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Seven-Year-Old

He holds a pistol in each hand, he has a toy tommy gun hanging on his chest.
"How does your mother feel about these weapons?"

"She bought them for me."
"And why?"
"Because of the bad people."
"And who is good?"
"Lenin."
"Lenin? Who is he?"

He thinks hard, but does not know what to answer. "You don't know who Lenin is?" "The captain."

Eleven-Year-Old

"I've been el...

"Fighting Among the Doves" James Finn, in Worldview (Apr. 1977), 170 E. 64th St., New York, N.Y. 10021. Among American former antiwar activists, as Worldview editor Finn reports, bitter controversy has broken out over evidence of totalitarian repression in South Vietnam. In Manhattan, one faction (including Finn) sent a public "Appeal" to Hanoi, December 29, protesting the Communists' detention of many leading non-Communist foes of the wartime Saigon regime. They urged Hanoi...

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