Word: antiwar
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...that the story is building towards its ending--the gap between American and Vietnamese experiences of the Vietnam war, and the American antiwar movement's failure to bridge the gap, seem clearer than ever before. Congress may flatly refuse President Ford the unqualified authority and unlimited funds that it awarded his predecessors and that he needs to continue the war. But Congress's new willingness to refuse--if it doesn't crumble under pressure, as several key representatives already have--will depend less on leftists' and liberals' imagination of mechanized warfare than on liberals' and conservatives' unwillingness so he bothered...
This was testimony to the limited success of an antiwar movement that had increasingly insisted that American activities in Indochina called in question the whole political scaffolding on which they rested. And it was still more telling that the most important political figure still obviously concerned with what happened in Vietnam--as opposed to what happened in the United States--was President Ford, visibly moved by the influx of Vietnamese orphans and bewailing his lack of legal authority to continue bombing their country...
...antiwar movement will return to action, as thousands did this January in Washington, until the Congress ends this recycled insanity in Indochina...
...instill a new spirit in jaded government, Brown has made most of his appointments outside the political parties. Many of his appointees are associates from environmental or antiwar crusades. Prominent among them are blacks, Mexican Americans and women. Claire Dedrick, 44, secretary of resources, was a vice president of the Sierra Club. The secretary of health and welfare, Mario Obledo, 42, a former Harvard law instructor, was once on welfare...
...present ambassador carefully avoids the direct U.S. politicking engaged in by his predecessor Yitzhak Rabin. Under Rabin, the embassy openly supported the 1972 candidacy of Richard Nixon, thus offending much of the U.S. Jewish population. Rabin supported Nixon's Viet Nam policy precisely at a time when some antiwar Jews were