Further Mention

Jonathan Mirsky, Associate Professor of History and Chinese and Co-Director of the East Asia Language and Area Studies Center at Dartmouth, who has traveled widely and lived in Indochina, Japan, Indonesia, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, is coauthor of "The Nam Tha Crisis: Kennedy and the New Frontier on the Brink" in Laos: War and Revolution (Harper and Row, 1970), an anthology of 482 pages. Nam Tha, the city in a mountain river valley 15 miles from China, is where Phoumi Nosavan had concentrated more than 5000 troops as a test of his own strength and of the Department of Defense and CIA commitment to him

In the volume of 590 pages (Random House, 1971) entitled Crimes of War: ALegal, Political Documentary, and Psychological Inquiry into the Responsbility ofLeaders, Citizens, and Soldiers in Wars and dedicated to all victims of the War in Indochina, Mr. Mirsky has contributed "The Toms of Ben Sue." This is the village north of Saigon obliterated by bulldozers in 1967 where the 3800 Vietnamese villagers "were disposed of in various ways to eliminate what The New York Times called 'an embarrassing problem for the Saigon Government.'"

As co-author, Mr. Mirsky has written "The United States in Laos 1945-1962," an essay of 25 pages in America's Asia:Dissenting Essays on Asian-American Relations (Pantheon, 1969), a volume of 458 pages in which twelve young Asian scholars sedulously expose the roots of our involvement. The New York Times describes these revisionist interpretations "as the scholarly equivalent of the Calley case."

Luis Zalamea '42 is Managing Editor of Si, The Magazine of South America which was inaugurated with the Summer 1971 issue. It is published quarterly by a new corporation jointly operated by the South American Travel Organization, Miami, and Grant-Mann Lithographers, Ltd., of Vancouver, Canada, the printers.

In Volume 1, Number 1, Mr. Zalamea is the author of an article entitled "Panama Re-Visited." In addition to his new editorial position, he is Executive Director of the South American Travel Organization and is engaged in the production of two South American films, Bolivar and Don Quixote.

Two Dartmouth authors have won prizes for articles published during the past year. Dr. Edwin A Weinstein '30, Professor of Neurology at New York's Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, has won the Binkley-Stephenson Award and $500 from the Organization of American Historians for "Woodrow Wilson's Neurological Illness" in the September 1970 issue of the Journal of American History. The other prize-winner is Lawrence A. Armour '56 of Springfield, N.J., associate editor of Barron's, who received the Financial News Award and $500 from The Deadline Club of New York for his article, "Lost, Strayed or Stolen?" in the December 21, 1970 issue of Barron's. The article provided a detailed analysis of the events surrounding the suspension and ultimate collapse of First Devonshire Corp., a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange.