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That kind of broad diplomatic wooing of the U.S. has suddenly come into fashion in Viet Nam. The nation is embroiled in a fratricidal war, now more than two years old, with the neighboring?and ultrafanatical?Communist regime in Cambodia, and drifting at the same time into hostilities with another former friend, the People's Republic of China. The pro-American trend in Hanoi is all the more notable given the starchy posture of the victorious Vietnamese regime following the fall of Saigon in April 1975. For more than three years the government, headed by Premier Pham Van Dong...
...situation from the Vietnamese point of view is an increasingly claustrophobic one. Its war with Cambodia shows every sign of being a long-run affair and is a constant drain on national energies. On the other hand, the nature of the brutal Cambodian regime since 1975 is such that even Senator George McGovern?who campaigned for the presidency as a passionate foe of U.S. Viet Nam policy?suggested last week that armed international intervention might be necessary...
...M.I.A.s, 200 are believed to be in Viet Nam, 124 in Laos, 16 in Cambodia...
...statement that the situation in Cambodia is "the deadly logical consequence of an atheistic" system of values suggests that theistic value systems have never allowed or encouraged such atrocities. One need only cite the brutalities committed in the name of God, from the Inquisition to the "Kill a Commie for Christ" mentality, to demonstrate that intolerance, bigotry and cruelties of all kinds have been and continue to be more common to "religiously oriented" societies than to the few genuinely secular ones...
...turned to the $7.3 billion foreign aid bill, it was unexpectedly sympathetic to some of the Administration's arguments. Defeated, for example, was an attempt to attach strings on aid to international organizations, like the World Bank, to prohibit them from using U.S. contributions to assist Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Uganda. State Department lobbyists successfully argued that these agencies could not accept money with such conditions. Voting the restrictions, therefore, could force the U.S. to quit the organizations. Heartened by its victory on this issue, the Administration is more optimistic about the prospects for the rest of the foreign...