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f | to i@ ro } « . yo: ) Dae og 3 re x t ab ies aia a we sek; oar a a. dae Sa. wanes oe —_m oo M4 ‘ ) NY 100-161445 from commitments from an impressive assortment of writers, poets, artists, and rock groups, GIORNO and friends, are also openly seeking tapes from all over the country, to be sent to P.O. Box 410, Cooper Station, New York 10003. Reels for each week will be assembled in New York, and flown by a circuitous route to Hanoi where they'll arrive on Friday, in time for Saturday air-play. At first, the tapes may be heard as infrequently as once a week, but as more are put together, they may be used daily. Radio Hanoi, which now broadcasts a kind of rhetoric-ridden diatribe that isn't much more interesting to our soldiers than the stodgy U. S. Army network, has good air reception all over South Vietnam, except for part of the Mekong Delta, where for some reason jamning is done. (x) "GIORNO says that while WPAX's programming will be clearly anti-war, it won't carry heavy political raps or feature any Tokyo Rose-stype lay down your arms and surrender number. It'll be free form in style. Lots of music = soul, folk, underground rock, and jazz. The kind of war news that soidiers never hear in Southeast Asia, All kinds of material never carried on tight-format GI stations, such tnings as rap sessions about the problems of Viet vets. The general direction of WPAX will be set by an ‘advisory board! of prominent-type people . (4+ "IT wondered what legal tactics WPAX might use to counterafficial pressure, so I called the Law Commune, and spoke to a member who is advising WPAX. He told me that he and many other lawyers feel that both the constitutional definition of treason and the Trading with the Enemy Act can be applied clearly only during a declared state of war, and that since Congress has never declared Vietnam an official war, neither attack could be used against WPAX in this case. He further explained that WPAX was only a non-profit corporation in the business of making tapes for commercial and educational radio programs, and that it had sent letters offering its ie) -24.