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horse man Cornelia Wallace was not directly in terviewed. Governor Wallace's National Publicity Director, Billie Jo Camp and his former Campaign Co-ot'dinator for South and North Carolina, Tom Turnipseed, agreed to answer a few questions that the Gamecock's head honchos had suggested. I wonder if the paper would have printed anything about Mrs. Wallace's visit to our fair city if the person responsible for the above mentioned interviews had not asked permission to represent the Gamecock in the press box? The original article will never see the prin ters ink. It is in the wastebasket or in a drawer tucked away out of sight at the paper. If Mr. Derks had gone to the Capitol to see and hear Mrs. Wallace speak, maybe he would not have had to write that piece of fantasy about what Wallace might have said, had he addressed the Legislature. Unfortunately the Governor had been shot five times and was feeling poorly, so Scott and West could have a field day making cracks about the First Lady of Alabama. I hope she has wiped the mud of Columbia off her feet by now. Maybe she will come again and maybe a very old heard him say. Etveryone seemed (;uenot turned am very excited about shooting the seemed gasping f prisoners. Allen shouted to his there a minute. His buddy. Alvarez: 'You want to shoot otf the ground. qui them?' 'I don't mind.' The two l.icciardo and All youngest Vietnamese were lined the body out to the up on the broken part of the Van it in. Belknap sprea 1)uong bridge on the left-hand side. blood. The Ma A firing squad quickly formed in a laughing and sh horseshoe. 'I clicked my safety off tossing grenades and heard other's click off there's,' Denzil remembers )enzil says. No one is sure, but of bedlam, explo Allen remembers Alvarez, rifle tire. One boc Maushart, Cornejo, Vickers, shirt, blew up out o Helknap and others in the firing left leg hooking c squad. protruding from the The second man was lying on hanging upside do some hamboo poles that had been chest caved in. used to repair the bridge. and he was lying face down, and I could The next morninf see a few holes in his back. Then I market--near m pushed the body off into the water.' shopping where I t I.aughlter and shouts filled the people said about 1''B. Some Marines started Some said. Thre( tossing grenades into the canal. found near the Van Allen went hack, and Helknap and others said. halped him take the third prisoner were killed near t by the arms into the cement bridge.' I was comp building next to the ('1' bunker. and I went home ar Helknap tied the maim's handsanMrNgynV behind his back with sandbag rope. Ihdhada h I)enzil had some1( white nylon chordasethmogt with a hangman's noose already Oinsei twstr.I it--he had used it to yank open t h bigete booby-trapped gates and doors. E' pcaleri took the chord and threw it over smpae.adt thle concrete beam that ran acrosstohebigunl the building. They stood the man NgynVnog on a wooden backless chair. Allen eisaowtht put the nloose around the man'sEnieratain neck and Helknap kicked the chair u.hrsn 0 1 out fromu under him. The Viet- te:r opn namese fell straight down, his toes Egne-latlo scrap)ing the floor, spinning with adhsuce r thie twisted rope, gagging. Allen I eodscol kicked him in the groin. Helknap .mrcn hr kicked him in the chest. I.icciar-doan tieloel kicked at himi and missed and wne ogtt h eve'ryone laughed and then he treha kicked him in the side of the face,. ild Ihdt L,ance Corporal Guenot, in the hus)Iiuea cluster of the Marines inside thetw AINelst building, saw blood come out of thewarn ofie man's eyes, nose, and mouth.hadurrsep I.icciardo hit the man over the pn'(I ihalt head with a sandbag and the tope i h arlta broke. I )enzil went outside to his ae(inoteII catridle belt near the CP' bunker swlrvt'Iu andl got the ten-inch bowie knife his opn arah faither- had bought and sent from itllaewhth the States at I )enzil's request. lIe w ece h r went back in the building and ldbdiswi stibhed the Vietnammese man in the uneoeedofh chest. twisting the knife. The man th mrcaspi still breathedl. Allen then slit his wdeansidV throa witha slahing otion hsre sad minue. air urr ure; suppor we will never see the "big practiced" smile and her "tired" face another time, as Scott referred to Cornelia Wallace. If she should return, I hope the Wallace people have better sense than to waste their time on the Gamecock or other unworthy in dividuals. The mighty moguls of industry with their money bags and pollution are the only ones that get a smile and handshake around Columbia. The New South southeners are the only ones that get any respect. My advice to the Gamecock is to keep out of politics since objectivity is too big a strain on the individuals there, whom, by the way, I hear believe in freedom of the press...Freedom for their own liberal bigotry. If the Gamecock cannot stay out of politics I believe the University should stay out of the newspaper business or refund that part of our student fees that support the Gamecock. Marilyn D. & Toker A. Johnston Editor Note: Marilyn D. Johnston is the author of the story rejected by The Gamecock because of its poor quality and blatant biases. lb ratio: thal Problem persuadinl mnl(n: (hat ay: the man my uncle.' .lack Shepard ("'n- ('ors is t r air. He lay cident at Van I )uoung" 1DOK. 0""'" right foot rose .\ugust 12. 1969) d" ered. and fell. to n helped drag .I.n 1,- while discussing (n'I thou iver and threw foreign affairs in his Godwin d sand over the L.ectures at Harvard. .dlai tausing h ines started Stevenson remarked, wittily hut (liI Duting again, also )er"haps wistfully, '1 intelli nto the water. somei(timll(es think that what n'ankind. Lewnty minutes .\ nerica needs niore than best frie ling grenades. anything else is a hearing aid.' l.et gove"rn ne ly, in a green us assume that our swift, suc- is not pos f the water, its cessful rise to power confirms us. the know l n a steel rod as a less-swift rise once confirmed o(pinion a cement piling, Itomle, in believing that force is not (in save vn, head gone, the ultima ratio but the principal rout lore , I went to the y house--for ieard what the he three men. bodies were I)uong bridge.' 'I'hree people ff he Van Duong letely confused id told Ho Hein 1 Hong all what market, and I o the bridge to afore they went had to try for* ;sion from ey couldn't get the next day.' is her brother. - e 104th ARVN He got Pvt. Ho 168 203037, from 101st ARVN .Private Huu _ Hong, went to showed some ny permisiion, them that I birdge to see if ny father was ait about twoWecnwt :('harles sawprvd yo d men and a from ARVN asitnecofrneom,a rt to the com .Helknap was nomlypyfrascer. took the Viet - H: l)enzil Allen come into the t didn't knowCa wanted. <When Ige, I saw three were floating L' bridge. One of ited to the dead181Mi -6 "?' 'Nono,not normalyypa for secrtary t Irene Your recent double page feature (complete with pictures) on Vice President Charles Witten's candidacy for District One School Board poses a moot question: Are you going to give equal space to other candidates from the University family? For example, Irene BaBorde Neuffer, faculty wife and herself a former USC English professor, who is a candidate for the same school board. That she's now an active sub stitute teacher in the public schools makes her (more than any other candidate) able to tell like it is. And she does! --just as she always has, even when she was a Gamecock editor getting an A. B. in journalism Magna Cum Laude with a Phi Beta Kappa key and M. A. in English. Is the Gamecock now becoming so pro establishment as to champion Chuck (he's an incubent) without equal space for insurgent Irene? -- especially since she's the favorite candidate of many of lesser lights on campus. Robert C. Rough the onl% sure tools for donle'stie riots. e ran certainly are the stick and carrot in by increasing the dosage of what aread' a aldt ae . gunfire and mone for 'the job of' the larine This is the sort of belief in force kill.' as our television that the Homan Republic acquired kill; from its rise to unique power. and acertain things followed for the nd not to 114l) (alls( tle IRomans that suggest cause and layv dow n his w( eapons, effect .ugustus massacred his I precious lives on both opponents. confiscated their lost inl the process of property. hired more soldiers. is: that our diplomracy "s ht ( E(i)o1a. helped Antony conquer the Senate. 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