, while Catholic Worker) protesting the self-im- Special thanks Stuart a minor part of the news I've written up molation of Thich Quang Duc; this was at lately, shouldn't be such abig deal to us, the New York residence of South Viet- rod. I've been accused ofbeing in the imolies that Forest's reflèction il a aboutthe withering away of the state, Again and again throughout the Vietnam na¡n's observer. I'm now looking at a CIA,, in need of time iñ a re-education crificism of Vietnamese people unfot- presumably following the bubbling war we had to rely on information that photo ofone ofthe nuns, an old woman, camp, being hung up on ethics, being tunatelv forced to defend their lives with èuphoria and togetherness created by a came under similar circumstances- whoburned herselflast yearTn Can Tho. American weapoñs, ot a belittling of the com- "strong, indepeident popular base of ' haoõed in white middle class people sticking their necks way out but And I'm reading again the abbot of the skiirãnd thus with no right to sPeak even munity activity described by the Nun institutions and organizations. " asking for confidentiality. In 1968 I was monastery'ó final message: "My act ifall the allegations are ttue, a closet Mandala. Tothe contrary, Forest's Belling's basic delusion-that non- may be described as unusual . but as anti-communist secretly involved in a statement is one baSed on compassion voters differ radically from votets-was article [WIN, wisdom shines, we should look at events olot to keeo Vietnam out of the UN. .' for all people victimized by war. The demolished by post-election surveys in- in their own lffithout the ire and others to task, in timing. light it's been, t]o say the least, mind-blowing. sentence that comes just before the dicatin! virtually no difference iri basic e-in-Wonderland ap- there is no chance for the people, be they Double standards, anyone? ouotation is from St. John ofthe Cross¡ political attitudes. The American people m: verdict first, evi- good or wicked, to know where to go and Well, I don't think Scudder Parker is 'ìWhere you put love, you find love." get politicians who closely reflect their letters how to act. I do not act in foolishness resoondins at that level. His article indi- The sacrifiõe of the.12 was "appealing values; Richard Nixon still has plenty of (and most of us) work [but with the] hope that the blind will catês a geñfler, more searching to the government to respect the right of defenders. The humanitarian idealist ;sumptions in making. see, the deaf will hear andlivingbeings-¡ temoerãment-and for that I'm im- freedom of worship of all religions. " It, should protest the fact that democracy ut events; probably tgo involved in helping to get out a major [at all levels of existence] will benefit menìely grateful. And I'm grateful to was done in consequence ofan otder by works too well, not that it doesn't work, from the light. , On the shore of ; rooted in painful exped- study of repression and imprisonmént see WIN giving some thought to the the local government authorities to the at least if its premise is to manifest awakening, I shall be waiting for you. " tl, longbeforethe under the Saigon government-written questions this iubject raises, not only community not to display the Buddhist oooularvalues.^ !rs, that there was a gteat by a Vietnamese Buddhist activistwho The monks and nunS whoburned about Vietnam but about what it means flag. [itiforbade re-ligious retreats and i\s for the typical non-voter's view that .rus lying going on in the had been a prisoner.and rjvho had towrite themselves, as thé executive council of not onlv tobe American butto be a the observation of silence, demanded Presidential candidates ate indis- . Before there was much under a false name. the Unified Buddhist'Church of Vietnam human being residing on a very tinY the abbot to expound 'the glotious, his' tinguishably bad, thatbelief usually re- upport it, I assumed that Scudder Parker is, understandably, explained in a subsequent letter to the torical and greãt victory ofthe Revolu- veals an abysmal ignorance ofthe government, so Pranet' cehindthe military coup in impressed v;ith Thich Mandala. She is did rather than submit to -TrilTlr$i tion,'. [ordered] the monks andnuns is$ues. Letts take merely twoissues of .row its echo in Thailand. an able representative ofthe Vietnamese instructions forbidding display of the to participate in the political activities of the 1976 campaign: the B-1 bomber and (with g post-warVietnam, government as she was earlierforthe Buddhistflag six colored stripes, In "Reconciliation and Vietnam" [\{IN, 'revolutionary organizations,' and re- abortion. Carter opposed a massive, all- ' each representing a virtue emphasized program, :ook me well ovet ayearof revolution in progress. She speaks with ll / l8 / 7 ílScudder H. Parker quotes quired that no new members be received out B-1 bomber construction rding and listening to con- conviction and intelligence. I only wish I in Buddhism-the same {Iag the from an article by Jim Forest in Fellow' into the community. whereas Ford backed it. Carter opposed tession and the insistent had the money to give Scudder Parker an Diem government sought to-repiess in ehlp (October, 1976) entitled "Vietnam: The 12 pteferred to make a torch and a Constitution¿ll amendment nullifuing prohibition rect ideology was a major air ticket to France.