Word: indochina
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...sometimes been argued that there is no direct equation between an arms buildup and war. Until recently, the area importing the most arms was neither the Middle East nor Indochina, but the industrial nations of Western Europe?and they have been at peace for nearly three decades. It is also true that brutal combat does not require advanced weapons: the horrors of Europe's Thirty Years War of the 17th century, the U.S. Civil War and World War I testify to that...
...pattern of the arms trade has changed. Until recently, more than 70% of Washington's arms exports went to nations bordering on the Soviet Union, its allies and China (the so-called forward defense areas). NATO members, South Korea, Indochina and Taiwan are still major purchasers, but the U.S. now finds its biggest customers in the Middle East?first Iran and then Israel. Since the 1973 war, Israel has obtained more than $2 billion in supersonic fighter-bombers, tanks, bombs, anti-missile defenses for warplanes and thousands of tons of ammunition. Washington shipped so much weaponry to Israel that...
...less, while the Third World countries' import bill had soared to $7.7 billion. One reason: as East-West tension has ebbed in Central Europe, the areas of real and potential conflict have shifted to the Third World. Enormous quantities of arms were required by the fighting in Korea, Indochina and the Middle East, as well as Black Africa. After the wars of 1967 and 1973, both the Arabs and Israelis needed massive resupplies of warplanes, armor, missiles and electronic equipment. In the 1973 war alone, 600 warplanes and 2,700 tanks were destroyed and had to be replaced...
...news story, the war in Southeast Asia has lost much of its importance in recent years, but journalists have a compelling reason not to forget it. Twenty-three reporters and photographers are still missing in Indochina...
...those at the reunion were satisfied that either force or quiet diplomacy would bring the missing journalists back. Some Indochina hands argued that the prisoners would never be returned as long as the U.S. continued to prop up the Lon Nol government. Others were less political; Louise Stone -wife of Freelance Photographer Dana Stone, who was on assignment for CBS News-announced that she is preparing her own mission on foot through the area in Cambodia where her husband was last seen...