PAGE EIGHT. THE 311CHIGAN DAILY JANUARY 8, 1967 PAGE EIGHT TIlE MICHIGAN DAILY JANUARY R.. iQ~i v aaaw va:av; v.r. LOU d A GUERRILLA WARFARE: FILMS YitnmeeCi gins VitnameseCivilians Subjected to Cong 'Georgy Girl' Entertaining, Tactics of Terrorization by Assassination Enjoyable in Spite of Itself n... nr~r. nn A ,,rne EDITOR'S NOTE: International attention has focused recently on reports of civiliandeaths in North Viet Nam due to U.S. bombings. Less attention is given to the deaths of civilians in South Viet Nam due to Viet Cong terror tac- tics. Here is a summary of that sit- uation. SAIGON WP)-Americans call it terror. The Viet Cong call it war. Regardless of the name, it means death. Communist guerrillas range all over South Vietnam from the de- i that the Viet Cong during the last , not tabulated from July 1 intoI militarized zone to the Mekong River delta. They kidnap, torture, maim and kill. They use bullets, bombs and knives. Some of the victims were American servicemen asleep in billets. Others were Vietnamese government officials or employes. Many were rice farmers,, house- wives, children or other civilians. National police statistics show three years have assassinated roughly 2,100 civilians because they were connected with the gov- ernment or were too close to the terrorists' targets. The assassina- tions show a steady increase- from 479 in 1964 to 608 in 1965 to an estimated 1,000 last year. Exact figures for 1966 are not available. The reporting system was changed and statistics were First Marines in Mekong Delta Face Token Enemy Resistance EDITOR'S NOTE: Associated Press Pulitzer prize-winning correspond- ent Peter Arnett accompanied the first U.S. Marines to hit the beaches of Viet Nam's Mekong Delta-long a Viet Cong stronghold. By PETER ARNETT T H A N H PHU PENINSULA, South -Vietnam (AP) - Eight-inch shells thudded into the surf and beach and the dawn came up like thunder as U.S. Marines waded ashore on white beach in the Mekong Delta-heartland of the Viet Cong for 20 years. It was the first nass American' penetration into the guerrilla stronghold, where the Viet Cong have stored arms, trained recruits. and hid near the beaches to rest from the war. The object of the early morning attack Friday was a strip of sand streaked with driftwood at the southern tip of Vietnam's most densely populated province, Kien Hoa, 55 miles south of Saigon. Cong Avoid Marines The enemy was presumed to have had an ikling of the assult, and few Viet Cong were to be found at the beach. Only several sniper rounds defiantly whipped in as the troops waded ashore. The enemy obviously was not in- terested in tangling with the Mar- ines just jet. The multi-battalion force en- gaged in the delta landings, code named Deckhouse Five, assembled last weekend aboard a 12-ship Navy task force off the coastal GM Calls Back New Models ToR lace Steering Defects DETROIT ()-Collapsible steer- "particularly when the vehicle is ing columns, much heralded as being parked or being turned at safety devices, were in the spot- slow speeds." light yesterday because of faulty The firm said that of the 269,2001 installation as General Motors cars involved, 89,950 are Chevrolet Corp. recalled 269,200 new cars. Chevellesand El Caminos, 76,103 The largest of the nation's four are Pontiac Tempests, 56,441 are auto makers said the steering Oldsmobil F85's and 46,749 are shafts in the company's smaller Buick Specials. model 1967 cars will be replaced Larger models built by GM have because they may snap.s Eight such failures have been steering shafts that, although of repotedso ar-ive n Pnticsa safety variety, are of different reported so far-five in Pontiacs, design and are installed in an- two in Chevrolets and one in aederwan- Buick-all at lowv speeds while other way. parking or turning, GM said. Owners Notified Experimental Shaft Owners of the suspect cars are The steering shafts are the new, being told by certified mail of the impact-absorbing columns de- possibility of a steering failure. signed to collapse under extreme They are urged to get their car to pressure, such as that from a col- a GM dealer promptly for re- lision throwing the driver against placement of the shaft, GM said. the steering wheel. GM President James M. Roche The defect is in the way " the said that when the faults were shaft was installed, not in the first found in the Pontiacs in De- design of it, the company said. cember, "we recalled the cars we The faulty installation resulted thought might possibly be af- in misalignment of the shaft, pla- fected. cing too much strain on it during "We have now decided to make certain maneuvers of the car, GM sure and to change the steering saidi. shaft in the affected 1967 models The stress, although not notice- produced," he said in a prepared able to the driver, may cause the statement. shaft to break, the firm said. Defect At Low Speeds + The fault was first discovered In December and the firm began recalling Pontiac Tempests Dec. 19. A GM announcement at the time said the shaft could break resort of Vung Tau, 40 miles southeast of Saigon, waiting for the weather to clear. Twice the invasion was post- poned because of hazardous sea conditions, particiularly for the Vietnamese marines, who had to clamber over the sides of their assault transports, scramble down nets and into landing craft. Eventually, the order was given for the U.S. Marines to go in first. Gray mist swirled around spade- shaped American landing ships at Task Force 76 launced its oblong, 32-ton, water-tight steel amtrak troop-carriers into the water like fish laying eggs, Landing Commences Amtrak 01 plummeted like a submarine as it left mother ship Coconino County, an LST that harbored eight of the steel mon- sters in its stomach. Barrages of artillery and rocket fire from the 7th Fleet heavy cruiser Canberra and the medium rocket Ship St. Francis River had already softened the beach. Lt. Stanley Cottle spearheaded the assault, aiming his amtrak directly at White Beach, 1,100 yards in front. It was the first official American military thrust into the delta, home of five mil- lion people and an estimated 100, 000 Viet Cong. Fires burned across the southern part of the peninsula as artillery and aircraft hammered suspected Viet Cong structures. commander of B Company. Gen. William C. Westmoreland, comander of U.S. forces in Viet- nam, told newsmen aboard the Iwo Jima that the Marine assault was the first commitment of Amercan troops to the delta. I Challenging Terrain Mangrove swamps, infested with centipedes and mosquitoes, edged the beach where the Marines landed. Villages lay derelict and farmlands were overgrown. The enemy thus far proved not to be the Viet Cong, but the delta itself. Within minutes after com- ing ashore, eight of the 10 am- traks that moved into the swamps were mired. Other vehicles cross- ing the beach later in the day suffered the same fate. October. National police recorded 253 civilian deaths from Jan. 1 through June. Reports Incomplete U.S. sources say the number of incidents increased with the Sept. 11 national elections. From Oct. 8 to Dec. 31 when statistics again were tabulated 521 civilians were reported slain by guerrillas. Murder for Examples "On Dec. 20, a Viet Cong pla- toon infiltrated a hamlet in Quang Tin Province, kidnapped a Hoi Chanh, forcibly carried him to another hamlet and shot him as an example for all the others," the report says. "In Hoa Da district in Binh Thuan Province, a Viet Cong guerrilla squad on Dec. 10 herded the local inhabitants together for a propaganda lecture and then deliberately executed one of the group." Those acts are not limited to the countryside where the government can't keep troops all the time. They sometimes happen in the heart of Saigon. A restaurant bombing in 1965 killed 42. Attack Servicemen The Communist program is to "fight the enemy, wear him down, annihilate him" by executing "deep thrusts into the enemy's rear.'' They consider this to in- clude such targets as government, billets in Saigon. During 1966, they made four major raids on the living quarters of servicemen. Vietnamese civilians often take the brunt of the attacks. There is no official comment, but one American source in Sai- gon, when asked to compare Viet Cong attacks in the south withl North Vietnamese claims thatl American bombs have killed civil-f ians in Hanoi, said: "We use the most sophisticated electronic measures known to keep from killing civilians with our bombs. Our gear cross-check and double-check everything an airplane does up north. Indescriminant Attacks "Here in the south, Charlie-theI Viet Cong-is out to get any and all he can, without regard to po- litical affiliation, nationality or anything else. The point is to prove to the people that CharlieI can call his shots without any re- gard to the thousands of govern- ment soldiers. "Any figures you get won't take into consideration the tons of groceries that never got to market." The source pointed out a reportj on a terrorist the government said was captured last January. When police presented the man at a news conference, he was asked if he would have felt remorse about hurting or killing the children. "No, I wouldn't feel any re- morse," he answered. "This we cannot help." a litte credit, let us say ne has nicely synthesized the styles of other directors. He has done al good job of adopting the New British Cinema look (which was, in turn, a poor adaptation of the French New Wave). The film has some of the mood of "The Knack," but, regretably, doesn't match up to Lester at his best moments. On the other hand, it matches up to Richardson's work and avoids Richardson's pseudo-filmic "inno- vations." The film rests on two charac- ters, Georgy and Jos. Georgy, the sentimental and square protagon- ist, is played by plain-faced Lynn Redgrave (with looks, but not talent, which are antithetical to her sister, Vanessa's). She is a virgin in every respect, a situa- tion which sometimes evokes sympathy, sometimes not (de- pending on the viewer). Lynn Redgrave does a lot of running (another popular modern motif), usually from herself, sometimes from Jos (Alan Bates), from "Zorba the Greek." Bates is given a much better role here and emerges as an important ac- tor. There was a great danger in By RtICHAHD AYERS creating this role because it so Georgy Girl" (playing at the closely resembles characters from GForum) Gis e lein stthe "The Knack" and "Morgan." But, Vth Forum) is enjoyable, in spite partly because of the perennial of itself. I say in spite of itself attractiveness of this type and because the director, Silvio Nariz- partly because of the things that zano, has engaged in some shame- have been added (or modified), it works. Every movement Bates less borrowing of tricks and style makes is another tribute to free- from other directors (even to the dom. It is this insistence on free- point of having harpsichord music dom that makes him seem irre- a la Tom Jones). But, to give him sponsible to his elders and also hurts his contemporaries. He is the hero of our fantasies and of this generation's self-image. He, too, is either loved or hated de- pending on the disposition of the' viewer. Sometimes the stereotypes, es- pecially those including James Mason and Charlott Rampling, get so corny as to convince you that the director is putting you on, and I think he is. That abysmal theme song (blasting all over CK Country this minute) is certainly~ a put-on. But I think the stereo- type action can be enjoyable if you suspend your disbelief-and some of your taste. "Georgy Girl," as this evalua- tion has pointed out, leaves one with ambiguous feelings-but the film isn't really important enough to warrant the trouble of trying to resolve this ambiguity. When the cartoon is over and the theme song comes up and you see Georgy running down the street, you can -say to yourself "Ah, an- other free-wheeling romp through zestful England." And that's what it is, a good one. annoUflCeS the opening of PETITIONING for GENERAL CO-CHAIRMEN LABOR DAY WEEKEND -this new social weekend will be III OPEN 8 I( :00a A.M. -~ iI { 4 presented for the first time ff n l 1 r MmlbL L 0 'IL MIDNIGHT over the Labor Day holiday in September of 1967 -petitions available at the Stu- dent Of fices on the 2nd floor DURING BOOK RUSH of the Michigan Union on Monday, January 9, 1967 * Buy Your Books at STUDLNT BOOK SRVICQ 1215 S. 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