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...their credo from Robert Capa, the legendary photographer best remembered for his stunning LIFE shots of the troops landing on Dday, "If your pictures aren't good enough," he used to say, "you aren't cose enough." In 1954, Capa became the first photographer killed during the Indo-China...
...were right, Mr. Nixon, you were right," he says sadly, shaking his head. "We blew it. Let me speak for my whole generation and apologize for hindering your efforts to seek a just peace in Indo-China and indeed the world. If only...if only we had stuck to football and surfing and let you do your job like loyal Americans...will you ever forgive...
...number of refugees entering the U.S, has more than tripled during the 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...
When the Vietnam War ended in 1975 it was hard for many people in the anti-war movement to realize that what they had been participating in was just that--a movement to end the American military presence in Indo-China. Many tried to maintain the energy of the movement, but without a concrete focus the previously united activists drifted away into their own areas of interest. Even the U.S. complicity in the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Chile was unable to revive the old coalition...
Upon returning from Vietnam Worthy wrote an article, "Our Disgrace in Indo-China," which appeared in the NAACP newspaper, The Crisis, just two months prior to the French collapse in 1954. "It was strictly a matter of writing what anybody with two eyes could see," says Worthy, "unless blinded by U.S. nationalism and blatant patriotism. America was doomed from the start...