Word: indo-china
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...mistake. One group has proposed legislation for a genera amnesty. "The National Committee for Amnesty Now" calls for "the full restoration of all civil, political, and property rights" for people under or subject to prosecution "for not complying with any duty to serve in the Armed forces in Indo-China or for engaging in any activity in protest of the Indo-China or for engaging in any activity in protest of the Indo-China...
...American theoreticians led by John Foster Dulles (and lauded by Congressman Richard Nixon) calculated that the spread of communism had to be stopped from reaching South East Asia, gold mine for new international markets and cheap labor. Without hesitation, America stepped up its support of the French war in Indo-China and took over the load in 1954. Later in the 60's, Secretary of State Dean Rusk staunchly supported this dual policy of containment of China and "protection of American interests...
...negotiation with the North can result in rapid or early demobilization of this force. The best planning assumption seems to be military stalemate and withering away of the war, a process that can last for a decade or more (unless an international body undertakes to keep the peace in Indo-China by maintaining a military presence there...
Kissinger's first act as Nixon's advisor was to commission an options memorandum on the progress of the war in Vietnam; he began work on the study as early as December 1968. In the months preceding the study, the military state of affairs in Indo-china had been the subject of a raging controversy inside the various departments. The outgoing Presidential advisors and the upper crust of Washington's foreign service were claiming that the NLF had grown significantly weaker since the Tet offensive the previous February, that the Communist military campaign would fold in a matter of months...
...revolutionary left do not present such an immediate threat to the lives and consciences of Harvard's graduating class as the policy of the present United States Government towards Indo-China and if, as President Pusey stated, he believes that the graduating class, as Harvard men, are called to serve a world of "reason, modesty, charity and trust." he might have shown some articulate understanding of the world these young men will be forced to serve by law when they graduate if they are drafted. It has little to do with reason, modesty, charity or trust and is considerably more...