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1 SpEcUl EdiTORs ANd Topics of UpccwviiNQ Issues Vietnam Homecoming: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Chair: Catherine Calloway, April 1989 — A White Man’s War: Race Issues and English, Arkansas State Univ. "Healing from Vietnam. Dr. William King. Black Studies, University of the War; Images of Renewal and Colorado at Boulder. Boulder, CO 80309. Transcendence in Lany Heinemann's Close Q ua rters.' John Bowers, English, College of Juiy 1989 — Teaching the War. Interdisciplinary Strategies. St. Francis; "Epilogues; A Generational Study Dr. N. Bradley Christie, Stetson University, Department of of the Post-Combat Readjustment English, Box 8308, DeLand. FL 32720. Experiences of Veterans of WW2, Korea, and Vietnam,' Kyra Kester, History, Univ. of October 1989— GenderandWar. Dr. Jacqueline Lawson, Washington at Seattle; "Moon Landing: A University of Michigan at Dearbome, Department of Memory.' Rebecca B. Faery, 730 N. Linn St., Humanities, College of Arts. Sciences, and Letters, Iowa City. IA; "The Only Cure I Know is a Dearborn, Ml 48128. Good Ceremony: The Ritual of Return in Because each issue o f Vietnam Generation is intended to Selected Vietnam War Fiction,' Catherine stand on Its own as a teaching text and academic Calloway. Respondent: Robert Burko, resource, we have decided not to include letters to the English, Carroll College. editors, book and film reviews, and advertisements in the The Vietnam Aviator: Myth and Reality. Chair: Journal Itself. We will. Instead, make space for all those Charles J. Gaspar, English, USAFA. "Awash materials here In the Newsletter. Feel free to send in Infidelity: Achieving Distance from War in comments, corrections, reviews of any related materials, Coming Home.' Gwendolyn D. Fayne, and letters; we will publish all that we have room for. English, USAFA; "I, Too, Sing America: Listings In all categories are free, Including the Publications Vietnam as Metaphor in Coming Home.' and Products column. Advertising rates for camera- Verner D. Mitchell, English, USAFA; "Patriots ready copy are as follows; and Politics: The Myth of the Riot in Vietnam,' Half Page; $60 Herbert Smith. English, USAFA; "From the Quarter Page: $45 Ground Up: The Grunt's Image of the Aviator Business Card Size; $25 in Vietnam Fiction and Film,' Charles J. Gaspar. PubliCATION OppORTUNiTiES Vietnam Today—Slide Presentation. Chair: Cecil B. Currey, History, Univ. of South Florida. UMI Research Press Invites proposals for single- or multi­ "Vietnam Today,' Cecil Currey. author books or anthologies for two new series; Studies in Vietnam War Films: Perception and Film and Television, edited by Robert Sklar of New York Representation. Chair: Tony Williams. Univ., and Challenging the Literary Canon, edited by Cinema & Photography, So. Illinois Univ. "The Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of Cornell Univ.,andJ. Hlllis Miller of Resurrection of the Male as Logos,' Ra Cseri- the Univ. of California at Irvine, among others. They Briones. Cinema & Photography, So. Illinois welcome work from a variety of critical approaches and Univ.; "Anti-War GIs and Vietnam: The Interdisciplinary studies. For more Information about these Forgotten Voice of Protest,' Dane Thompson, series or to receive a list of new and forthcoming books, Cinema & Photography, So. Illinois Univ.; contact Barbara K. Timmons, Acquisitions Editor, UMI "Issues of Gender in Vietnam Cinema,' Research Press. 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Ml 48106. Jennifer Johns, Cinema & Photography, So. Illinois Univ.; 'Fu ll Metal Jacket's Excremental Vision,' Tony Williams. The Vietnam Aviator: Constructed and E v e n t s Deconstructed Meanings. Chair: James Quivey, English, Eastern Illinois Univ. "The Popular Culture Association/American Culture Images of the Aviator in the New Media,' Association National Meeting, April 5-8, St. Louis, Thomas D. Klincar, English, USAFA; "Survival MO. Everyone interested in Vietnam Era and Psychology and Bat 2 1 .' George M. Luker, Generation scholarship should be aware of this English, USAFA; "The Huey Legacy in Vietnam conference. Because of its importance to the field, Fiction,' William T. Merrick, English, USAFA; we are listing all panels and presenters who deal "The Great War and the Dirty Little War,' with topics relevant to the field. James R. Aubrey, English, USAFA.

- 2 - Issues and Themes in the Literature of the Minneapolis; “Versions of Reality in Current Vietnam War. Chair: David A. Willson, Vietnam War Novels.' Gary Acton, English. Librarian, Green River Community College, Eastern Montana College; ‘American Blood Auburn, WA. 'Women and the Vietnam Becomes American Light—Two Recent War,' Joe P. Dunn, History & Politics, Converse Fictional Views of the Vietnam War.'Tony College; 'Darkness in the East: The Vietnam Edmonds, History, Ball State Univ.; 'Readers Novels of Takeshi Kaiko,* Mark A. Heberle, and Critics Searching for Contexts in Vietnam English, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa; 'Vietnam Narratives,' Tobey C. Herzog. Narrative and Science Fiction: Robert The Vietnam Experience and the Question of Heinlein and Joe Haldeman,' Dan Duffy, Genre. Chair: Don Ringnalda, English, 188 Mansfield St., New Haven, CT 06511; College of St. Thomas. ‘Resistance and 'Nam Porno: A Study of the Pornographic Revision in Poetry by Vietnam Veterans.' Literature of the Vietnam War," David A. Lorrie Smith, English, St. Michael's College; Willson. 'The Deer Hunter as American Epic,' Bob Myth and Vietnam. Chair: William J. Searle, Bourdette. English, Univ. of New Orleans; English, Eastern Illinois Univ. 'The Myth of the ’The Vietnam War Combat Film: A Genre Warrior in Mark Baker's N a m ' Robert M. Unto Itself.* Ralph B. Donald, Mass Slabey. English, Univ. of Notre Dame; 'Good Communication, Westfield State College; Guy Gone Bad: The Figure of the Inverted ’Getting it Wrong is Doing it Right: America's Hero in Literary Narrative of the Vietnam Vietnam War Drama,* Don Ringnalda. War,* Gerald T. Burns, Wesleyan Univ.; 'A s Ways of War: New Perspectives on the American Soldier Lads Pass By...' Alan F. Farrell, Modern Experience. Chair: William Woodward. Languages, Hampden-Sydney College. History, Seattle Pacific Univ.; ’Another Front: Women Writers and the Vietnam War. Chair: Writing and Returning from Vietnam.' Maria Kate B. Meyers, English Language & S. Bonn. English, SUNY Buffalo; ’War and the Literature, Univ. of Tulsa. ‘Humping the Teaching of History,' Michael L. Salevouris, Boonies: Sex, Combat, and the Female in History, Webster Univ. Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country," Katherine American War Comics from WW2 through Kinney, English, Univ. of Pennsylvania; Vietnam. Chair: Bill Gipson, Sociology, 'Cassandra's Notebooks: Joan Didion and Southern Methodist Univ. ’Vietnam War Vietnam,' Gordon O. Taylor, English Comics and the American War Novel,' Rick Language and Literature, Univ. of Tulsa; Berg, English, PitzerCollege; ’Reprocessing ‘ Painful Mirror Games: Doubling in the the War in The N a m .' Harry W. Haines, Vietnam War Plays by Megan Terry and Communications, Trinity Univ; ‘The Utopia of Adrienne Kennedy,' Lori Hall Burghardt, Male Warrior Societies in American War English, Univ. of Tennessee at Knoxville. Comics,* Bill Gipson. Vietnam and the Issues of Violence and Atrocity. Vietnam. Television, andother Media. Chair: Al Chair: Cornelius A. Cronin, English, Louisiana Auster,Television 8c Radio, Brooklyn College. State Univ. at Baton Rouge. ‘Counting Small “Television on Trial: Deception and Denial in Boned Bodies and Other Pastimes: An the Case of The Uncounted Enemy.' Carol Examination of Five Poems Protesting the Wilder, Communications, San Francisco Vietnam War,' Delma M. Porter, English,Texas State Univ.; ‘The War and Its Aftermath: The A&M; 'W ith Children as Targets: The War Evolving Image of the Vietnam Experience Against American Personnel Outside in Network Television Drama,* M. Elaine Vietnam,* Oscar Patterson III, Telecom­ Browne. English, New York Inst, of Tech.; 'Press munications, Pembroke State Univ.; 'Philip Coverage of the Tonkin Gulf Incidents,* Caputo and the Impact of Violence,* Edwin Moise, History, Clemson Univ.; 'The Thomas R. Maddux. History, California State War over the War: Television Documentary Univ. at Northridge; 'Their Dreams that Drip and the Vietnam War,’ Al Auster. withMurder: TheAtrocityinAmericanWriting Vietnam and Current Criticdl Thinking. Chair: About the Vietnam War," Cornelius A. Cronin. N. Bradley Christie, English, Stetson Univ. 'The Vietnam War Literature: Context and Canon. Absent Presence in Revisionist Vietnam Chair: Tobey C. Heizog, English, Wabash History,* Stephen Vlastos, Univ. of Iowa; College. 'MIA: Vietnam and the Canon,' 'Refiguring America's Heart of Darkness: The Michael Bibby, English, Univ. of Minnesota at Narrative Quest and the Typology of

- 3 - Studies, Univ. of Missouri; ‘Introducing The Otherness in Representations of Vietnam,' Lesson of the Vietnam War: A Modular Eric Meyer, English, Univ. of Wisconsin at Textbook.’ Jerold M. Starr. Madison; ‘The Gordian Knot: Rhetoric and Politics of Self-Deception: Lacunae in Values in Paco's Story and In Country.’ Contemporary Vietnam Scholarship. Chair: Andrea Sanders, English. Univ. of Chicago; Kali Tal, Vietnam Generation. ‘Of Politics ‘Re/Reading Bom on the Fourth of Ju ly' N. and Protest: Memories of a Student Activist, Bradley Christie. 1969-1972,' Jacqueline Lawson, English,Univ. The Vietnam War and Modem Memory. Chair: of Michigan at Dearbome: ‘Contemporary Philip K. Jason, English, USNA. ‘Vietnam Black Scholarship and the Study of the Novelists and Other Wars: I've Seen this Vietnam War,' Herman Beavers, American Movie Before,' Nancy Anisfield. English, Studies, Vale Univ.; ‘ Minority Drama About Champlain College; ‘Memory, Desire, and the Vietnam War,' Dave DeRose, Director of Vietnam,'David Ullrich, English, Birmingham- Theater Studies, Yale Univ.; ‘Glaring Southern College; ‘The Noise is Always in My Omissions: Personal Politics and the Recent Head: Auditory Images in Vietnam War Scholarship on the Vietnam War,' Kali Tal. Literature,' Philip K. Jason. Vietnam: The Antiwar Movement. Chair: Narrative Technique in Vietnam War Fiction. Benjamin! Harrison.History,Univ. of Louisville. Chair: Renate W. Prescott, American Culture, ‘The Iconography of Dissent: Vietnam Bowling Green State Univ. ‘Vietnam Imagery in the Underground Journals of the Discourse in Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country." 1960s,' Mary Lee Muller, History, Univ. of Aileen Chris Shafer, English, West Virginia Wisconsin at Madison; ‘Shattered Faith: Univ; ’In Country and In the Country of the Student Anti-War Protesters and the Mind,' Lonnie L. Willis, English, Boise State Disintegrating American Dream,' Jacqueline Univ.; ‘Almosting It: Cacciato and the R. Smetak, English, Iowa State Univ. at Ames; Problem of Teleology,' Grant F. Scott, English, ‘Vietnam and the Dan Quayle Syndrome,' UCLA; ‘The Collective Narrative Voice in Jerome Loving, English, Texas A&M; ‘The Paco's Story. The Dead Speak,' Renate W. 1960s Peace Movement: Success or Failure?' Prescott. Benjamin T. Harrison. The Vietnam War Film. Chair: Bennet Schaber, Vietnam in the Classroom: Issues and English, Syracuse Univ. ‘Who Are These Techniques. Chair: Steve Potts. History. People? Vietnamese in American Films,' Hibbing Community College. ‘The Seven Martin Novelli, Asst. Provost for Academic Phases of The Vietnam Experience.’ Terry Affairs, Rutgers; ‘A Brief Examination of the Frazier, English, Univ. of N. Carolina; Vietnam War Film as a Distinctive Film Genre: ‘ Maneuvers and Minefields: Teaching Or Old Myths Adapted, a New Myth Vietnam Using Film asText,' D. Melissa Hilbish, Created,' Robert T. Baird.English,Oklahoma American Studies, Univ. of Maryland at State Univ; ‘The Horror, the Horror: College Park; ‘An Oral History of Mainland Apocalypse Now as Horror Film,' James N. Regional High School Class of 1966 and the Votes, English, Oklahoma State Univ.; Vietnam War,' Paul Lyons, Behavioral and ‘Rambo, Revisionism, and Reality,' George Social Sciences, Stockton State College; E. Hopkins, History, Western Illinois Univ.; ‘Are We Ugly Americans? Teaching Cultural ‘Vietnam, The Movie from War to Voice Understanding of the Vietnam War,' Steve Over,' Bennet Schaber, Potts. Teaching the Vietnam War. Chair: Jerold M. Starr, Center for Social Studies Education, To attend the conference you must be a 115MayfairDr.,Pittsburgh,PA. ‘Pedagogical member of either the PCA or ACA ($25) Implications of Teaching Literature of the and pay a fee of $50 for regular members, Vietnam W ar,' Fred A. Wilcox, Box 576, or $ 15. for students, retired, or unemployed Trumansburg. NY; ‘The International Studies persons. Registration at the conference Approach to Teaching the Vietnam War: will be an extra $5.00. For more information The Need for Balance,' Dennis Lubeck, write Popular Culture Conference, Popular Director, International Educational Culture Building, Bowling Green State Univ., Consortium, 6800 Wydown, St. Louis, MO; Bowling Green, OH 43403. ’Teaching Teachers About the Vietnam War.' Joel Glassman, Centerfor International

- 4 - R e so u r c e s Veterans—Vietnam Restoration Project, 716 Locust S t.. PO Box 69. Garbervllle. CA 95440 (707) 923-3357 or 923-3881. Announcing the formation of the Veterans—Vietnam The Christopher Reynolds Foundation ,121 East 61 st Street, Restoration Project, a non-profit organization emanating New York, NV 10021. Jack Clareman, Executive Director: from the Garbervllle area of Northern California. The (212) 838-2920. The Christopher Reynolds Foundation will purpose of this new Veterans group Is to return to the make grants only to those projects that fall within the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and construct a small rural scope of the Foundation's Interests at the time application health clinic there. We will be sending a team of 12 Is made for a grant. At present, the focus of the Vietnam veterans who are carpenters and have other Foundation's Interest Is Southeast Asia, with partidiar building skills. We wish to return to Vietnam, not as tourists, emphasis on humanitarian aid and reconciliation with but as builders as a way of actively waging peace. The respect to Vietnam. Cambodia and Loos. The Foundation purposes of this project are many and Interrelated. The will not make grants to building funds, medical research, function of building the health clinic Is to personally repair educational or religious Institutions (except In relation to the damage that we have Inflicted on the population. research on subjects that fall within the scope of the Our secondary function Is to complete a study on Post- Foundatton'scurrent Interests), nor will It provide for general Traumatic Stress Disorder. Many Vietnam Era veterans are operating or overhead expenses (except for newly afflicted with psychological and sociological problems organized entitles whose objectives fall within the area of associated with their service in the combat areas during the Foundation's current Interests). The foundation does the war. We expect that the act of returning to the war not use a formal grant application form. Proposals should zone will be a healing experience for us. There will be a set forth specific objectives, detailed estimated budgets, Vietnam veteran psychologist traveling and training with qualifications of the organizations and Individuals Involved us to complete a study on PTSD and Its effects on our and proof of tax-exempt status under the appropriate twelve team members. We will also do a book and a provisions of the US Internal Revenue Code. Six copies of vtdeoprogramforPublicTelevIsion. Our teams will undergo the application are required. our own psychological screening process with a firm commitment to the principals of non-violence as ORQANiZATIONS articulated by Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. The Veterans—Vietnam Restoration Project envisions a continuous stream of Veterans returning to Vietnam to The G l Movement O ral History Project. 548 Riverside Drive, complete many projects. Apt. 2C. New York. NY 10027. Skip Delano (212) 749-0169. Interested In 'recruiting and enlisting' others Into working Vietnam Veterans Against the War (An 11-Imperialist), New on the project — Vietnam vets in particular, but Just as York-New Jersey Chapter, Box A67, West 20th Street, NY Important, some of the high school and college students 10011. (212)749-0169. In 1986. a group of Vietnam vets and teachers who have already done history with vets or established a new antt-Imperlalist organization to work In would like to do It in the future. The Project does Interviews, the New York City area. We called ourselves Vietnam focusing on the organized end of political activity In ihe Gl Veterans United to Prevent World War 3. For the past two movement (the Gl papers and organizations and civilian years we have been active In the antiwar movement, support groups) and the movement among Black, Latin exposing and opposing American aggression at all possible and other'm inority'vets. For those willing to work with the opportunities. We have especially tried to work with Project, we will provide some historical background on young people. In September of 1988 we decided to the Gl movement and some guidelines for conducting merge our group with the Vietnam Veterans Against the interviews. War (Anti-Imperialist). There will be two groups active In the New York City area, both calling themselves W AW . United Campuses to Prevent Nuclear War, 633 Elm . Rm. To help clarify the political differences between the two 119. Norman OK 73009. or 309 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE. W AW s, we are distributing a collection of leaflets and Washington, DC 2003 (202) 543-1505. The University articles from the two organizations. The collection was first Ok la ho ma chapter of UCAM has established a networking produced last year by ihe Seattle chapter of W AW (Al) program through which they work to make contact with after the national leadership of W AW , Inc. (Chicago) peace and Justice organizations around the world for the attacked and red-baited W A W (Al) in their publications purpose of exchanging Information about their activities. and In the vets movement. Around the same time, our Since December of 1987, they have become affiliated own newly formed organization. Vietnam Veterans United with over a hundred groups at the regional. national, and to Prevent WW 3, came under attack from the coordinators International levels. The resources they are given by these of the New York-New Jersey chapter of W AW , Inc. They organizations are available to the entire university wrote a letter and sent It to all antiwar organizations In the community. In this way, they are able to provide a great region. They warned that we were a 'bogus' group and deal of Information about the arms race and related suggested that antiwar groups not work with us or support peace Issues. UCAM Is the only organization working to our activities. We feel It Is time to help sort out the political build an effective campus-based movement to stop the differences between the two organizations. W AW (Al) is nuclear arms race. UCAM chapters are at work on more than 300 campuses In the US and Canada.

- 5 - open to all veterans who seek to contribute to the antl- the Americans. Lady, who speaks Vietnamese, was and lmpertallst vets’ movement. We know that there are remains the only American writer whom the Vietnamese differences between organizations and we welcome any have allowed to live In a village with a family. discussion and struggle on those differences. P h ilip Brown. History Department, UNC Charlotte. S cHoLars ini j Ue FiEld Charlotte, NC 28223 (704) 547-4646; 2504 Camden Rod.. Greensboro. NC 27403 (419) 273-2192 (home). East Aslan historian teaching Vietnam from an Asian, rather than John Andrew, Department of History. Franklin and Marshal American, perspective. Interested In comparative College. Lancaster. PA 17604. Currently teaching a perspectives on traditional rural communities, refugees. course on the Vietnam War, and has taught courses on Ameraslans. and resettlement. the 1960s and on the US since 1945. Request for help: Very much Interested in syllabi, etc. from people currently Frank Burdick. 27 Van Hoesen St., Cortland, NY 13045. teaching courses on the war In Vietnam and post-1945 Interested In how US military has evaluated the Vietnam American history. experience. Engaged In a project on combat refusals during Unebocker 2 operations In December 1972. John S. Baky, Bibliographer, Connelly Ubrary. Special Professor of History at SUNY Cortland. Collections. LaSalle Unlv.. Philadelphia. PA 19141. (215) 951-1290. Curator of a collection entitled 'Imaginative Larry Cobb, History Department. Oklahoma City Unlv.. Representations of the Vietnam War." The collection OKC. Oklahoma 73106 (405) 521 -5247). Teaching Vietnam focuses on prose Action, novels, short stories, poetry, War, Vietnam Novel and Film. American Popular Culture graphic art. palnAng .sound .video. Aim .and photography. (Western Alms, rock and roll. TV sports). Served In Vietnam This is the largest collection of its kind in the world. It is open 1969-1970, Captain, Signal Corps: Nha Trang, Phu Lam. by appointment at all times free of charge. Presently BA, Duke Unlv. 1966; Ph.D. Emory Unlv. 1978. there are 2500 Items In the collection. Barbara Cohen, M.D., 1860 El Camlno. Burlingame, CA Milton J. Bates. English Department, Marquette Unlv.. 94010. Writing a travel guide to Vietnam to be published Milwaukee. W1 53233. Vietnamveteran.currenttystudytng In Spring of 1988. Request for help: Interested in travellers' the social and c Jtixa l contexts of Vietnam war literature experiences In Vietnam for next revision (especially and Aim. veterans).

Uoyd Beecher, History Department, Cal Poty Tech State David Cortright, Co-Director. SANE/FREEZE, 711 G. St., SE, Unlv.. San Luis Obispo. CA 93401. Historian. US foreign Washington. DC 20003. Former active duty soldier and relations; teaches a course called 'The Vietnam War at activist in the Gl movement. Author of Soldiers In Revolt. Home and In Southeast Asia *; on the Board of Directors of Expert on the Gl movement and the military history of the 'Healing the Wounds', a touring, multi-media exhibit of war. Interested in developing the theme that the US California Vietnam era veterans art work. military collapsed from within, and that the US military defeat was due to the effectiveness of the Vietnamese Bohmer, Peter. The Evergreen State College. SEM 3154. political and military resistance, and Internal opposition Olympia. WA 98505. Interested In an analysis of political here at home. economy of Vietnam today; more generally, economics of Vietnam, Mozambique and Angola. Nicaragua — Richard Currey, c/o Lynn Nesblt. International Creative development In revolutionary societies where war Management. 40 West 47th St.. New York. NY 10019 (212) continues. Also Interested In analyses of anti-Vietnam war 566-5600. Novelist, short story writer, author of C rossing movem ent. Over: A Vietnam Journal (Pdltzer nominee, now out of print); Fdfo/Ughf(EPDutton/SeymouLawrence),awldety Borton, Lady. 12800 Stella Road, MIIIAeld. OH 45761. praised prize-wining 'coming home' novel published April A uthor o f Sensing the Enemy: An American Woman 1988 In US, October 1988 In UK, forthcoming In several Among the Boat People of Vietnam (Doubleday. 1984; languages. Author Is available for readings, lectures, available from the author SI 5). Sensing the Enemy was w orkshops. the Inspiration fo r Laura Ja c kso n 's After Our War: How Will Love Speak?, a half-hour public television documentary John Del Vecchlo. 74 Taunton Lake Rd., Newtown, CT about six American writers whose work has centered on 06470. Author of The Thirteenth Valley, which has been Vietnam. Lady Is also producer of After Sorrow, a half- printed In 4 languages. To be published In 1989: Fo r the hour radio documentary from Vietnam. Two of her essays Sake of All Living Things. Has spoken at over Afty universities have been anthologized In Women on War (Sim on & and colleges in the US and UK. Schuster, 1988). Lady Is currently working on P illa rs o f Peace, a photo-essay book about a village In northern Elder, David, c/o American Friends Service Committee, Vietnam with Bob Nlckelsberg. Tim e photographer for 1501 Cherry St.. Philadelphia. PA 19144. Helps carry out South Asia. Her other work-in-progress Is After Sorrow, a development projects in Vietnam for the AFSC. book about ordinary southern villagers who fought agalnst

- 6 - Jeffrey P. Kimball. History Department, Miami Unlv.. Oxford OH 45056. Teaches courses called 'The US—Vietnam Thom a* J. Ferguson, 4191 Halupa St.. Honolulu, HI 96818 War;' *US Foreign Policy;' 'American Way of W ar;' and, (808) 423-1478. A Vietnam veteran (1966-1967 with the 'Alternatives to War." Has written a book on Vietnam 25th Inf Dlv) he Is conducting research for a comparative called To Reason Why: The Debate about the Causes of analysis of popviar literature of the Vietnam War and US Involvement In the Vietnam War (New York: Knopf) earlier American wars. Recently completed Ph.D. forthcoming, August 1989. dissertation. 'American Perceptions of the Vietnam War In Popular Literature: An Interpretation by a Professional Michael Klein, English. M edia & American Studies. Unlv. of Soldier' (Unlv. of Hawaii). The dissertation Is not available Ulster at Jordanstown, Shore Road. Newtonabbey, Co. through UMI. Major Interest In popular literature, fiction Antrim, BT 370WB. Northern Ireland. UK. Areas of interest: and personal narratives. Has a personal library of about Vletnam-era antiwar protest; film; education; literature. 300novels (out of a bibliographic listing of 500 plus) and 50 Book: The US and Vietnam: Popular Culture and Society personal narratives. (London: Pluto). Articles In Dumbrell and Walsh, Vietnam andthe Anti-War Movement!, London: Gower) and Riches, Richard Fllnn. Chair. English Department. Naval Academy The Turbulent Decade. Coordinating Committee, Rutgers Prep School. NETC Newport, Rl 02841. Unlv. Vietnam Era Curriculum Project and the Unlv. of Swansea Vietnam Era Conference. Also. In 1965. a founder Samuel Freeman. Political Science Dept., Pan American of the Berkeley Vietnam Day Committee and film Unlv..Edinburg.TX 78539. Presently making a comparative production team (direction, script, editing) of Vietnam analysis of US foreign policy In Vietnam/Southeast Asia Day Berkeley 1965. Three Vietnam Era Poets; Vietnam Vets and Central America, with specific focus on El Salvador Speak Out. and Nicaragua. Ann® Klejment. History Department. Box 4188. College of Jerry Gold, PO Box 95676. Seattle. WA 98145. Served In St. Thomas. St. Paul. MN 55105. Working on the antiwar Special Forces 1963-1966. in Vietnam 1965-1966. thought and activities of Daniel and Philip Berrlgan. Also Education: BA. MA Unlv. of Montana; Ph.D. Unlv. of studying the spirituality of pacifism in the Catholic Worker Washington. Educated In history and anthropology, movem ent. currently employed by US Census In Seattle. Publisher of Black Heron Press, a small literary press. Author of The David Kuobrich, American Studies Program. George Negligence of Death. Of Great Spaces, and several Mason Unlv., Fairfax. VA 22030. Research project: stories published In small magazines. Ongoing interests: Response of American churches to the Vietnam War. poverty, social dislocation, war and Its effects, literature. Judy Kugobrass, Field and International Study, College of Ronald J. Grele. Box 20. Butler Ubrary. Columbia Unlv.. Human Ecology,Cornell Unlv.,Ithaca.NY 14853. Involved New York. NY 10027. Director of the Oral History Research In research and support for Southeast Aslan refugee O ffice. communities. Visited Vietnam and Kampuchea with the US-Indochlna Reconciliation Project in August, 1988. Bryan K. Grigsby. 28 Jade Lane. Cherry Hill. NJ 08002. US Army Photographer 1967-1970 (Dept, of Army Special Andrew F. Lewandowskl, Berks County Vietnam Memorial Photo Office, DASPO). Currently Photo/Assignments Editor Commission,Inc..POBox4222.Mt.Penn.PA 19606. Trying of Philadelphia Inquirer. South New Jersey edition. BS in to locate anyone who served with Kilo, 34d Br., 4th Marine Broadcasting from Unlv. of Florida (1971). Has continued Reg., 3rd Mar. Dlv. In 1968 (April through September) and to photograph Vietnam-related events over the past who served with Alpha Co. or 1st Co.. 3rd Combined twenty years for a personal project. Action Group (especially CAP—3-1.6).

Hanh Thl Pham, 1285 W. Cheshire St.. Rialto. CA 92376. A Edward T. Unenthal. Dept, of Religious Studies, Unlv. of Saigon bom artist, working now on East and West Wisconsin at Oshkosh. Oshkosh, Wl 54901. Teaches a totalitarianism and the exile experience of cultural course on 'Religion and the Impact of Vietnam.* Author adaptattonand resistance. Artmedia: photography and o f Changing Images of the Warrior Hero In America painted Installation; video of performed poems. (1982); Symbolic Defense: The Cultural Significance o f the Stra tegic D efense Initia tive (Illinois. 1989), and currently at Larry G. Marred and David Fumlss. English Department. work on Reservoirs o f Spiritual Power: The Cultural Functions Unlv. of Wisconsin—River Falls. River Falls. Wl 54022. of American Battlefields.

Mark Heberie, Dept, of English, Unlv. of Hawaii at Manoa, James C. Utz, 1724 Como-Park Blvd.. Depew, NY 14043 Honolulu. HI 96821. Currently working on the Vietnam (716) 681-6776. Served In Vietnam In the First Air Cavalry 'Darkness' trilogy of Takeshi Kalko. Request for Help: Infa ntry unit in 1968. Began a painting career In 1981 .and W o iid appreciate Inform ation about Kalko or his w ork, as Is today ranked with the best contemporary Primitive- well as other Japanese representations of the war. Naive artists.

- 7 - Dennis Rockstroh, 3573 Tankeriand Court, San Jose, CA Pilar Marin, Avda. de la Borbolla 73, Seville, Spain 41013. Is 95121. Journalist for the San Jose-Mercuy News. Teaches Interested collecting descriptions of works-lrvprogress and English. Journalism, and the history of the American war In notices of upcoming events and conferences. Vietnam. He served in the US Army In Vietnam from 1964- 1965, was a teacher and Journalist in Vietnam from 1967 to Leah Melnlck, Box 766 Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 1971, and returned to Vietnam In 1987 and 1988. 01002, (413) 549-0676. Has been photographing, writing about and collecting oral histories of Khmer refugees In Chaim Shatan, M.D., 415 Central Park W., New York City Bronx, New York and Amherst, Massachusetts, In an 10025 (212) 865-9482. or Box 1752, Lenox. MA 01240 (413) attempt to photographically compare resettlement 298-3038. Has worked with World War 2 veterans, and experiences In two diverse community environments. with Vietnam combat veterans as a Rap Group organizer, Combines photography with volunteer social service work therapist and writer. Formed Vietnam Vets Working Group in order to dlrectty address the humanitarian concerns to prepare formulations on what was later called Post that Initiated the documentary. Through photographs, Traumatic Stress Disorder for D SM 3. Particular Interests she hopes to create a historical and education record of are: the Impact of man-made cruelty (stress) on human the experiences of a community of holocaust survivors beings, the dimorphic emotional development promoted from the Pol Pot regime In Cambodia and the process of In men and women In most of Western civilization, the rebuilding the ir Hves In the United States. To work for peace nature of manhood; and the psychology of combat — as and Increase public awareness and concern for the exemplified In war, literature, and clinical work. Sample prevention of war. It Is Important to understand and bibliography available, Include 'Bogus Manhood, Bogus become sensitive to the people living In our own Honor: Surrender & Transfiguration In the US Marine Corps.* neighborhoods and communities who have been 'Through the Membrane of Reality: 'Impacted Grief' and damaged by war. These photos powerfully communicate Perceptual Dissonance in the Vietnam Combat Veteran," this experience while bringing the Issue closer to home by 'Militarized Mourning & Ceremonial Vengeance," 'The examining how Khmers are rebuilding and healing John W ayne Image & the Language of Grief: Happiness spiritually, culturally. and personally In the US. Her work has Is a Warm Gun," 'Uvlng in a Split Time Zone: Trauma 8t been published in Ufe, Dissent. New York Daily News. New Therapy of Vietnam Combat Survivors." 'Have You York Nichlbel. USA Today and The Permanent Press. The Hugged a Vietnam Veteran Today? The Basic Wound of project has received several awards and has been Catastrophic Stress". exhibited In New York and Massachusetts. Richard Sobel, Department of Political Science, Univ. of Michael Milne, National Commander, Veterans of the Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06268. Working on the Impact of Vietnam War, Inc,, 2090 Bald Mt. Rd., Wilkes-BarTe. PA public opinion and protest on US policy during the Vietnam 18702-9609. W NW Is a national veterans organization W ar. which works on Issues such as Agent Orange. POW-MIAs, Job counseling, and PTSD. There are approximately 125 Jerold StarT. 115 Mayfair Dr.. Pittsburgh. PA 15228, (412) posts. 341-1967. Director of the Center for Social Studies Education. Organizing a nation-wide campaign to Joan Morrison, 64 Spring Brook Rd., Morristown, NJ 07960. promote teaching of the Vietnam War In secondary Co-Author of From Camelotto Kent State: An Oral History schools and colleges. This includes Its 1988 publication. o f the 796Qs(TlmesBooks. 1987). Teaches a course on the The Lessons of the Vietnam War: A Modular Textbook, and 1960s at The New School for Social Research In New York Its program. Teaching the Vietnam War: A Teacher- City. She and her co-author, Robert K. Morrison, have Veteran Partnership. In collaboration with Vietnam lectured on the subject and given readings from the book Veterans of America and Educators for Social at a num ber of colleges and universities. Responsibility.

Novelll, Martin, Faculty for Humanities, Unlv. of the Arts, Matthew C. Stewart, Humanities, College of Basic Studies. Broad and Pine Sts., Philadelphia, PA 19102. Teaches an Boston Untv., Boston, MA 02215. Dissertation on novels Interdisciplinary course titled 'Images of Vietnam*. Has and prose works, esp. Dispatches. In Country. Meditations participated in a Vietnam curriculum development project In Green. Short-Timers. Cacclato. Examines the at Rutgers Unlv., and has written a chapter on Vietnam particularities of different styles and aesthetics as efforts to war films for US and Vietnam: Popular Culture and Media. make sense of Vietnam. Title: Making Sense of Chaos: which will be published In London In 1989. Prose Writing. Fictional Kind and the Reality o f Vietnam. Currently at work on the language of brutalization and Oscar Patterson III, 3459 Brushy Hill Road, Fayetteville, NC dehumanization. Enjoy Interdisciplinary approaches. 28306. Interested In all aspects of the Vietnam War. Ph.D. dissertation dealt with media coverage of war. Recent Amy Swerdlow, Women's Studies, Sarah Lawrence research Into drug problems among dependents of US College. Bronxvllle. NY 10708. Teaching a course on the personnel In Thailand. Serves as editor of the Amerlcal US In the 1960s. Writing a book on Women Strike for Peace Division Veterans Association Newsletter. called The Political Motherhood: Female Culture and Radical Politics.

- 8 - Barbara Timmons. UMI Research Press. 300 N. Zeeb Rd., American Audio Pros® Library, PO Box 842. Colum bia, MO Ann Arbor. Ml 48106. (800) 345-9084 or (313) 973-9821 x. 65205. 758. Editing a new series called Challenging the Literary Has recorded interviews and readings by various Canon for UMI Press. contemporary American literary figures. Including a number of authors of Vietnam literature. These Dr. John E. Trlmpey, Humanities and American Studies. cassettes are Inexpensive, and Invaluable Carriage House B, Untv. of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN resources. Their catalogue Includes Interviews 37403. Travelled to Vietnam over Christmas. Has with, and readings by. Philip Caputo, Larry established working relationships with some Vietnamese Heinemann. Huynh Quang Nhuong, Robert Stone, scholars — exchanging books, reports, journals, etc. Is Diane Johnson, Bobbie Arm Mason, Carolyn happy to share with anyone, and recommend contact to Forch6, Gloria Emerson, and Ward Just. (VG) verify what came of the trip. He's Interested In anything Aspen Institute, Wye Center. PO Box 222. Queenstown. official from any government concerning the US-Vietnam MD 21658. relationship, during the war era and now. Indochina Policy Forum, Recommendations for the New Administration on United States Policy Toward David A. Willson, Green River Community College. 12401 Indochina. 1988 . SE 320th St.. Auburn. WA 98002 (206) 833-9111 x.408. Atlantic Monthly Press, 19 Unton Square West, New York, Vietnam veteran, author of REMF Diary: A Novel of the NY 10003. Vietnam War Zone. Currently teaching a course, “The Adams. James. Secret Armies: Inside the American. Vietnam War and the Media.' As reference librarian, he Soviet, and European Special Forces. 1987 Is building a collection called The Joe Hooper Vietnam ($19.95),ISBN 0-87113-223-0. Ada ms. the Defense War Uterature Collection. He Is organizer of the annual Correspondent for The Sunday Times o f London, Vietnam War Writers Symposium at GRCC. Work In offers an Inside took at such secret military progress: 'Nam Porno." a paper to be presented at the organizations as the ISA and the Delta Force in PCA conference In St. Louis, MO, April 5-8.1989. Request the US; the Spetsnaz forces of the USSR; and the for help: Any Information on pornography using the SAS in G reat Brita in, and show s how these 'se c re t Vietnam War as context or backdrop. armies" have been Involved in nearly every case of sustained armed conflict around the globe Wlmmer. Adi, English & American Studies, University of since World War 2. Adams portrays US Special Klagenfurt.Klagenfurt.Austrla A-9022. Currently engaged Forces as lagging far behind those of other in research on the effectsof the Vietnam War on American countries. He gives a detailed evaluation of literature and culture. He also teaches courses on Vietnam Grenada, showing that this action was a War poetry and Vietnam War films at the University of complete disaster. In which every one of the tasks (Oagenfurt. given to the US Special Forces to perform either failed with heavy toss of life or succeeded by Books ANd Audio Ma t e r IaI s accident. Welgl, Bruce. Song o f Napalm . 1988 ($13.95). ISBN 0- C urren tly n P r Int 871134-241-9. The Nation has called Weigl's I poems 'some of the finest In our language." In this collection Weigl gives us an Indelible record This special section will be featured at least of Vietnam, of the aching beauty of the jungle once a year. Because it is so difficult for everyone to Juxtaposed with the repulsiveness of war. of keep up to date on the large amount of material society's collective battle scars that can never currently available in the field, we have compiled a heal. The poems collected here represent an list of publishers and distributors of relevant works, unfolding of consciousness about the Vietnam and given mailing addresses, ordering information War. Weigl's poems are an extraordinary testament to ordinary people experiencing hell and prices whenever we have them. Not all of these on earth. (His title poem, 'Song of Napalm." Is works deal directly with the Vietnam generation. one of the strongest and most moving literary Some of them, like the works on the Holocaust, are works about the war. (VG)) useful for those interested In comparative studies. Avon Books. 105 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Capsule reviews are included under the entries for Barron, John, Breaking the Ring: The Rise and Fan of some of these works. All those not labelled *(VG)' the Walker Family Spy Network. 1987 ($3.95), ISBN are provided by the promoters of these products. If 0-380-70520-6. you have information which belongs in this column, Hadley. Arthur T.. The Straw Giant: America's Armed please send it along to us. We will return to our Forces: Triumphs and Failures. 1987 ($ 10.95), ISBN regular book reviews in the next issue. (Film will be 0-380-70391-2. reviewed in a seperate filmography - forthcoming.) Ballinger Press, a division of Harper and Row, 54 Church St., Harvard Sq., Cambridge, MA 02138-3730. Riche Ison. Jeffrey 1.. The US Intelligence Community.

- 9 - 1985 ($16.95). ISBN 0-88730-025-1. and Foreign Evangelista, Matthew. Innovation and the Arms Race: Intelligence Organizations. 1988 ($16.95), ISBN 0- How the United States and the Soviet Union 88730-122-3. Develop New Military Technologies. 1988, ISBN 0- Basic Books, 105 E 53rd St.. New York. NY 10022 8014-1958-1. Evangelista contends that the US Me Quad. Kim, The Anxious Years: America In the usually leads In Introducing new military Vletnam-Watergate Era. 1989 ($19.95), ISBN 0- technology, while the Soviets must typically react 465-00389-3. A history that confronts the to American Initiatives. He develops a framework Institutional failures, political evasions and employing the theoretical Insights of political constitutional crises of the 1960s and 1970s, and economy. economics,and organizational theory. show s that Te t, Chicago, and W atergate are the He concludes that the processes of weapons landmarks of a single military and political disaster. Innovation In the two nations differ fundamentally: Vietnam was the hinge on which everything else In the US Impetus for Innovation comes 'from the swung.according to McQuald. McQuaid points bottom," at the Initiative of corporate or out that Nixonltes concocted Watergate government researchers and military officials, specifically to punish both real and Imagined whereas the centralized Soviet system processes enemies In and outside of the Democratic Party, Innovations "from the top* In response to foreign In and outside of the antiwar movement, whom developments. Evangelista presents a detailed Nixon blam ed fo r the debacle of Vietnam as w ell study of the pivotal American and Soviet decisions as for his own periodic humiliations in American to develop tactical nuclear weaponsand deploy politics. them In Europe In the 1950s. Black Heron Press, PO Box 95676, Seattle, WA 98145. Huyen Kim Khdn. Vietnamese Communism. 1925- Gold. Jerome. The Negligence o f Death. 1984 ($7.95). 1945.1982, ISBN 0-8014-9397-8. The author traces ISBN 0-930773-00-4. the Vietnamese Communist movement from its Willson. David. REMF Diary. 1988 ($8.95), ISBN 0-930773- Inception In 1925 to Its victory In 1945. 06-3. Rotter, Andrew, The Path to Vietnam: Origins of the Bowling Green State Unlv. Popular Press, Bowling Green, American Commitment to Southeast Asia. 1987, OH 43403. ISBN 0-8014-1958-1. Rotter places the US decision Anlsfield. Nancy (ed.), Vietnam Anthology: American to assist Vietnam in the context of American War Literature. 1987 ($11.95), ISBN 0-87972-396-3. foreign policy, looking In particular at the Geared to classes dealing with the Vietnam War dilemmas facing US policymakers In 1949. He or Vietnam War literature In a short unit. (VG) asserts that the policymakers, concerned about Searle. William J.. (ed.). Search and Clear: Critical the victory of the Communists in China, the Responses to Selected Literature and Film s o f the persistent economic difficulties of Japan and Vietnam War. 1988, ISBN 0-87972-429-3. Critical Great Britain, and the fragmentation of Western anthology containing essays by a group of writers Europe, sought to revive Southeast Asia who will be familiar to those In the Popular Culture economically and to Inoculate It against circuit. (VG) Communist expansion as part of a broader Cambridgeport Press, 14 Chalk St., Cambridge, MA 02139. American effort to reconstruct the global political Whlttemore, Thomas, The Vietnam War: A Text for economy following World War 2. By the time the Students. 1988 ($10.75), ISBN 0-944348-00-9. This Korean War broke out in June 1950, Rotter text is a simplistic and reductive summary of the concludes, the US had In place sophisticated war geared toward the Junior high level A major policy designed not only to support and defend problem Is Its complete lack of bibliographic colonialism in Southeast Asia but also to ensure notations, and Its tendency to narrate, rather the recovery of the developed. non-Communlst than to explore, the historic events of the era. w orld. Political tendencies a n from the lukewarm liberal CQ Pres*, 1414 22nd St. NW. Washington. DC 200376. to the downright conservative, and It carefully Lomperts.Timothy. The War Everyone Lost—And Won, caters to the current social and political climate: 1984, ISBN 0-87187-409-1. Lomperts examines the '(D)rugs became a major symbol of the youth struggle for political power In Vietnam as a conflict revolt. Marijuana and LSD were the most popular fought on two distinct levels for two separate drugs, and their use spread from the more audiences—one Vietnamese and the other wocked-out (sic) rebels Into middle class America. global. In Vietnam, It was a 45-year contest for Uttle about the harmful effects of these drugs was political legitimacy between Vietnamese then recognized, with many young people Nationalists and Communists. Internationally. It believing that their parents' main drug, alcohol, was a duel between America's foreign policy of was far more dangerous. Besides, not everyone containment and the Communist strategy of claimed to care. The Who summed up the mood Maoist people's war. of many young people wtth their lyrics. “Hope I die Delacorte Press, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell before I get o ld " (p.85). (VG) Publishing Group, 1 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza. New York, Cornell Unlv. Press. 124 Roberts PI., Ithaca. NY 14850. NY 10017.

- 10- Allen, Thomas B., & Norman Polmar. Merchants of and officials from the Pentagon. CIA, NSC, NSA, Treason: America's Secrets for Sale from the White House. Justice [department and State Pueblo to the Present. 1988 ($19.95). ISBN 0-385- Department, this Is the story of how the Pentagon, 29591-X. An adamantly Cold War volume disgusted at the failure of the 1980 Iran hostage dedicated to proving that ‘our nation's most rescue attempt, decided It could no longer trust secret materials are being sold at an espionage the capabilities of the CIA and Instead set up a bazaar where the Soviets are the most frequent and generous buyers". TomClancy'senthusiastic ‘miniature CIA' within Its own walls. (Seymour Hersh wrote a review praising this book. (VG)) endorsement of the book (* ...should be required reodlng for every security officer In the United George Brazlller, 1 Park Ave.. New York. NY 10016 Carter, Hoddlng. The Reagan Years. 1988 ($17.50). States') signals quite clearly the authors' pro-CIA ISBN 0-8076-1209-X. Grouped thematically and stance. (VG) Introduced by the author, these essays form a Mahoney. Tim. W e 're N ot There. 1988 ($7.95). ISBN 0- 440-55004-1. A second novel by the author of journal of American life over the past 8 years. They are not limited to critiques of the president Halloran's World War. The press release states and his men. The long-term effects of that this novel * Is the story of what happens when Reaganomics on the poor, the status of blacks generals push pins on a map as though It were a after Jesse Jackson, and the current state of the gam e." media are among the topics he also examines. Dell Books, 1 Dag Hammarskjold PI., New York. NY 10017 Nolan, Keith William. Into Laos: The Story of Dewey Glosser. Ronald. 365 Days. 1971 ($7.95), ISBN 0-8076- 0995-1. Reissueofthe classic narrative of a doctor Canyon 2/Lam Son 719. Vietnam 1971. 1986 stationed in Japan, who worked with Americans ($4.95). ISBN 0-440-20044-X. wounded in Vietnam. O'Brien, Tim. If I Die In a Combat Zone. 1973 ($4.50), Greenwood/Praeger, 88 Post Road West. Westport, CT ISBN 0-440-34311-9. The classic autobiography has been reissued. 1 understand that Dell will 06881. publish a second revised version of O'Brien's Auster, Albert, & Leonard Quart, How the War was Remembered: Hollywood and Vietnam. 1988, Going After Cacciato later this year. (VG) ISBN 0-275-92479-3. An Intelligent and acute Donald I Fine, Inc., 128 East 36th St.. New York. NY 10016. analysis of the Vietnam film and the Hollywood Bradlee. Ben Jr., Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of scene. Don't miss it If this is your area. (VG) Oliver North. 1988 ($21.95). ISBN 1-55611-053-7. Basford. Christopher, The Spit-Shine Syndrome: According to the press release. Bradlee focuses Organizational Irrationality In the American Field on ‘Oliver North and his direct and Indirect Involvement In US foreign policy and operations Arm y. 1988. ISBN 0-313-26215-2. Analysis of Army organization by a 33-year military man. and the acts that led to his dismissal from the Cecil. Paul Frederick, Herblcldal Warfare: The Ranch White House...and. ultimately, the recent Hand Project In Vietnam. 1986 ($29.95). ISBN 0- Indictments against him handed down by the grand jury." Because of the depressing turn of 275-92007-0. This is the history of the herbicidal operation—code named Ranch Hand—In events In the Iran-Contra prosecutions, readers Vietnam. It describes how the operation might be too dispirited to plow their way through dispensed over 11 million gallons of chemicals the 550+ pages of this well-researched pop culture over Southeast Asian jungles and croplands. cash-ln. (VG) Mltgang. Herbert. Dangerous Dossiers: Exposing the Based on the author's experiences, hundreds of Interviews with Ranch Hand veterans, and Secret War Against America's Greatest Authors, research of primary sources, this book provides a 1988 ($ 18.95). ISBN 1 -55611 -077-4. A very fine and view of the men who flew the missions. It also unusual book which explores the pattern of FBI reviews the scientific reaction to herbicidal surveillance of American writers. Mltgang does a good job of pointing out the ridiculousness of warfare and how the controversy that ensued most of the ‘Intelligence" gathered on these eventually caused the cancellation of the operation. Cecil views chemical herbicides as writers, and the unpleasant Implications of secret viable, useful weapons in conflicts Involving a files maintained by a government agency. guerrilla environment, while also citing justifiable EP Dutton, 2 Park Avenue. New York, NY 10016. criticism of several elements of the program as It Currey, Richard. Fatal Light. 1988 ($16.95). ISBN 0- was practiced In Vietnam. 525-24622-3. First novel by this Vietnam veteran Dietz, Terry, Republicans and Vetnam. 1961-1966. author. Many people have good things to say 1986 ($29.95). ISBN 0-313-24892-3. Dietz's book about Currey's book. Including Tim O'Brien portrays Republicans as ‘the loyal opposition to GP Putnam's Sons, 200 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016. the conduct of the Vietnam War from 1961 to Emerson, Steve, Secret Warriors: Inside the Covert 1968." Dividing his discussion Into two main areas Military Operations of the Reagan Era. 1988 of concentration, Dietz first discusses how the ($17.95). ISBN 0-399-13360-7. Based on Steven Emerson'saccesstourpublished documents and Republican Congressional leadership responded to American foreign policy vis-a-vis the expansion hundreds of Interviews with Intelligence agents

- 11- of communism, as well as a general review of the In the first Issue of the Newsletter. Republican position towards communism since Olson, James S. (ed.). Dictionary of the Vietnam War, 1945. A central theme is the Republican support 1988 ($65.). ISBN 0-313-24943-1. Includes more of the philosophical goals of American foreign than 900 brief descrlpttve essays on most of the policy In Vietnam but rejection of Johnson's people—political and military leaders as well as gradual and Incremental military strategy for antiwar activists, legislation, military operations achieving them. Dietz emphasizes that the and equipment, and controversies essential to a Republican leadership labored diligently to better understanding of the American create constructive alternatives to Administration participation In the Vietnam War. References at policy. the end of each entry provide access to sources Grlnter, Lawrence, & Peter M. Dum (eds.). The of additional Information. 5 appendixes are American War In Vietnam: Lessons. Legacies, Included, focusing on a description of the and Implications forFutire Conflicts. 1987 ($37.95), population of South Vietnam, the minority groups ISBN 0-313-25729-0. According to the promotional of South Vietnam, a glossary of slang expressions literature: ‘The essays In this collection were and acronyms, a selected bibliography of the assembled to provide answers to the question of Vietnam War, and a chronology. why the policies and strategies of the US failed In Harper & Row, 10 East 53rd St.. New York. NY 10022. Vietnam. They examine four major factors that Caute, David, The Year o f the Barricades: A Journey affected US conduct: how the war was through 1968. 1988 ($24.95). ISBN 0-06-105870-0. perceived, how It was fought, the possible effect The tone of the book issummed up In the following of alternative strategies, and the legacy for future excerpt from the Introduction: "They marched, warfare. The contributors Include both military demonstrated, occupied universities, and officers and scholars, all but one of whom courted police repression...What were they— participated In the Vietnam War. All the authors courageous visionaries or romantic Utopians? reflect the more tempered nature of current Genuine revolutionaries or posturing spoiled Vietnam War scholarship.' Most of the essayists brats? An authentic resistance movement or a were present at the Indochina Institute frivolous carnival by kids who had never known Conference on Teaching the War last February poverty and the fear of unemployment? An (Washington, DC). If you are familiar with that Idealistic challenge to Imperialism ora pantomime particular crowd, you will not waste time looking of rhetorical gestures? A rebirth of the critical for left wing analyses in this particular collection. Intelligence or a long, drugged 'trip' Into (VG) fashionable incoherence? This book alms to Lewis, Uoyd B., The Tainted War: Culture and Identity provide a history that will yield tentative answers In Vietnam War Narratives. 1985 ($27.95), ISBN 0- to these questions." The best thing about this 313-23723-9. Lewis analyzes the processes through book is Its International approach to an which social reality Is constructed and subjectively understanding of the year. (VG) appropriated by Individuals. He attempts to Morris, Charles R., Iron Destinies. Lost Opportinlties: demonstrate how a war in Southeast Asia became The Arms Race Between the USA and the USSR. a young man's reality, how Americans found 1988 ($22.95). ISBN 0-06-039082-4. themselves compelled to scrap the cultural Salisbury, Harrison E..AUm e of Change: AReporter's knowledge they had been taught, how an Tale of Our Time. 1988 ($19.95), ISBN 0-06039083- Individual went from civilian to combat soldier 2. Reviewed In the first Issue of the Newsletter. and back again and was flung into a cultural Harvard Unlv. Press, 79 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138. twilight zone. To reconstruct their world view, W eart, Spencer R„ Nuclear Fear: A History of Images. Lewis dips Into the minds of the young men who 1988 ($29.50), ISBN 0-674-62835-7. The Imagery of witnessed It first hand. As they tell their stories, he nuclear bombs and reactors did not spread by focuses on the soclo-psychologlcal Itself; It was promoted by parflcJar people for consequences of their experiences. their own purposes. Drawing on materials ranging M acDonald, J . Fred , Television and the Red Menace: from one e-secret government documents to The Video Road to Vietnam. 1985 ($ 15.95), ISBN 0- comic books, from technical articles to works of 275-91807-6. Using a broad range of examples art, Weart tells the story of how and why a special from news broadcasts, public affairs, and set of images came to represent what everyone entertainment programming (Westerns and ‘knows' —or feels—about nuclear devices. cartoons among them), J. Fred MacDonald Harcourt Brace Jovanovlch, 111 Fifth A ve., New York, NY concludes that television helped to create a 10003. complacent public that did not question the Knox, Donald, The Korean War: F\jsan to Chosin, governmental policies that led the country Into 1985 ($10.95), ISBN 0-15-647200-7. Drawing on his Vietnam . Interviews with hundreds of veterans of Korea— Mayo, James M., War Memorials as Political from riflemen to commanding officers—Knox Landscape, 1988, ISBN 0-275-92812-8. Reviewed

- 12- weaves personal stories with regimental records Company Commander's Journal. 1988 ($3.95). and ships’ logs to crate a day-by-day chronicle ISBN 0-8041-0187-6. Autobiographical volumes of the war's first months of fighting: June to by a career officer in the US Army. December, 1950. Johns Hopkins Unlv. Press, 701 W 40th St., Suite 275. Hill 4 Wang, 10 Union Sq. W, New York, NY 10003. Baltimore. MD 21211. Scheer. Robert, Thinking Tuna Fish. Talking Death: Krepinevich, Andrew F. Jr., The Army and Vietnam. Essays on the Pornography of Power, ~\ 958 9.95). 1986. ISBN 0-8018-3657-3. Intelligent and ISBN 0-8090-9316-2. Gathers together 21 of Interesting analysis of the principles which guided Scheer's essays and articles. Including his the US Army's actions in the Vietnam War. controversial profile of the Jews of Los Angeles, Krepinevich claims that the Army's failure In his Interview with Orlana Fallacl, and his Vietnam is directly linked to its inability to visualize examination of Gorbachev and the new Soviet warfare in any terms other than the "Army elite. The title of the book Is taken from a piece Concept' — the belief that the mid-intensity war that describes a gathering of nuclear eggheads (such as World War 2 and Korea) Is the most at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory In California. Important war to prepare for and to conduct. Scheer listens to (and faithfully records) The counterinsurgency strategies which participants munching on tu x i fish sandwiches Krepinevich promotes are familiar: Isolating the while thoughtfully discussing the pros and cons of population from guerrilla infiltration and retaliation nuclear ‘city busting." The exercise of power, and a policy which convinces the population Scheer finds. Is frequently pornographic. that support of the current regime is to their Holmes 4 Meier, 30 Irving PL, New York, NY 10003. benefit. In addition, the successful Lang, Berel (ed.). Writing and the Holocaust. 1988 counterinsurgency must utilize local paramilitary (S19.95), ISBN 0-8419-1185-1. Collection of essays groups, and ensure that government troops are by the finest critics of Holocaust literature. concentrated on "asserted government control Extremely useful for those Interested In over the population and winning its support.' comparative examination of Vietnam war Krepinevich takes issue with those (such as Richard literature. Nixon, William Westmoreland, and Harry Summers) Howard Unlv. Press, 2900 Van Ness St. NW, Washington, who assert that the Vietnam War could have DC 20008. been won If only the American Congress and Davis. George, Coming Home 1971 ($6.95), ISBN 0- people had backed the war strongly enough, 88258-118-X. A well-deserved reissue of one of providing enough money, troops, and firepower. the few black novels about Vietnam. Make sure The most striking absence In this book is any you buy a copy this time around. (VG) attempt at moral judgement on the war, or on Indiana Unlv. Press, 10th & Morton Sts., Bloomington, IN counterinsurgency wars In general. Though the 47405. arguments In this book lead strongly to the Avisar, llan. Screening the Holocaust: Cinema's conclusion that counterinsurgency warfare can Images of the Unimaginable. 1988. ISBN 0-253- be successfully fought, the ethical problems of 20475-5. This Is a fine book to use for building a fighting a war against a popular resistance comparative methodology between Holocaust movement are never dealt with. If the population and Vietnam war films. (VG) believed In the guerrilla cause. Kreplnevich's Johnson, Charles. Being & Race: Black Writing Since strategy would Inevitably fail unless the 197 0.1988 ($15.95), ISBN0-253-31165-9. conquering force practiced the strongest form of Rosenfeld, Alvin H., A Double Dying: Reflections on repression, keeping the people under literal lock Holocaust Literature. 1980, ISBN 0-253-20492-5. and key In the strongest form of military One of the strongest works on Holocaust I Itera lure . dictatorship. Perhaps, In an attempt to avoid this (VG) sticky point, Krepinevich chose to deal only with Young, Ja mes E.. Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust: Vietnam, and not to draw conclusions from Narrative and the Consequences of American military and military support policy In El Interpretation. 1988, ISBN 0-253-36716-6. Has great Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. (VG) bearing on the reading and Interpretation of Lawrence E riba urn, Inc., 365 Broadway, Suite 102. Hillsdale. Vietnam War narratives by combat veterans. NJ 07642. (VG) Boulanger. Ghlslalne & Charles Kadushln, The Ivy Books/Ballantine, a division of Random House. New Vietnam Veteran Redefined: Fact and Fiction. York. NY 10022. 1986, ISBN 0-89859-761 -7. Anthology of psychiatric Clark. Johnnie M.. Guns U p l. 1984 ($3.50), ISBN 0-345- and social science articles on Post Traumatic 31507-3. Personal narrative by a disabled Marine Stress Disorder and readjustment. veteran. Little Sun, PO Box 1850. Monrovia, CA 91016. Lannlng. Michael Lee. The Only War We Had: A Scaff. William, Bong Son Blues. 1969. An unusual Platoon Leader's Jounal of Vietnam, 1987 ($3.50). audio cassette, recorded In and around Bong ISBN 0-8041-0005-5 and Vietnam. 1969-1970: A Son, Northern Binh Dlnh Province, Republic of

- 13- Vietnam. 1969. on a Sony portable cassette Interviews with men of the Vietnam Generation, recorder. The quality of these recordings Is not this book examines the social, psychological, good, and It Is frequently difficult to distinguish and political effects of the war. The interviews one cut from another, but some of the material Is reveal an enduring Influence of the war on fascinating. Scoff has recorded Malaysian Vietnam veterans, especially those exposed to mercenaries. ARVN soldiers. Vietnamese children, the killing, dying, and brutality of warfare. The and samples of Aslan radio programming. The analysis shows that the war Is perceived by a best segment on the tape, however. Is a rambling substantial majority. Including a plurality of rap titled 'The Mother Fucker (Joe Blow, the Vietnam veterans as a grave mistake. Vietnam Kokomo)'. Listen to It, and then re-read the veterans as well as their peers generally see a section In Hasford's The Short-Tim ers where Joker need for legal constraints on the conduct of attempts to tell the squad a funny story. (VG) future wars, and a solid majority of the Vietnam Uttte, Brown, 34 Beacon St.. Boston, MA 02108-9990. veterans say they oppose future Interventions like Boettcher. Thomas. Vietnam: The Valor and the Vietnam . So rro w . 1985 ($16.95), ISBN 0-316-10081-1. Macmillan Publishers, 866 Third Ave., New York, NY 10022. Boettcher contends that rather than getting us Cagin. Seth & Philip Dray, We Are Not Afraid: The Into Vietnam, the military tried to keep us out. Story of Goodman. Schwerner. and Chaney and They knew, he asserts, better than Kennedy's the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi. 1988 Harvard educated, self-styled military strategists ($22.50), ISBN 0-02-520260X. from the civilian sector, what the obstacles were. Hutcheson. Richard G. Jr., God in the White House: and how unprepared we were for the kind o f war How Religion has Changed the Modern we would have to fight there. Boettcher Presidency. 1988 ($ 18.95). ISBN 0-02-557760-3. Can distinguishes between the lessons the US intended a president successfully practice his faith In the to teach In Vietnam and those we were forced to Oval Office? Are there dangers to the separation learn about wars of national liberation. (A rather of church and state? Is religion entirely a private novel approach to military apologia. (VG)) matter with no implications for political activity? Dye, Dale. Outrage: A Novel of Beirut. 1988 ($17.95), Can a sectarian president lead a stubbornly ISBN 0-316-20010-7. A book In the worst of the de pluralistic democracy? This book suggests that Borchegrave. Moss, and Clancy disinformation the vigorous entry of religion Into the councils of tradition. Read It and weep. (VG) the presidency is a response to the Goodwin, Richard N., Remembering America: A multidimensional moral crisis of the late twentieth Voice from the Sixties. 1988 ($19.95), ISBN 0316- century, compounded of Vietnam. Watergate, 32024-2. A Kennedy staff member from 1959, and the overturning of traditional values in the Goodwin was among the very few Kennedy men turmoil of the sixties. (Watch out, all you secular Invited by Lyndon Johnson to Join his circle of humanists out there. (VG)) advisers. After leaving the White House at the Madison Books, 4720 Boston Way, Lanham. MD 20706. end of 1965, Goodwin developed a personal Hannah.NormanB.,7he KeytoFailure: Laosandthe and political association with Robert Kennedy. Vietnam War. 1987 ($19.95). ISBN 08191^54402. He joined Eugene McCarthy In New Hampshire In Another right-wing revisionist fantasy which posits his campaign for an end to the Vietnam War a world where victory in Vietnam would have after breaking with the administration on the been possible (for *us") if we had only rolled right Issue. When Johnson withdrew from the primary Into Laos, and declared a proper war. Gets race. Goodwin rejoined Kennedy for his glowing praise from Hany Summers, Jr.. William F. cam paign. Buckley, and William P. Bundy. (VG) Kunhardt, Philip B. (ed,).Ufeln Cameiot: The Kennedy MIT Press, 55 Hayward St.. Cambridge, MA 02142. Years. 1988 ($40). ISBN 0-316-21089-7. Opening Flink.JamesJ., The Automobile Age, 1988($25.). ISBN wide hlsdoors to Life Magazine. Kennedy allowed 0262-06111-2. A critical survey of the an extraordinary picture history to be made of his development of automotive technologyand the years In Washington. This book Includes more automotive Industry, and an analysis of the social than 500 photographs—over 150 of them effects of 'automoblllty' on both workers and previously unpublished. consumers. TheemphasisIsontheUS.theworid's ME Sharpe, Inc., 80 Business Park Dr., Armonk, NY 10504. foremost automobile culture, with developments A b lin, David & Marlowe Hood (ed s.). The Cambodian In the rest of the world analyzed to Illuminate the A gony. 1987 ($35.). ISBN 0-87332-399-8. Scholars American experience. address the major Issues facing Cambodia and Naval Institute Press, Annapolis. MD 21402. the politics of Indochina since the overthrow of Cutler, Thomas J.. Brown Water. Black Berets. 1988 the Pol Pot regime In 1978. ($21.95), ISBN 087021-011-4. Cutler provides a Frey-Wouters, Ellen & Robert S. Laufer, Legacy o f a detailed account of the development and War: The American Soldier In Vietnam. 1986 operation of the Navy's brown-water fleet right ($32.50). ISBN 087332-354-8. Based on over 1200 ip to the Vietnamization programs in effect during

- 14- the US troop withdrawal from Southeast Asia. characters who personify good and evil and uses New York Unlv. Press, 136 South Broadway, Irvington, NY metaphors, myths, and anecdotes to convince 10533. the public his way is the only Just and moral way. Basinger, Jeanlne. The World War 2 Combat Film: He reduces questions about economic planning. Anatomy of a Genre. 1986 ($30.). ISBN 0-231- constitutional Interpretation, and national 05952-3. Basinger traces the evolution of the defense to their most basic emotional level. He WW2 combat film through Its various stages. forces his public to choose between the forces of Establishing 1943's Bataan as typical, she reveals evil (his foes) and the forces of good (the Reagan how elements In this film—characters, settings, administration). narrative structure, film technique, and cultural Noonday Press, 19 Union Sq. W, New York, NY 10003. attitudes—were adapted from prior films and Dunrance. Dick, Where War Lives: A Photographic then readapted and modified for later movies. Journal of Vietnam. 1988 ($14.95), ISBN 0-374- The genre’s first films told stories based on the real 52129-8/1445. A moving and unusual collection events taking place In the news of the day, but of war photographs. Introduced by Ron Kovic. later films told stories based on the earlier filmed Durance has a terrific eye for a strong shot. (VG) versions of those same events. She indicates how Orion Books, a division of Crown Publishers, 225 Park Ave. the primary format is changed after the war, how S, New York. NY 10003. It Is Influenced by the Korean and Vietnam wars, Broughton.Jack.Go/ngDownfown: TheWarAgainst how documentaries help shape It, and how, Hanoi and Washington. 1988 ($ 18.95), ISBN 0-517- after a period of epic re-creation. It ultimately 56738-5. Tom Wolfe's fawning Introduction becomes dominated by parodies and films Indicates his wholehearted acceptance of the showing Inverted or satirical verslonsof the original Judgement of this man with "the right stuff': stories. Contains an annotated filmography. "(Broughton's) angry charge In this book is that Cable, Larry E.. Conflict of Myths: The Development America wasted (the fighter Jocks) shamefully In of American Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Vietnam by not letting them fight hard enough.' the Vietnam War. 1988 ($ 15.), ISBN 0-8147-1401 -3. Just another stab-lrvthe-back story. (VG) Cable contends that the American under­ Oxford Unlv. Press, 200 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016. standing of guerrilla war and the m llltary’sdoc trine Jamieson, Kathleen Hall, Packaging the Presidency: for fighting the two major and quite different A History and Criticism of Presidential Campaign typesof conflict—the Insurgent and the partisan— Advertising. 1984 ($12.95), ISBN 0 19-505656-6. which fall under that general term were the McAdam. Doug. Freedom Summer. 1988 (24.95), logical consequences of an Incorrect ISBN 0-19-504367. McAdam tracked down understanding of the experience. Further, he hundreds of the original project applicants to the claims, the military not only failed correctly to Freedom Summer campaign organized by SNCC appreciate the natue and quality of insurgent In 1964, and has combined hard data with a conflict but compounded this failure by believing wealth of personal recollections. One of that there existed general-purpose ground McAdam's most significant findings b that many combat forces equally capable of fighting of the participants in Freedom Summer have mechanized, nuclear battles and Insurgent remained activists to this day. conflicts. (Cable has apparently written this In M yers, Thom as. Walking Point: American Narratives response to Summers' arguments. (VG). of Vietnam. 1988, ISBN 0-19-505351 -6. Yetanother Durand, Maurice M. & Nguyen Tran Huan. translated critical survey of Vietnam War literature. This one, from the French by DM Hawke, An Introduction to though better written than most, also misses the Vietnamese literature. 1985 ($25), ISBN 0-231- boat. Why Is It that no critic feels It very Important 05852-7. Traces the development of literature in to make the distinction between the work of Vietnam from the earliest times to the reunification writers who are Vietnam veterans, and those who of the country In 1975. Period by period the are not Vietnam veterans? (VG) authors analyze Vietnamese literature In terms of Nichols. J. Bruce. The Uneasy Alliance: Religion. form,linguistic base,and the Interaction between Refugee Work, and US Foreign Policy. 1988 native features and outside Influence—Including ($24.95). ISBN 0-19-504274-3. After reviewing the Chinese colonization, European missionaries, history of US government relations with religious French occupation, and the US Army, all of which relief agencies, the author closely examines three left Indelible marks. politically explosive refugee situations: Honduras, Erickson. Paul D.. Reagan Speaks: The Making of an Thailand, and the Sudan. Treatment of American Myth. 1985 ($16.95). ISBN 0-6147-2167- Salvadoran and Guatemalan refugees has been 2. Erickson exposes the techniques used by greatly complicated by the conflicting attitudes Reagan and his staff to manipulate their of liberal religious groups and the US and audience. We see how Reagan skillfully alters Honduran governments. By contrast, an facts, makes history Into allegory, creates 'sto c k' evangelical group working with Loottan refugees In Thailand found Itself Inadvertently embroiled In

- 15- US policy debates over Laos and Vietnam. And looking at the Pocific War and Its ramifications. In the Sudan Nichols discovers close ties between Stem. Philip M., The Best Congress Money Can Buy. religious relief organizations and the US 1988 ($18.95). ISBN 0-394-56628-9. This volume Is government In the surreptitious and extralegal replete with examples and evidence of maneuvering to remove the Falashas to Israel. politicians' growing dependence on PACs and Nichols concludes that Increasing political and special Interests for their campaign funds. moral disagreement between the government Included are sections listing the largest PACs and and the religious community now threatens the a restaurant-style guide ranking each member of American tradition of worldwide humanitarian Congress from most to least dependent on assistance and a t the sam e tim e m irrors the w ider special-interest money. Stem doesn't hesitate to loss of consensus In American foreign policy. name names. Paterson.Thomas G.. Meeting the Communist Threat: Pergamon-Brassey’s International Defense Publishers, 8000 Truman to Reagan. 1988 ($24.95), ISBN 0-19- Westpark Dr., 4th floor, McLean, VA 22102-3101. 504533-5. Paterson expbres why and how Bowman. William, etal. (eds.), The All- Volunteer Force Americans have perceived and exaggerated After a Decade: Retrospect and Prospect, 1986. the Communist threat In the last half century. He ISBN 0-08-032409-6. offers a review of postwar American attitudes Matthews. Uoyd B.. et al. (eds.). Assessing the Vietnam toward totalitarianism, the causes of international War. 1987. ISBN 0-08-035181-6. A collection of conflict, and foreign aid, and he then essays from the US Army's War College. All the demonstrates how Truman acted upon these military types love this volume: Matthew views, launched the containment doctrine, and Ridgeway, Ronald Spector.and Douglas Klnnard. exercised American power In both Europe and General Bruce Palmer, Jr. wrote the Introduction. Asia. He continues with a look at Elsenhower's (VG) Middle East policy. Kennedy's foreign policy, CIA Moskos, Charles C. & Frank Wood (eds.). The M ilitary: covert actions, and the failure of congressional More than Just a Job? 1988.0-08-034321 -X. You oversight from the 1940s to the present. He also can get the drift from this promotional paragraph: examines Reagan's rewritten history of the *ln w hat has become a w orldw ide trend, service Vietnam War .and attacks the argument that the In the armed forces Is drifting from an institutional war could have been won. In his last chapter he form at to one resem bling a civilian occupation In probes the analogy between Vietnam and which many personnel are motivated by mere Central America In the 1980s. careerism. This book provides the defense Pacific Books. PO Box 558. Palo Alto. CA 94302. professional with a solid foundation on which to Lowenthal, Leo & Norbert Guterman. Prophets of base organizational and personnel policies. It Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American also has much to tell the general reader about A gitator. 1970 ($ 1.95) (Yes. really. They still have w hat life is re a lly like in to d a y's m ilita ry and how it some copies from the original printing.) This was can differ around the world." a 1970 revision of the original study, published In Tyro le r. C harles II (ed .). Alerting America: The Papers 1949. of the American demagogue. It explores of the Committee on the Present Danger. 1984, racist tactics employed by these politician In ISBN 0-08-031925-4. Well, here you go. Ifyouwant terms of anti-Semitism, and attacks on third world to know your enemy, this is where It's at. I read it peoples. Including Vietnamese and North a little at a time and Intersperse sections of this Koreans. (VG) book with good doses of fantasy or science Van Dyke. Jon M.. North Vietnam's Strategy for fiction to take the edge off. There's a great list In Survival. 1972($18.95).ISBN 0-87015-191-6. Analysis the front of the book which names members of of the effect of the war on North Vietnamese life, the Committee and their posts In the Reagan with particular emphasis on the evacuation of government. Don't just shrug your shoulders. Pick people and Industry from the dtles to the rural this one up; It's an Important document. (VG) areas, the labor shortages caused by the Increase Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends, 1515 Cherry St., In the size of the army and by the need for Philadelphia. PA 19102. manpower to repair transportation routes, and Jackson. Laura (producer). After Our War. How Will the changes which have been necessitated In Love Speak?. ($50 video). This half-hour the country's agricultural and Industrial sectors. documentary, made for public television. Pantheon Books, a division of Random House. New York, Interviews Vietnam writers: John Bala ban, Lady NY 10022. Borton. Arthur Egendorf, Bill Ehrhardt. Jerry Genesio Dower, John W ., War Without Mercy: Race & Power and Wally Terry. The writers talk about coming to In the Pacific War, 1986 ($9.95). ISBN 0-394-75172- terms with their experience of the war through 8. Drawing on American and Japanese songs, the books they have written. Scenes from the war slogans, cartoons, propaganda films, secret run as the writers read excerpts of their work. rep orts, and a w ealth o f other docum ents o f the time. Dower opens up a whole new way of

- 16- Q u ill Press, 105 Madison Ave.. New York, NY 10016. S p a rta n s, a nd Apocalypse Now. Th e Riche Ison. Jeffrey. American Espionage and the entirevolume will be Interesting to Vietnam So vie t Target. 1987 ($8.95). ISBN 0-688-7954-7. An generation scholars, but of particular note are account of how the US spies on the USSR. From chapters 6-9: ‘The Vietnam War Films." "The HUMINT (human Intelligence) to ground stations Forgotten Vietnam War Rim," ‘Superimposed to air and satellite reconnaissance to a whole Realities," and ‘The Australian War Film s'. (VG) smorgasbord of high-tech electronic survellonce Schocken Book*, 62 Cooper Sq., New York. NY 10003. techniques. Rlchelson describes Just how the CIA Lens, Sidney. Permanent War: The Militarization of and other Intelligence organizations find out what A m erica. 1987 ($18.95). ISBN 0-8052-4025-X. the Soviets are doing. Rlchelson suggests that the Completed shortly before Lens' death In 1986. Impetus to collect massive amounts of data and this book warns that the path of permanent war develop highly sophisticated collection systems waged since 1945 leads to losses far beyond has eclipsed the most Important function of an territorial boundaries and spheres of political Intelligence network: to provide the data and influence, to the corrosion of the foundations of analysis required to address the most Important our democratic society. He argues that the Issues of foreign, economic, and defense policy. weakening of our legal and moral values has led Recon Publications,PO Box 14602.Philadelphia, PA 19184. us to this crossroads. Lens Argues that the Vo Nguyen Glap. How We Won the W a r($5.). ISBN 0- ‘National Security State Is an authoritarian state 916894-01-0. Recon has republished this classic which has removed Itself from most popular text, which has been out of print since 1980. Get controls....To function as a democracy would your copies while they last. (VG) make It impossible to continue the war." Salem House, 462 Boston Street, Topsfield. MA 01983. Scribner’s, a division of Macmillan Publishing. 866 Third Steadman, Ralph. Scar-Strangled Banger. 1988 Ave.. New York. NY 10022. ($29.95). ISBN 0-88162-314-8. Steadman turns his Ledeen. Michael A.. Perilous Statecraft: An Insider's satirical attentions to America, the Land of the A ccount o f the Iran-C ontra A ffa ir. 1988 (S19.95). Free, where even God can be acquired with a ISBN 0-684-18994-1. The idea of Ledeen offering credit card. In this land of seemingly limitless to ‘tell a ll' about the Iran-Contra affair is pretty opportunities, of AII-NIte Uquor stores, aerobic amusing. The Fall 1984 Covert Action Information work-outs, silicone lifts, and Saturday Night Bulle tin describes him as ‘In tight with the Reagan Specials, a country where lettuce Is served with administration. (A) contract consultant on everything, he finds that the quality of life Is terrorism for the State Department ever since dependent mainly on personal wealth and alr- Reagan and Ledeen's mentor Alexander Haig conditionlng. Includes portraits of the Nixon years, took office. (T)he Pentagon has confirmed to Vietnam and Watergate, and the Reagan years. CAIB that Ledeen has a consultant contract with Pearlygate and the 1988 Presidential election. the Defense Department... It has been widely Scarecrow Press, 52 Uberty St.. PO Box4167, Metuchen, NJ reported that Ledeen has been put In charge of 08840. the US government's ‘analysis' of the captued Einstein. Daniel, Special Edition: A Guide to Network Grenada papers....' (p.41). Along with Arnaud Television Documentary Series and Special News deBorchegrave. Robert Moss, and Claire Sterling. Reports. 1955-1979.1987. ISBN 0-8108-1898-1. An he's one of the top CIA disinformation pushers In Indispensable reference for anyone who studies this country. The promotional material promises television. I find myself running to It at least once that ‘ihe record Is uncovered, supplemented, a week. (VG) and corrected again and again in Ledeen's Levy, Emanuel, John Wayne: Prophet of the unique account...' American Way of Life. 1988. ISBN 0-8108-2054-4. If Unger, Irwin & Debl, Turning Point: 1968.1988(524.95). you do popJar culture and Vietnam, don't miss ISBN 0-684-18696-9. Yet another 60s cash-ln. (VG) this. (VG) Shameless Hussy Press, Box 3092, Berkeley, CA 94703. Newman. John, Vietnam War Literature. 1988, ISBN Byrd. Barthy. Home Front: Women and Vietnam. 0-8108-2155-9. Still another edltionof the Newman 1986 (S7.95), ISBN 0-915288-52-4. Interviews with bibliography. This one has a glowing Intro by nine American women. Including a Vietnamese John Clark Pratt. Newman has done us all a favor refugee.about the Vietnam War. Thisshortvolume by keeping track of the publication of even the Is definitely worth taking a look at. particularly if most obscure Vietnam novels. The new you are looking for examples of oral histories chronological arrangement Is very useful. Those which differ from the male-oriented, warrior- who have difficulty tolerating his Inane plot worshipping norm. Look for a longer review In the reductions of favorite novels can simply skip Newsle tie r accompanying our Issue on Gender thesummarles and use the references. (VG) and the War. (VG) Palmer, William J„ The Films of the Seventies: ASocial Simon ft Schuster, Rockefeller Center, 1230 Ave. of the History. 1987, ISBN 0-8108-1955-4. Of the ten films Americas. New York, NY 10020. upon which Palmer concentrates, three are Becker. Elizabeth, When the W ar W as Over: Vietnam Aims: The Deer Hunter. Go Tell the Cambodia's Revolution and the Voices of Its

- 17- People. 1987 ($9.95). ISBN 671-64559-5. Becker, the author of Sem per Fi. Mac. has no surprises. But who covered Cambodia for the WasNngton Post. If you want oral histories from the Korean War, describes the Khmer Rouge revolution and Its here they are. (VG) afterm ath. Coleman, JD.Pteiku: The Dawn o f Helicopter Warfare Doan Van Toal, & David Chanoff, The Vietnamese In Vietnam. 1988 ($19.95), ISBN 0-312-01807-X. Gulag. 1986 ($18.95). ISBN 0-671-60350-7. This Unit history of the 1st Air Cavalry by a man who *gee. w as I disillusioned with the revolution' served as an Information officer and participated Vietnamese autobiography was co-authored by In the Plelku Campaign. (For hardcore military the dynamic disinformation duo. David Dellinger, history buffs. (VG)) In Vietnam Revisited (South End Press, 1986) Javna, John and Gordon. 60s!: A Catalog of mentions that ‘I happen to know some things Memories and Artifacts. 1988 ($ 14.95). ISBN 0-312- about Toal and they all lead to the CIA' (p.138). 01725-1. Its back cover blurb babbles. 'N o t a But. just as Dellinger cautions his readers not to serious book about drugs or Vietnam, 60s! Is a Interpret Vietcong Memoir too simpllstically, this light-hearted, affectionate look at the real [sic) second book can 'provide us with some 60s—the Laugh-In Years, the Silly Putty Decade, interesting Insights into some of the people who when America drove like James Bond, dressed once worked together and now are In opposing like Twiggy, danced to the Beatles, and watched camps.' (VG) The Man From UNCLE....' Reviewed by such lofty Gutman, Roy, Banana Diplomacy: The Making of journals as People M agazine and the Los Angeles American Policy In Nicaragua. 1981-1987, 1988 Weekly. Though the text is predictably insipid, this ($.19.95), ISBN0-671-60626-3. Gutman believes volume Is worth It for the pictures alone. (VG) that Reagan's Nicaraguan obsession exemplified Parker. T. Jefferson. Uttle Saigon. 1988 ($18.95), ISBN his administration's flawed foreign policy. In the 0-312-02245-X. Detective novel by the author of White House and the State Department, rival Laguna Heat, set In a Vietnamese refugee power centers relied on Intrigues, backstabblng. community In Orange County. CA. and conspiracy to fulfill their conflicting visions of Stackpole Books, Cameron and Kelker Sts.. Harrisburg, Reagan foreign policy. Gutman explores the roles PA. of Casey and North In the formulation of policy In Reflections on the Wall: The Vietnam Veterans Nicaragua and other third world trouble spots. M em orial, photographs by the Smithsonian He traces the controversial tenures of Thomas Institution's Office of Printing and Photographic Enders. Tony Motley, and Elliott Abrams, and the Services. 1987 ($16.95). ISBN 0-8117-1846-8. A roles played by hardliners like Kirkpatrick and sentimental promo piece about the Memorial Caspar W einberger. W all. A portion of the proceeds of each copy go Schoenbaum. Thomas J„ Waging Peace & War: to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. Some Dean Rusk in the Truman. Kennedy & Johnson nice photos, but you'd think from this piece that Y e a rs. 1988 ($22.95), ISBN 0-671-60351-5. there was no such thing as an antiwar Vietnam Schoenbaum's book Is both an account of one vet. (VG) of America's most Influential statesmen and a Thunder’s Mouth Press, 93-99 Greene St„ New York. NY look at our country's most significant foreign policy 10012 decisions, from the Korean War to the conflict In Jacob. John, Long Ride Back. 1988 ($9.95). ISBN 0- Vietnam . 938410-46-6. An excellent novel by a Vietnam Thompson, Hunter S., Generation of Swine: Gonzo veteran about readjusting after the war. Extremely Papers. Vol. 2. Tales of Shame and Degradation well written; not one of the current crop of In the '80s. 1988 ($19.95), ISBN 0-671-66147-7. * Vietnam-chic" cash-ins. (VG) Another priceless Hunter Thompson collection. Wllens, John Oliver, 'Sip p i. 1967 ($9.95). ISBN 0-938410- Who could resist? (VG) 55-5. Republicatlon of the classic civil rights novel. Soundprint.WJHU, Johns Hopkins Unlv.,2216 North Charles Times Books, a division of Random House, New York. NY St.. Baltimore. MD 21218 (301)333-9548. 10022 . Borton. Lady, After Sorrow. 1987 ($10). Edited from Blair, Clay, The Forgotten War: America In Korea Interviews taped for Public Radio. After Sorrow 1950-1953. 1987 ($29.95), ISBN0-8129-167CK). A portrays ordinary northern and southern truly enormous study of the Korean War. Worth Vietnamese women who fought against the taking a look at. (VG) Americans. The documentary, which ran on 120 Hayden. Tom. Reunion: A Memoir. 1988 ($22.50). public radio stations, emphasizes the women's ISBN 0-394-56533-9. Another 60s activist memoir. sto rie s. (VG) St. Martin’* Pres*, 175 Fifth Ave„ New York. NY 10010. Smith, Hedrick. The Power Game: How WasNngton Berry, Henry, Hey. Mac. Where Ya Been? Living W orks. 1988 (24.95). ISBN 0-394-5547-7. The author Memoirs of the US Marines In the Korean War. o f The Russians uses the same epic style In an 1988 ($22.95), ISBN 0-312-01772-3. Cashing In on analysis of the Washington scene. He claims that the oral history book boom. this new collection by a revolutionary explosion of power In the mld-

- 18- 1970s turned Washington inside out, and that there is a new breed of winner with new political rebellion,the Malaysian Insurrection.the Algerian styles and new sets of rules—and new talents and W ar, and the Vietnamese War, and the repeated techniques are required If the American system conflicts in Central and Latin America. He explores of government Is to work effectively. the origin of these wars, the motivation and Wise, David, The Spy Who Got Away: The Inside Story organization of the people who fight them, their of Edward Lee Howard. 1988 ($18.95).ISBN 0-394- rural and popular natixe. how and why guerrilla 56281-X. Wise managed to make contact with armies may be converted Into regular armies, Howard and met secretty with him for six days In conceptual approaches to counterinsurgency, Budapest. and the 'natural history' of these wars. Union for Radical Political Economics, 122 W 27th St., New Rogln. Michael, Ronald Reaaan. the Movie and York. NY 10001. Other Episodes In Political Demonology. 1987. Cherry, Robert, etal. (eds.). The Imperiled Economy. ISBN 0-520-05937-9. Political demonology. Rogin Book 1: Macroeconomics from a Left Perspective, argues, Is found not simply among extremists and 1987 ($9.50). ISBN 0-933306-50-4. And The outsiders but among the political and cultural Imperiled Economy. Book 2: Through the Safety elites at the center of American politics. Movies Net. 1988($8.50).ISBN0-933306-51-2. Someofthe have linked elite and mass mentalities In our best alternative economic theorists have written century. Rogln looks at the relationships between for these two volumes. An essential read for movies and politics, from the origin of motion anyone Interested In alternate perspectives on pictures In the racial fantasies of The Birth of a American and world economy. (VG) Nation to the origins of Ronald Reagan In motion Univ. of British Columbia Press, 303-6344 Memorial Rd.. pictures. Rogln traces the sources of Reagan's Vancouver. BC Canada V6T 1W5. confusion between politics and the movies to the Miller, Mary Jane, Turn Up the Contrast: CBC Television roles the actor played on screen. To trace the Drama since 1952.1987, ISBN 0-7748-0278-2. genealogy of the Reagan phenomenon, Rogln Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, CA 94720. examines the roles of Indian removal. the myth of Lazere, Donald (ed.). American Media and Mass the West, and political repression In creating an Culture: Left Perspectives. 1987. ISBN 0-520-04495- American political Identity, and looks at the cold 9. The authors Include scholars from a dozen war films that formed the world view of the academic disciplines as well as leading leftist president. media activists. They present a counterstatement Rouqui6. Alain, The Military and the State In Latin to the conservatism that has been ascendent A m erica, translated by Paul E. Sigmund. 1982/ since the 70s In both American cultural criticism 1988. ISBN 0-520-05559-4. After tracing the and electoral politics, providing evidence In background of Latin American militarism In the refutation of conservative claims that American 19th century. Rouqul6 distinguishes the media are biased in favor of the left. (Though Institutionalized military interventions of the mld- there unfortunately are not any essays devoted 20th century from the earlier personalized caudlllo to media representations of the Vietnam War. rule that still exits In a few countries in Latin America. this volume should prove useful to those of us who He explains the phenomenon of Institutionalized study the subject. (VG)) military Intervention as the result of early Marx. Gary T., Under Cover: Police Surveillance in modernization and professionallzatlonofthe Latin A m erica. 1988. ISBN 0-520-06286-8. Marx American military. He also evaluates the impact examines the variety of undercover operations of foreign influences, especially that of the US and the ethical Issues and empirical assumptions since WW2. and develops a typology to describe raised when the state officially sanctions the relation of the military to the state in different deception and trickery and allows Its agents to countries. participate In crime. The consequences that Univ. of Chicago Press, 5801 South Ellis Ave.. Chicago, IL undercover operations can have for surveillance 60637. targets, third parties. Informers, and police are Farber. David. Chicago '68. 1988 ($19.95). ISBN 0- exam ined. Marx proposes tha t the tactic be one 226-23800-8. Farber reconstructs the bloody of last resort, and he specifies the conditions and confrontation at the 1968 Democratic Convention controls that should be present before It Is used. by drawing on primary sources: interviews, private He argues that If our democratic rights are not to papers, organizational records, newspapers, be compromised by new forms of surveillance, magazines, film s and filmed accounts,and books greater vigllanceand more sensible and sensitive of the times. He tells and retells the story from the laws and policies are required. perspectives of each of the major protagonists: Rice. Edward E., Wars of the Third Kind: Conflict in the Ylpples. the Mobe. and the Daley machine. Underdeveloped Countries. 1988, ISBN 0-520- He argues that the crisis of the times was driven by 06236-1. Rice examines a host of conflicts, the unavoidable discovery, by both protesters beginning with the American Revolution, but and defenders of order, of categorical cultural concentrating on the Chinese CMI War. the Huk and ideological differences In a society grown

- 19- politically dependent on the appearance and the War Films. 1985. ISBN 0-8357-1654-6. operation of national consensus. He concludes Vietnamese Studies at Yale, Yale Southeast Asia Studies, by examining the consequences of democratic Box 13A Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520 participation built on a charismatic national Vietnam Forum , a semiannual review of Vietnamese leader and bureaucratized Interest groups. culture and history ($12 a year in the US; $14 Unlv. of Iowa Press, Iowa City, IO 52242. elsewhere). See advertisement In this issue. Coles. Robert. That Red Wheelbarrow: Selecfed Viking Kestrel/Penguln, 40W 23rd St.. New York, NY 10010 Utera ry Essays. 1988 ($24.95). IS8N 087745-208-3. Heinemam, Larry, Close Quarters. 1977 ($6.95), ISBN Unlv. of North Carolina Press, PO Box2288, Chapel HIII.NC 0-14-008578-5. One of the better Vietnam War 27515-2288. novels, notable for the transformation of Its Bennett. David H.. 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NY 10010 out of the upheavals of the 60s and the Digglns.John Patrick, The Proud Decades: America disappointments of the 70s, differs from the earlier In War and Peace. 1941-1960.1988 ($19.95). ISBN ones In that the target Is no longer foreign 0-393-02548-9. Diggins tells the story of these Influences but perceived evils within our own decades In a narrative form, a story with a society. Bennett concludes that the political beginning (the war), a middle (the economic extremism of the Right will remain a powerful victory at home and the struggle to keep the force In American life. peace abroad), and an end (the passing of Unlv. of Wisconsin Press, 114 N. Murray St., Madison. Wl these days Into the tumultuous sixties). The cover 53715. blurb reads: 'It Is a time when, by conquering In MacDonald, Sharon, et al. (eds.). Im ages o f Women a great war, by battling the evils within Itself, and In Peace and War: Cross-Cultural and Historical by going on to prosperity, America had good Perspectives. 1987, ISBN 0-299-11764-2. This book reason to be proud and. In the end, good reason explores women's relationships to war, peace, to ask 'What shall we do with our greatness?'' and revolution. The contributors consider the Dougan. Clark & Stephen Weiss. The American reality of women's participation and also look at Experience In Vietnam. 1988 ($39.95), ISBN 0-393- how their actions have been perceived and 02598-5. This large picture book was written and represented across cultures and through history. edited by the same team that produced the 25 They examl ne how sexua 11 imagery Is constructed, volume Illustrated history of the War, The Vietnam how It Is used to delineate women's relation to Experience. Beautiful photos, but don't expect warfare and how these Images have sometimes much out of the text. (VG) been subverted In order to challenge the status Eddy, Paul, with Hugo Sabogal and Sara Walden, quo. (Unfortunately, there Is nothing here about The Cocaine Wars. 1988 ($18.95). ISBN 0-393- Vietnam, but the collection is nonetheless useful 02579-9. Books about multimlllion dollar drug for providing methodological comparisons. (VG)) profits, corrupt cops and crime families more UMI Research Press, 300 N. Zeeb Rd.. Arm Arbor. Ml 48106. powerful than governments are bound to be Renov, Michael, Hollywood's Wartime Woman: sensational. Unfortunately, most such books are Representation and Ideology. 1988, ISBN 0-8357- also of dubious credibility. The Cocaine Wars 1813-1. addresses this problem both by providing Simone. Sam P., Hitchcock as Activist: Politics and abundant detail from Interviews and official

- 20- records, and by Including a long and forthright official policy, but on the everyday people who 'Notes and Sources" section which Illuminates remain ready, as In the time of slavery, the civil the author's own biases as well as their subject's. rights movement, and the Vietnam war, to This credibility makes the CIA Involvement, the challenge a government they Judge to be acting widespread corruption and the utterly Ineffectual contrary to conscience and the best American U.S. response to the problem described seem all traditions. the more troubling. Perhaps most surprising Is the Kaiser. Charles, 1968 in America: Music. Politics. suggestion that "America (is) no longer engaged Chaos. Counterculture, and the Shaping of a In an all-out battle against a massive conspiracy, Generation. 1988 ($19.95). ISBN 1-55584-242-9. but that. In a subtle way. It (has) become part of Largely based on unpublished Interviews and that conspiracy." (VG) documents (Including In-depth conversations with Edelman. Bernard. for the New York Vietnam Veterans McCarthy and Dylan, among many others, and Memorial Commission, Dear America: Letters the late Theodore W hite's archives, to which the Home from Vietnam. 1985 ($13.95), ISBN 0-393- author had sole access). 01998-5. Edited collection of the letters compiled Simpson. Christopher. Blowback: The FirstFJIAccount during the search for material to engrave on the of America's Recruitment of Nazis, and Its New York Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Disastrous Effect on our Domestic and Foreign Gardner, Lloyd C„ Approaching Vietnam: From Policy. 1988 ($19.95). ISBN 1-55584-106-6. Among World War2 through Dienbienphu. 1988 ($22.50), the wealth of new material In this book, Simpson ISBN 0-393-02540-3. Thestoryofthe "other Vietnam brings to light for the first time how senior members w ar,"—a diplomatic and unequivocally American of the State Department and the CIA helped w ar that began In 1941 a s the fire s of WW2 raged. organize clandestine programs that brought high- Koning, Hans, Nineteen Sixty-Eight: A Personal Report. ranking Nazis and Axis government officials to 1987 ($15.95), ISBN 0-393-02471-1. Another 60s America—and how the State Department has personal narrative. This, however. Is one of the covered up the evidence ever since; how the best. (VG) Pentagon falsified its own files to bring former Nazi Kw ltny, Jonathan, The Crimes of the Patriots: A True scientists, some of the SS officers such as Werner Story of Dope. Dirty Money, and the CIA. 1987 von Braun, Into the country; how in 1948 Nazis on ($19.95), ISBN 0-393-02387-7. In his last book. the US intelligence payroll seriously misrepresented Endless Enemies. Kwltny demonstrated that our the nature and extent of the Soviet threa t. there by anti-communist based foreign policy undermines materially heightening the cold war; how the American security. Here he exposes the crimes Pentagon trained and equipped former Nazi committed against American citizens In pursuit of collaborators for use as antt-Communist guerrillas that policy. He shows how some of the biggest in the event of a nuclear confrontation; how the names In American defense and Intelligence CIA has spent millions to bankroll anti-Semitic were Involved in an operation that promoted the 6migr6 political groups inside the US—and has drug trade, tax evasion, and gun running, and consistently hidden the part played by leaders of swindled American citizens and citizens of allied these groups during the Holocaust. (If you aren't counWes out of millions of dollars. Kwltny's tale of completely appalled when you read this, you're the Nugan Hand bank affair demonstrates that probably part of the problem. (VG)) the Iran-Contra affair was only the tip of the William Morrow, Inc., 105 Madison Ave., New York. NY Iceberg. 10016. LaFeber, Walter. Inevitable Revolutions: The United Sheehy, Gall. Character: America's Search for States In Central America. 1984 ($7.95). ISBN 0- Leadership. 1988 ($17.95), ISBN CH688-08072-3. A 393-30212-1. pop-psychosocial exploration of what has sha ped Smith, Wayne S., The Closest o f Enemies: A Personal the character of George Bush, Bob Dole, Mike and Diplomatic Account o f US-Cuban Relations Dukakis. Albert Gore. Gary Hart, Jesse Jackson, Since 1957. 1987 ($8.95). ISBN 0-393-30530-9. and Ronald Reagan. (VG) Walter LaFeber called It "The most provocative Monroe, Sylvester & Peter Goldman, Brothers: Black and Informative insider's account we have on US and Poor—A True Story of Courage and Survival. policy toward Cuba and Central America during 1988 ($18.95), ISBN 0-688-076220-X. Brothers the Carter and Reagan years." chronicles the lives of 12 men who grew up Weldenfleld & Nlcolson, 10 E 53rd St.. New York, NY 10022 together In two of the toughest housing projects Crittenden, Arm. Sanctuary: A Story of American on Chicago's south side. In the summer of 1986, Conscience and Law In Collision. 1988 ($21.95), Sylvester Monroe (who grew up In the same ISBN 1-55584-039-6. Crittenden follows the ghetto), along with three other correspondents sanctuary movement from Its obscure beginning and a photographer from Newsweek, spent four In 1980 to Its headline-making climax in federal months with the brothers at the Robert Taylor court In 1986. She also casts light on the America Homes and Prairie Courts. The stories that ran In of Ronald Reagan—not just on the effect of Its Newsweek have been greatly expanded.

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