e continued from page 4 threads look particularly ridi- culous. If the Americans who will probably read these lines want to imagine what this vacant space is, and what it looks like on the first day of the New Year, let them visualize a strip as wide as from about 80th Street to 83rd or 84th and as long as from Fifth Avenue to First — on Manhattan. Let them visualize that this strip lacks any build- ings, schools, shops, service sta- tions, garages, medical consult- ing rooms, picture galleries, or restaurants, the Metropolitan Museum or the Frick Museum. Nothing of the kind is present, except a misshappen pile of bits of brick, crushed stone and earth clods, and this pile has buried thousands of people wha used to live here. People who had relatives and friends. The bombs had first dug out a trench for these people, lifting build- ings and earth into the air and then filled this trench with the same earth and fragments, cov- ering what remained of the peo- ple with this pile as a huge long and wide common burial mound. ' Bazaar Levelled In New York, it is true, this pile would have been, higher, because its buildings are larger and higher than in Hanoi. But more people are living in Hanoi -This week hundreds more Canadians have a clearer under- standing of how to get action in Ottawa because, apart from what the mass media was willing to tell, they’ve heard from peo- ple who were there. Calling for a resolution of the House of Commons asking Nixon ‘‘to cease unconditionally the bombing and to sign the treaty negotiated in October” a representative delegation of over 50 lobbied _ a ried there in a small 5¥ woven basket. One of the yi had excavated a_ child i book, wiped it with his s! and held it out to.the w% Either an ABC book or s thing else with bright pict! And then a pupil’s noté scribbled over with child 1 noughts and crosses. The man took up both, kept thet the palms of her hands and losing strength put her down on the notebook. probably began to cry. Qui Silently. It was the notebo? her son. He did not go to S¢ yet, but she was already ¢ ing him herself. At her side stood a © where she hcped to put remained of her parents her son in order to give th® proper burial. But the box several days now, and still not find anything. And she! the ABC book and the noté there. Several hours later wh? was passing that women ag I saw a child’s leg from to knee, in that wooden bo* That is perhaps all thi wanted to give in my first patch. I though earlier thé could visualize the grief 9 Vietnamese and the crimes ing perpetrated by the A” cans here. I did see so # pictures, so many film and vision sequences. No, I di visualize them. He who has seen anything like it ca visualize them. Ancient Scholars I want the Americans to ' alize all this in the:r — streets, in Manhattan. I ré the difficulty of doing it. let them try. Perhaps the! one more circumstance that must bear in mind when | paring. The Kham Thien 5 is much older than Manhat 80th streets. It is much ! than New York znd all the | ed States of America. It ‘ into existence 600 years Db! the American War for pendence whose bicentena! to be marked in the US three-and-a-half years’ tim arose in Hanoi at the same as the ancient Temple Literature (which, thank is still intact). In the 12th 13th centuries mathemat scholars and astrologers in that street. Perhaps fron it earned its name—Kham 1 Translated, it means “V the Sky.”