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Diaru By James Rokosny drugs and r Dispatch** by Michael Herr; Avon; $3.95 The Chan friends and With the current fear, or reality, names are that war may be here again, find yours* Dispatches can serve as a preview name and to all of us who may be fighting these situa soon. scared to death. If you want to go to war, this book might change your mind. If While so: ...ill if:_i 1 i yvu uuu it juu iicvci win. miciitiei DOOK Spea Herr captures the true reality of equilibrium Vietnam, the 1960s, rock and roll others wen and drugs and spills it all out in a kill gooks, most unusual diary. He combines Herr met " humor and tragedy using "hippie downs fron diction" in a manner not too tiger suit a frequently found in a novel. one to cut t other to se While reading about his close guy was bi encounter with death, blood and third time, violence, I found myself frightened . "I just car by the fact that someday soon world." He some of us might witness these 1 time he wa horrible events. Imagine sitting his room a around with friends getting high window, le; and listening to the Beatles, then It sort of going out and seeing one of your realize that friends get his face blown off. It great ideas makes you stop and think ? that it coul doesn't it? on any one < IIF^ I 11 I 1 A - 1 1 S -? * we nave an neara, waicnea ana Herr's tr< read so much about Vietnam over by the Sto the years that the subject has Zappa and begun to lose its impact and the dimension effects are forgotten. But we may overlooked get the same story thrown in our reporters, faces, papers and living rooms in the war; th not too long a time. knew exacl It would be useless for me to try our soldi* to talk about the plot in this book, civilians, for it isn't a plot that is most Herrgot! noticeable, it's reality ? death, he listenec Heart Beat- From page 5 Interwoven into this rather undramatic series o little tales of wild parties, romantic dinners and U The "tea" in question is really marijuana, thoug before I realized that such was the case. Adm known that neither Earle Gray nor Formosa Oolo get hold of.I suppose that the honesty and integrity of Cas gives the book its allure. The same story by a c probably be unreadable, but the lady adds a vene unmomentous goings-on, and for that she should t the movie! VISTA If you are the kind of person who c has the willingness to help solve problems in the U.S. and If you have a strong commitment to I need; VISTA * NEEDS YOU NEW PROGRAMS More opportunities to volur backgrounds in LIBERAL ARTS, arc [ planning, business, construction 1 health services, LAVy^^^pcial w< 18 years of age oifPier PES U.S. Citizen or c^Jjfanent reside must meet and legal crit Compensation jBSSp monthly allo^ajH>6 for food, lodging, inci stipend of Mm** Aortth usually payabf< SL Mm ^smtM evo kes i m < ock and roll. them, and he watched them acters are you, me, our explains it so vividly, it's sci nthor Amorinonc f hn nicnolnliAc ic m ncf i VMIVI A UIIV/I 1VU1JU3 | U1C 1>,0|#W%VI,VO 10 HlVfOV UCJ just changed. You will worth reading. More than th elf putting your own a must, especially now. If yc names of friends into too young or were not toU tions and will become _ I hate to say it ? me of the men in the I mmum ik of dreams, love, E TTT" is of power and sanity, I \ Z\I L 5 savins "We're here to H IV \ #' s>i A * period." One soldier J took pills by the fistfull, ? ^ V-r J i the left pocket of his nd ups from the right, he trail for him and the { ?nd him downit." This I II T *ck in Vietnam for the xv-*/DlZ| \ I L He is quoted as saying |j -j I't hack it back in the ; tells of how the last y nnH s home he'd just sit in / i S ^ nd stick a rifle out the I / VI ading people and cars. fcjTTTV^ from being at war and I IX Jmi d have the same affegt y?j nes, Beatles, Hendrix, I i ? j J- i x i many more aaas a s \ to war that is [j by many writers and He was young during wmummmmmmm?mm?mmm e '60s were his time; he BHBHWfSSWB;ly what it all meant to ;rs as well as the stoned with our soldiers, j f I to rock and roll with mm I I I, I t- : ' 3 fPATyn^ f events are numerous J 11|| ||pf Mji ja-hunting excursions. i ' h it was page 80 or so ittedly, I should have ng is all THAT hard to sady's writing is what [ lifferent author would er of class to all of the J I >e applauded. Bring on 1 an adapt and some of the GEORGE C. < lelp people in a?? I Ihrctin I iteers with I I I v J hitectureand 1 HI if education. I 1 I VaHBSSd identals I 8 CTABK ' at c'amptttibft'ofl 1 1 C!^ * fy ^ fl I /JifflflT ages of w die. He formed about Vietnam, or if you're y iry. curious to find out what actually ii finitely ' happened, if you want to feel it, r at, it is hear it and experience it as close 1< luwere as possible without ever having a ,11., ;n u *i n: A-i ...:n -11 * nijr in- uccn uicic, uispaiciies win anuw /IN FULLER THEl UDEMY AWARD MINATIONS In BEST J DE NIRO ^ ib , SUKKI FJw \ SUPPORT] SUPPORTD NOW SI mmm (jjftfiE ^vhmhhksi " -v'^ v^~;i/K jI':'J BHr / J^L A fictional solution* nnnmon to the real mystery llUllllldll of Agatha Christie's L In I [ * \ JH?& \ HHU V BUS I HB I [ I ^ ABH9k \ jfl ' ? ^T*2 far \ I 'OU to do so. If war is on voiir mind ? .J --- ? f you want to know what to expect, ead Dispatches. 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