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  • 1967 Christmas Edition THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN Vietnam: Page 13 Peace on Earth, Good Siagon - An Ugly City By STEVEN D'ARAZIEN SAIGON (CPS)--This is an ugly- city, a nowhere city, a city without charm or character, Its pervasive odor of corruption is recent; itgrew here in response to the American market for cor" ruption. Saigon is a city of hustlers- of anything, of draft-dodgers, and of whores. It features one of the world's most active black markets and they'll sell you anything, usually after it has been paid for at least once by the U. S. government. At a slight mark-up you can buy the free cigarets sent to the USO, the medicines intended for the hospitals, and, I am told, gasmasks and guns, all snatched off the docks before the vouchers are collected. And, since the NLF makes a lot of money taxing property in Saigon, it has enough money to buy much of our good Amer- ican merchandise. Weapon captured from the NLF in battle show a keen competition between America and China. There are, reportedly, 29,000 whores in Saigon and they aren't difficult to locate. In a war- torn country where Vietnamese privates make $25 a month, someone has to keep the economy going. Meanwhile the financially well-heeled youths of Saigon, either below the draft age of 18 or lucky enough to afford the fat bribe that get you off, can be tooling around town on Suzukis and Hondas, polluting Uie atmosphere and making the U. S. look healthily under-mechanized in comparison. Traffic Most Dangerous Surprisingly the most dangerous aspect of Saigon living is not NLF terrorism. That accounts for only scattered incidents and only rarely something dramatic as the recent demolition of the Nationalist Chinese embassy. No, undoubtedly the greatest danger in Saigon is the traffic. If we remember that it was the French who taught the Vietnamese to drive, we understand why they cut each other off indiscriminately from either the left or right and why there are so few traffic lights and stop signs. The unbelievably numerous motorized pedi-cabs- -motorcycles that propel a wheelchair- mounted passenger—cycles, scooters, and the deadly tricycle Lambretta buses, make Saigon one of the most stench- filled, asphyxiated cities in the world. Saigon has gone loony on wheels. The U.S. military has added to the motorized dance-of death by regularly sending through convoys, endless streams of jeeps and trucks, lights on, horns ablare, to scatter the populace every which way. Refugees Pose Problem Because of the refugee pro- blems--mostly refugees from American bombing, not from Communism--Saigon's population density ranks it with Uie giants. As an over-stuffed city, it has, tucked away in its bowels, some of the worst slums in the world. They rival those of Latin America. Lining the railroad tracks and the inland water-routes, with scarcely room to breathe, are the tin-roofed jerry built shacks, each abutting each, without water or sewage, As a result Saigon has severe health problems, education problems, and juvenile delinquency problems, Unfortunately, Uie only buildings being constructed are Uie lustily landscaped military compounds. HO CHI MINH COMMUNIST LEADER OF NORTH VIETNAM Saigon water should be boiled before use, but most of the residents drink it as it is, to God knows what result. Because running water is a luxury here, most of Uie water has to be carried in cans, usually two on a carrying pole, Sewers in Saigon are inadequate. Many- people don'thaveaccesstothem and some are of Uie nauseating G*mk Hout The boy around the corner from my folks' house is dead. My folks didn't know Uie boy, you understand, They had never spoken to him He lived around the corner in a green house - that's all Uiey knew. They had seen him cutting the lawn in the summer and shoveling snow in the winter. -lust the boy in the green house. They didn't know his name. I iitil Sunday Sunday, ll lady rang the doorbell of my folks' house and said the neighbors were taking up a Collection for the boy who lived in the green house. And who died in Vietnam. My folks hadn't realized he was in Vietnam. But they remembered it had been several months since Uiey had seen him. "He had a wife," my mother said as she came away from the door, "lie livedinthehoii.se with his wife and his folks * "That's Uie green house the second one over as you go a- round the corner, isn't it'.* my SOUTH VIETNAMESE TROOPS A A STREAM open variety. And there is the garbage problem—refuse is left in the streets to fester. There are no refuse containers and I have yet U> see a gar bage truck, /Americans Live In Luxury Americans here are, there fore, living in splendid, air- conditioned isolation from the Vietnamese and Uie blindness of our Vietnam policy seems symbolized in the American embassy's windowlessness and ten-foot wall. The Americans find it easy to stay isolated. The army runs buslines, air lines, eating facilities, post- offices, stores, laundries, and a telephone system. And there are services here run by Vietnamese for Americans. The only Vietnamese who can afford the prices seem to prefer Paris, .So, Uie only contact the Americans have with Uie Vietnamese is with Uie servants, Uie pretty clerks, the bar girls, and the whores. Even if there were more phy- ND THEIR 1 . S. ADVISERS I- OKI) part, show little desire to learn English. I get the feeling that im plicit in the contrast between the comparative American op ulance and the squaler of Uie Vietnamese there is a truth revealed, a clue to the nature of our foreign policy. We seem to be saying Uiat we are a rich nation and we are fighting this poor nation to prove that no poor nation will ever bepower- ful enough to take what we've got. This diesis, that Uie basic division in Uie world today is between rich and ixxir, theciti- fied and the rural countries, has been stated already by Chair man Mao, who has declared war on the rich. Vietnam seems a part of an American attempt U> prevent "Uie yellow peril" nightmare vision of Dean Rusk from coming true. By fighting i n Vietnam, somehow, it is thought we are preventing those little yellow men from coming over and ravaging our homes and taking our electric golf- carts, color TVs, and our Cutty Sark. Toward Men EMPTY BOOTS: SERVICES FOR THE DEAD AT DAK TO, lather ashed, "That's the one," my mother said, *V\ itli the white shutters." His wife must be mighty young," mv father said. "Yes," my mother said Then my mother went into the kitchen to start Uie Sunday roast and my father went back But the war was in the house. So five minutes went by and then my father called: "I hope you contributed something for the flowers," And my mother said: "of course. The lady said nearly everybody on the street did." "But nobody knew him," my father said, "No," said my mother. "But he was Uie boy in the green house." Reprinted from The Cleveland Press Ten Commandments Against Vietnam Dear Editor, The IS military intervention is Vietnam is wrong because: 1, It violates Uie 1st Commandment: Thou slialt not kill; or, are we forgetting Uie Ten Commandments'.' 2. It violates the (.olden Rule: Do unto others as ye would have Uiem do unto you; or, are we forgetting Uie Serm 'ii on the Mount? '.i. It violates International Uiw: Viet Nam, NorUi and South, is one sovereign nation and we have no right to interfere in its internal affairs; or, are w; forgetting our own Civil War? 4. It violates the UN Char ter: Member nations are to refrain from Uie use of force in international relations; or, are we forgetting our commitment to that organization? ."). It violates article 1 of the US Constitution: Wars aredeclaredby Congress, representing all the people; or, are we forgetting Uiat our na tion is a republic? 6. It violates our Declaration of Independence: It is the right of peoples everywhere to establish whatever form of government is best conducive to their safety and happiness; or, are we forgetting our political heritage? 7. It violates the clear admonition of Geo, Washington: No foreign entanglements; or, are we forgetting the teachings of our wisest, most selfless American? 8. It violates the homely truth of Abe Lincoln: We cannot do for others what they should do for themselves; or, are we forgetting the down- to-earth, common sense by which this nation rose to great- ncss? LBJ: SHIFTING IDEAS ON VIETNAM? 9, It violates the wisdom of Ben Franklin: Don't pay too much for the whistle. Every Americai personal income tax dollar now goes down Uie Viet Nam sewer and 100,000 of our finest youth have already been killed, wounded or maimed; or, are we forgetting our most important commitment, that to future generations of Americans? 10, It violates the dictum of Jesus: Cast out the mote in thine own eye, then thou shalt see clearly how to help thy neighbor. We • have plenty to do at home; or, are we forgetting Jesus? Think America; or, are we forgetting how to think for ourselves? Kenneth D. Tomkinson 12 Dolphin Drive Vero Beach, Fla.
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