Dispersing the Fog

by men like Father Drinan turn out tonbe without substance. So does the somewhatncontradictory charge that thenPhoenix program, actually an intelligencenoperation, existed to summarilyndispose of the South Vietnamese government'snopponents. As Lewy observes,nmany opponents of the war were readynto believe the wildest allegations againstnthe Americans and South Vietnamese,nbut . . .