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...spirit of socialist labor, and together with the rest of the people zealously take part in economic reconstruction." The soldiers never got the chance. The promised demobilization of Hanoi's forces has yet to take place. As a result of Viet Nam's 1978 invasion of Cambodia, more than 200,000 troops are tied down in that country. Another 50,000 have become an apparently permanent occupying force in Laos. Those expeditionary forces are merely the most obvious evidence of a pervading reality about Viet Nam today: expansionist adventures are costly. A nation whose gross national product...
...suspicion. On three sides are the 248 million people of the non-Communist Southeast Asian nations. To the north are Viet Nam's historic foes-1 billion Chinese. Reason enough, some observers think, for Viet Nam to want to weld together an Indochinese federation with a docile Cambodia and Laos under the leadership of Hanoi. Others believe that Viet Nam is simply Moscow's stand-in in the Southeast Asian geopolitical rivalry with Peking. But a more likely explanation is that the men who govern Viet Nam know of no other way except the exercise of military might...
...past four years. The big increase started in the wake of the war in Indo-China, first with the evacuation of U.S. supporters, then the rescue of the Vietnamese boat people (about 75% of the 62,000 Indo-Chinese admitted during fiscal 1979) and finally the starving fugitives from Cambodia (about 20% of the 1979 total). A second large new group comes from the Soviet Union, a total of 77,000 Jews, dissidents and others since...
...YEARS AGO Sunday National Guardsmen murdered four students, part of a crowd in a grassy field at Kent State University to rally against the invasion of Cambodia and the war in Vietnam. Those killings touched off nationwide protest and mourning; across America high schools and colleges closed, and in cities and towns police battled those who could contain themselves no longer and in the face of violence reacted violently. Eleven days later police killed two more students and wounded a dozen at Jackson State University in Mississippi, sparking another round of protest...
...that was ten years ago, when the war in Indochina served as a stark, dramatic reminder of the way our country is run. Today, there is less discussion, less dissent--but not because the system has changed. American imperialism of the sort exemplified by the invasion of Cambodia and the shah of Iran continues around the world. At home, our nation's leaders cut social spending and try to force a recession while they continue to pay billions for missiles. Our government backs nuclear power, allows schools to deteriorate and sells elections to the highest bidder--in short it serves...