European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 7, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes february William a grisly record of our last Days in Vietnam the Book by prank Snepp brings to mind the philosophical problem posed by Mapp there the supreme court ruled that any evidence unlawfully secured cannot be used As evidence against a prank Snepp was a Cia agent Frank Snepp took an oath not to reveal information he gleaned As a Cia agent without first securing the consent of the Cia Frank Snepp reiterated As Rece Tlyas May in the presence of he director of his intention to abide by his prank Snepp thereupon broke and published decent by analogy with Mapp one should ignore the those who opposed maintaining that evidence is evidence irrespective of now it is will do Well to read decent and with the grisly record of our last Days in concerning the War Snepp is de he sees reasons for prosecuting the and he sees reasons for never having gone into he sees no excuses for doing what we did on our Way which was in effect to betray about South vietnamese who worked for their country by cooperating witty the Cia and our Mili men and women who passed along lifesaving information about the activity of the Why did we do this for a number of reasons the a Young political affairs analyst with the Cia who two Ever had senior responsibility in there was the Bureau chief of the born a he was seduced by the hungarian member of the ceasefire com Mission set up by the Paris Accord of 1973 into believing that the North vietnamese would negotiate at the last minute rather Good Luck to new Yale president under consideration for the of a distinguished sunbed his moment of went to the Campus to spend three various elements of what pall the it was like i thrown into a Bear pit the trustees landed an end to deficit spending this Fine school went 12 Maui Only acuity wanted a Promise there would salary free or program cuts and wanted innovation and fat these minor mat he jibe was n and one of at least a drawn instances i difficulties in currently finding a uni a Rouege Yale made the was a new named than the or began firing shots across his the Newas that now that the Kingman we off the there should be an end to administrative tyranny and restoration of faculty one won Ders if a Yale president can get a fair trial in new particularly when his top Mission ii to end budget imbalances thu years is Over to million to the it would seem Improta be that institution dedicated to to the Rigours of could possibly go is million in the bout yales ecu Rnka department has for years provided Mem Ben and to the Treasury and the Cound of economic surely they could have whispered into firewater ear thai his spending policy was disastrous someone on the Board of trustees must know Bow to read a but for some hard nosed who would the secret about universities and col Leges is far from being models of a they Are dominated by a fundamentally anal intellectual conviction they repudiate the principle of the division of education is probably the most labor intensive Enterprise in the country probably 7s percent of an operate fog budget goes either directly or indirectly into thus the first thing a president should do is is this pro Gram essential Given demographic projections of future College it u probably Safe to say that two4hirds of All current pad pro notably in the humanities and Sowaal should be Over expansion was a sign of the posts put no Boom in Federal funding and even in the 1960s Many programs were As chairman of the Brandeis politics de i resisted creating a graduate arguing there were four or five kj2s Ostuw u to wanders wanting graduate work in poli we could give him warfare to Harvard or j iwo considerations came a the Howship program my colleagues and the administration thought a gradual program a status Symbol be academic equivalent of Long students which brings us Back to Yale and the demand that the faculty be restored to its ancient if this meant that Yale professors would do a lot of the scout work anyone who serves on an admissions committee merits a years remission from i somehow can see the Yale grandees Down in the trenches and suspect they want control Over ugh stat the right to quibble endlessly with the Bly after a Good and then go Back into hiding from their who Watt be in next to complain about faculty inaccessibility yales new Leader Wilt need All his knowledge of the italian Complete with a Medici to put a handle on this billiard Good Luck to  than overrun sail style of hitlers thus ing unambiguously that what was going on in Indochina want a revolution but an trusting his judgment in the this Man tilted the evidence sent Kyj Washington in such a Way As to hold out Hope that there would be during the critical evacuation Stihi that might have been undertaken were pit our the invincibility of Saigon became something of an of accordingly he would stare at and underwrite for the Benefito Washington a romantic version of it partly hews playing the role of the opt i partly that of the Diplomat who sons that to give out bad news at would have a demoralizing cause no Congress and the military to renew even on their progressively attenuated there was Henry it a Wmk who had spoken about a decent the purpose of which was to South and the North to live apart fron each other at least for Long enough to prow the possibility of a settlement Inger had bludgeoned president Thieu to accepting the terms of the Paris Thieu objected that he would not Haf Gow unless the North vietnamese army treated into its my kiss stated Kissinger having the Kissinger Kissinger Wai to demonstrate the reasonableness of and to enforce the treaty by threat ening Aerial retaliation against Hanoi if Hanoi went Back on the what Kissinger did not count on How could he have was watergate one must be cautious of generalities so but it is All but indisputable that Nixon tapes caused the downfall of South Viet because the political debilitation Nixon made it impossible for him to exert such authority As a president particularly one who had achieved such a spectacular political Victory so recently would normally have exercised Over co Norett and us when the turn came to nudge to redeem the promos i we had lie Only subject they Wen talking about up on the Hill was John it is the special anger of prank Snepp not that we lost South Vietnam he Ben piously philosophical about but that we betrayed those who trusted us most and exerted themselves most bravely in the common Frank Snepp tells the Story in outrageous though ones sympathy Mally with those codes of conduct by Whf pc men to make common cause Ellec entering the program were cheated the faculty was Andic first rate butial us Branea typical of a and become docile Progno nerf All sorts were set faculties were increased in and tenure was passed out like pea Alj Over and becoming a University volunteering for