European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes w77 John Roche Ihle crisis detailed after Reading Brae strips big Story How the american press end television interpreted us Cirila of Tel 1968 in Vietnam and t feel Tike us family of us californian accidentally lynched in what do you say when the vigilantes come take off their and about that we just got the wrong Man nothing personal i also fed spiritually Metic Toily accurate study of How the american Media handled the january in offensive forced me 10 three of the worst months of my february and March there is a Good psychic sense in the Irish do not discuss rope in the House of the january 1968 was a horrendous month for the president of the United on the the vietnamese besieged Khz a major blocking Post held by marines and Avn hangers in Quang tit province just South of the Demilita Rod the Garrison was vastly numbered and people in the government and out begun meditating in the possibility if an american Dick Blitz almost simultaneously the North koreans Sewid the intelligence ship Pueblo on the High Seal and commando raiders almost reached the Blue House South Korea White prepared to blow it sky did this indicate the asian communists were opening a second front or was in just a Bluff to obtain the withdrawal of crack Rok divisions from Vietnam were the soviets in the acl 7 president Lyndon Johnson and his aides were meditating on these matters when seemingly the roof fell in the Early morning hours of in Silicon Early afternoon in the Vietcong hit various locations in the capital City and full kale attacks were launched on the other major cities of South Vietnam Hanoi stud and Saigon accepted do Tipitt american Mili tary a weeks truce to Cele brate the Tel to Hall the South vietnamese army was on leave when Gen eral Cap while initially the assaults on Danang and Hue were the mod inter est worldwide focused on the Buttle for the american from the coverage you might have thought a whole North vietnamese division was in the and Early reports indicated lire pc had penetrated the building and held Throe ibis false news seemed to Over Joy leading elements of the washing Loo press corps it just proved that bum Psi was again when Beta Ted of improved this attitude cd even the tight tipped Dean Husk to ask some journalists which Side they Whereon actually a suicide squad of about 20 pc sappers hit the raised some never penetrated the fortress like build and got but it was a Media i came close to committing Homi cide when i invited a leading Washington newsman who was trumpeting toe vac complis ment at the 1 ill put you on the phone to Arch Calhoun the political offi cer in his embassy which you and your pals have the pc he told Roe it was the kind of setup that we could easily Rig How would be know whether Calhoun was actually in us office enough Roche moreover its no fun to i told you when you cannot resurrect the suffice it that Brac strips mordant Micron Lyau fully justifies Dean rusks tote Ameri can Media virtually turned a great Victory South Yie Taroose troops into a de Moralli ing neither rus ii nor i believe in the soviet notion of objective guilt never wanted Ute journalists jailed As pikes of Hanoh in subjective terms that was but there id a difference Between ashment and exposure of or p himself Al Partick overwhelmingly american press Wilh a few outstanding could not have done a better Job of undermining the american Peoples commitment to Iho defense of the South vietnamese had they been on Hanoi pay for example i got Early information about the brutal North vietnamese massacres at Hue unlike my were not Soona Noui outbursts of but thoroughly researched and came with broke Down system at eally seized civil servants and other and disposed we found the mass Gravesend tried to stimulate press coverage and except for us1s which by Law could not be do attributed in the the execution pits went  for too after the dead were vietnamese not this pavlovian ethnocentrism As Braestrup dominated the coverage of Tho whole to it was a shameful episode in the annals of the american George will the House is about to lose a giant he was born with the in in but soon his id moved to Mother kept the childrens noses in owl us ing the one read on countless 19th Century hearths pilgrims in West texans sent George Mafort to where Lyndon John son was a Mahon began wrestling with the nations budget when Jimmy Carter was wrestling with High school Al after 43 years of Mahon is senior to All his lie is retiring at the end of term because be would be 80 before the end of that is a poor reason for the or any other ins Titu to lose the services of n Man who abilities remain Mahon is erect and he looks As though he wan whittled from a Fence Post by West Tenas his Ca pacious memory is floor to Ceil with poetry and which ring Down the fairways when he is golfing one morning he posed on the Capitol Steps with a Small regiment in Bright poly Texas ladies there to keep an Eye on resuming to Bis he passed a congressman leaving the House floor in shirt and murmured Dis approval of the Slack standards of the he is one of the last links with Ute new but his Credo As chairman of the House appropriations committee has been less Hyde Park than West Texas pay for in or Pul it off until we Are willing or Able to when he was there were fed eral workers in by 1ho there were about the number the depart ment of education and welfare employees dont blame Thomas Reed of speaker of the House when Mahon was once heard a chaplain Pray that Reed would conduct the according to the will of god without regard to partisan Reed i never heard a More preposterous prayer addressed to the throne of heed was the House is an inherently partisan but no Man has taken less advantage of Large Opportunity to abuse Power than has chairman the portraits on the Wall of office in clude one of the Radical Republican of reconstruction whom the late Stewart shop will de scribed As the most Merdutt and Vindle live politician the United slates has no two men who have served on Capitol Hill Era less alike than Stevens and ibs conversation constantly Teo Teri agreeably on us Edge of a like the Redan Dwhite Check Necktie he is wearing with an otherwise subdued Sensem inure is about him an unexpected irrepressible impulse to he has been an ornament to a City Wuh More than its fair share of the a City that is not about to Lake Chester ions Point it is really a natural trend to lapse taking oneself because the sics thing to do for solemnity out of men naturally but la it is easy to be satan fell by Force of the Hall Outt de his office folding far the workmen whose perpetual one of maintaining mellowness of the capitols tar Eca told for hang into Rnic reals there never is a Namh Ark ladder leaning against the Wall puts mind of a hymn to mar Lmh top remd in the Colu my w he 10 m wet firm ii Wnm tug do f Dawid in 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