Word: indochina
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...occasion of the remembrance organized this year by the Kent State Indochina Peace Campaign to protest the American war of aggression in Cambodia and South Vietnam and the crimes of the Nixon administration at Kent State and Jackson State--as well as at the Watergate--I would like once more to extend to the parents and friends of the four Kent State University students and to American people and students our militant solidarity, our muted and sorrowful condolences, and our profound and sincerest gratitude for their act of justice and support they gave the Cambodian people's just struggle...
...half months after the signing of the Paris peace agreement on Vietnam, American planes blew up, bombed, killed, massacred, razed, leveled, in a word undertook systematic genocide against the Cambodian people. The intensity of the bombing was carried further than ever before during the American war of aggression in Indochina or in the whole history...
...investigation, Nixon's "secret" bombing of Cambodia for three years, quietly dropped from their priority list a couple of weeks ago. Of course, if Congress cared as much about innocent people's lives as about electioneering dirty tricks, it would have impeached Nixon years ago for continuing the Indochina war. But it's still moderately disturbing to find that Congress's vision doesn't even go beyond tax fraud. It's enough to make you feel the way Thaddeus Stevens felt about the first impeachment of an American president--that by the time Congress finishes watering down his crimes...
...still remembered decade of student protest. This might make possible a sense of historical roots, of a tradition of student militance, which may be important despite whatever new sense of relaxation activism here has been showing. The American government has toned down the flagrancy with which it prosecutes the Indochina war, for instance. And there's been a decline in the claustrophobic feeling of personal guilt that made '60s radicals feel that insufficient militance today would mean the deaths of hundreds of Vietnamese tomorrow. But the Honeywell demonstration--which considerably surpassed its organizers expectations--suggests the influence memory...
...still need 1969's students' refusal to become part of a system designed to keep control of people's lives--by promoting invidious racial and sexual distinctions, by making concessions on minor points, by all the marketing techniques made possible by modern technology, and ultimately, as in Indochina, by killing people who insist on resisting. That's why it's still important to understand the real issues of 1969. The lawlessness and violence liberals complained of came mostly from the administration and the police, but even if that hadn't been so, laying exclusive stress on it would obscure...