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From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Myers on nrh on "untrue propaganda"
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Date: Tue, 31-Dec-85 00:02:03 EST
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> > [Frank Adams, I think]
> > We did do a lot of bombing in Vietnam in support of the government of
> > South Vietnam.  That government was far better than the North
> > Vietnamese government at that point (which isn't saying much)...
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> [ken perlow]
> Since many netniks may be too young to remember, let's try to be a
> little more accurate about this.  The govt. the US intervened "in
> support of" was a govt. that the CIA itself installed.  And I'd be
> curious as to what sort of index one would use to demonstrate that
> the S Vietnamese govt. was "far better" than the N Vietnamese.
> Diem and his successors were, after all, corrupt from stem to stern
> and guaranteed no basic rights to their citizenry.
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Ken, how about counting boat people and other refugees?  Seems like
a good enough index to me.
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Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan