Word: indochina
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...Eddie Adams, whose Pulitzer Prize photo of a 1968 street execution in Saigon is perhaps the most haunting image of the Indochina War, was named Magazine Photographer of the Year in the Pictures-of-the-Year competition. Adams also won prizes for several individual pictures, including a portrait of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat (TIME, May 20) and a photo of straining oarsmen in a boat race in Abu Dhabi (TIME...
Ford insisted that his Administration had no intention of sending U.S. troops back to Indochina. "All American forces have come home," he said. "They will not go back." But his strong pitch for more aid was based on two major worries. First, that a Khmer Rouge victory would lead to a bloodbath in Phnom-Penh. "The record shows in both Viet Nam and Cambodia," he said, "that Communist takeover of an area does not bring an end to violence but, on the contrary, subjects the innocents to new horrors." Secondly, Ford argued that a failure to supply more...
...Plunge. Despite the vehemence of Ford's statement, the Administration faces a stiff fight to get the Cambodian aid measure passed. Still, the President did pick up some support from seven Representatives and a Senator who returned last week from a whirlwind three-day fact-finding tour of Indochina. Several of the legislators looked more favorably on Ford's request than they had before the trip...
Like the countless other congressional missions to Indochina over the past decade, the most recent junket was a grueling, rapid plunge into the complexities of war and politics. There were mandatory visits with the heads of state, Nguyen Van Thieu in Saigon and Lon Nol in beleaguered Phnom-Penh. Congressmen William Chappell and John Murtha donned fatigues and trooped off to a Cambodian army post. After a tour of a huge refugee center set up in Phnom-Penh's unfinished Cambodiana Hotel, a shaken Millicent Fenwick, Republican Representative from New Jersey, said: "I can't believe this...
...part because of such encounters, some members of the delegation remained unalterably opposed to military aid for either Cambodia or South Viet Nam. In Phnom-Penh, New York Democratic Representative Bella Abzug, long a vocal opponent of U.S. involvement in Indochina, remarked: "I'm concerned about the humanitarian situation, the kids' bellies. The military situation was lost long ago." Minnesota Democrat Donald Fraser was more explicit: "In my judgment, the only thing we can do is help arrange for the orderly transfer of power to the [Khmer] insurgents...