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Show 49 Smith said that distribution of The important difficulty: at. the other end. effort If our mail problem was having our mail seized detected and seized, was our entire defeated.1I was On IIOur main Ally was the group1s most one occasion, the military may have interfered with The Ally1s distributi"on. "Al thouqh military as a matter of federal postal regulations require the law to deliver the mail, the mili tary violated that Iaw," Smith insisted. He cited of mail seizure Marine Air Station in Japan. In Some got ones occurrence at Iwakuni early 1970, five marine corpsmen bundles of The individual II an through and us some know. at this an base example were sent Ally, each containing one hundred copies. di dn It, who didn1t receive the his bundle let as II Smi th Sa i d. shipment, The Marine IIWe discovered the because the guy who did get Corps had down and swooped intercepted themail.1I The were potential distributers who did not receive called before their base commander and handed Ally from the bundles addressed them. to distribute The against regulations rest of the to shipment was confiscated. their bundles one They were told it was Ally at the base, and the Although these marines were not court martial ed, they were immediately transfered Marine Corps units. One were sent to bases where he had just in was resulted in a to Vietnam from The transient nature of the actually encouraged a wider distribution out the services. to other transfered to the United States, two Japan, and one was returned come. copy of The military of the newspaper through The transfer of clandestine distributers often broadening network of contacts at posts and bases |