Uniform lettering at NAC B

[Ed Ploy]

Does anyone know with reasonable certainty whether anyone will be
offering lettering service on jackets and lames at the NAC B in
Richmond December 10-12? I need to know whether to get out my crafts
supplies...

Also, is there anything in the rulebooks (USFA in my case, but FIE if
ya got it) that describes the size of the country designation under
the name, or is that required to be the same size as the name?

Thanks!

- Ed Ploy

[Fencerbill]

In article <k3d1r0h4mv2durbeo445orsstij129emh9@4ax.com>, Ed Ploy
<eNOploySPAM@suscom.net> writes:

>Also, is there anything in the rulebooks (USFA in my case, but FIE if
>ya got it) that describes the size of the country designation under
>the name, or is that required to be the same size as the name?

Yes, it should be the same, 8 - 10 cm.

Bill Hall

[Fencerbill]

"I would
have been absolutely devoted to Jack Kennedy if I had worked for
him. I would have been knocked out by him. I would have liked him
a lot." (Ibid) With what Anson shows of Hersh, I actually believe
him on this score. He would have loved his version of Kennedy.

Anson's article begs the next question: who is Hersh? As is
common knowledge, the story that made Hersh's career was his
series of articles on the massacre of civilians at the village of
My Lai in Vietnam. Hersh then wrote two books on this atrocity:
My Lai 4 and Cover Up. There have always been questions about
both the orders given on that mission and the unsatisfactory
investigation after the fact. These questions began to boil in
the aftermath of the exposure of the Bill Colby/Ted Shackley
directed Phoenix Program: the deliberate assassination of any
Vietnamese suspected of being Viet Cong. The death count for that
operation has ranged between twenty and forty thousand. These
questions were even more intriguing in light of the fact that the
man chosen to run the military review of the massacre, General
Peers, had a long term relationship with the CIA. In fact, former
Special Forces Captain John McCarthy told me that-in terms of
closeness to the Agency-Peers was another Ed Lansdale.

By the time Hersh's second book on the subject appeared, the
suspicions about the massacre, and that Peers had directed a
cover up, were now multiplying. Hersh went out of his way to
address these questions in Cover Up. On pages 97-98 the following
passage appears:
There was no conspiracy to destroy the village of My Lai 4;
what took place there had happened before and would happen
again in Quang Ngai pr

[Ed Ploy]

his midst, couldn't he
then claim turnabout and use the same tactics by employing a
Communist in the U.S. to kill Kennedy? This, or a combination of
the two, has been what suspect writers like Jean Davison and Jack
Anderson have been foisting on the public for years.

The Establishment Takes Some Hits

The political fallout from the Church Committee was quite
intense. The CIA took quite a few hits, though it emerged intact.

Eastern Establishment-GOP mainstay Allen Dulles was implicated in
the authorization of two assassination plots (Lumumba and
Castro). Even Republican icon Dwight Eisenhower was implicated:
The chain of events revealed by the documents and testimony is
strong enough to permit a reasonable inference that the plot to
assassinate Lumumba was authorized by President Eisenhower.

Nixon was shown to be obsessed with getting rid of the Allende
regime in Chile. And since he had already been disgraced with
Watergate, his defenders, like Bill Safire of the New York Times,
felt that this was piling on. As we shall see, Safire struck back
through Judith Exner.

But the plots against Castro took center stage. They seemed full
of sensational, fantastic revelations that seemed right out of a
James Bond movie: poison pills, exploding sea shells,
contaminated diving suits etc. But no matter how hard they tried,
the media moguls (New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles
Times) could not tie the Kennedys to them. This didn't seem fair
in light of all the mud heaped on Eisenhower, Dulles and the
Watergated Nixon. Unfortunately, not even the CIA's 1967
Inspector General's report, commissioned by Richard Helms for
LBJ, implicated the Kennedys.

No Authorization

The Inspector General's Report (which is quite thorough and
methodical), and the Church Committee's report dealing with
assassinations (entitled Alleged Assassination Plots Involving
Foreign Leaders) are both quite clear on this point. For
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