Vietnam 'radio revolt' MORE U.S. TROOPS TO BE DISCIPLINED

their duties in Saigon yesterday and face possible court martial after one of them-a newscaster on the American Forces Vietnam Network - denounced censorship in the course of a broadcast late on Sunday night.

The soldier, Corporal Robert Lawrence, abandoned his prepared script and told his television audience:

'We have been suppressed and I am probably in trouble for telling you the truth tonight. I hope you will stop censorship at AFVN and other stations under military rule. ... I have found that a newscaster at AFVN is not free to tell the truth?

Corporal Lawrence said censored news included the peace demonstration in Saigon on December 24, the Saigon black market and comments on the South Vietnam governEndorsed The second soldier, Marine Corporal Thomas Sinkovitz, followed commentator who Lawrence on the programme, said: - Thank you, Bob, in more ways than one' This, he said later, was meant as a complete endorseHuge U.S.

A MILITARY spokesman announced yesterday that in ten years of war America's Vietnam forces have lost 6,290 aircraft, worth about £2,840 million. This figurewhich almost certainly underestimates the losses involved—includes 3,311 helicopters.

The Americans also admit to having 1,318 fixedwing aircraft down and 1.621 'destroyed as a result of other causes'.

The National Liberation Front has announced that 6,400 American aircraft were shot down during 1969 alone.

ment of Corporal Lawrence's remarks.

Under US military law, soldiers are entitled to as much information as civilians and news can only be withheld for military reasons.

The soldiers claim that these rights have been systematically violated by army top brass.

Coming as it does after the courageous anti-war demonstration in Saigon on Christmas Eve, in which US troops took part—the march was brutally broken up by military policeCorporal Lawrence's action is another blow at Nixon's war policy.

Meanwhile, in the Vietnam an official investigation by the Senate Defence Committee has concluded that US troops did massacre civilians at My Lai in March 1968.

Contradicts

The report directly contradicts the line taken up to now by the South • Vietnam government, which denies the massacre ever took placedespite criminal charges filed by the Us army against Lieutenant William Calley and others.

The report says that la number of US troops fired and killed indiscriminately, causing fatalities to a number of civilians, most of them aged people, women and children.

'The South Vietnamese government tried to cover up its responsibilities concerning a massacre of many civilians right in our national territory by issuing a short statement.' This was a reference to the South Vietnamese defence ministry statement on November 22 that reports of the massacre by US troops were 'completely inaccurate' and that about 20 to 25 civilians' were accidentally killed by US bombs and artillery.

Urgency

These latest developments underline the urgency of the campaign to stop Wilson's visit to Washington.

Growing anti-war feeling not only at home, but in Vietnam, splits in the Saigon government and the threat of further exposures of the bloody corruption of the Vietnam war face Nixon with an unprecedented crisis.

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