Word: indochina
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...group is co-sponsoring the meeting with the New England Committee on Impeachment Action, a coalition of organizations working for Nixon's im- peachment. The groups include Americans for Democratic Action, The Indochina Peace Campaign and the American Civil Liberties Union...
...explain the fascination Vietnam exerted on people all over the world. People die of hunger in sub-Saharan Africa, brutally and unnecessarily, every day. Portugal's attempts to prevent its African colonies' gaining independence involve warfare as sustained and as all-encompassing as the war that swept Indochina. And torture of political prisoners, even U.S.-financed torture, isn't uncommon enough to cause much of a stir. It goes on more or less indiscriminately and without potent opposition (from Greece to Chile, where the followers of Guru Maharaj Ji joined the list of proscribed last week...
...makes sense to look at Vietnamese resistance before the American repression which followed it in trying to make sense of the old comparisons with Nazi Germany. And in view of the apparently invincible power the United States brought to Indochina, it makes sense to compare Vietnamese resistance--refusals to acknowledge the superiority of phalanxes of B-52s to a rabble in arms--to the best known previous resistance to apparently invincible power. The world's imagination was caught not by the suffering of the Vietnamese people but by its refusal to surrender in the face of suffering. The Vietnamese were...
Because it doesn't treat the trials as historical accidents with purely personal causes, Salem Possessed makes them weighty and comprehensible in a way traditional accounts cannot. It's the difference between a polemic about the Watergate scandals and a carefully written history of the Indochina war. Or between an attack on McCarthyism as the work of misguided fanatics and a reflective consideration of its roots in real conflicts between groups of people with genuinely conflicting interests. It's the difference between fairytale and history, melodrama and tragedy...
...some ways, Portugal's experience in Africa has resembled the U.S.A.'s in Indochina. In both cases, an empire past its peak sought to shore up its imperial defenses, regardless of the cost to the people it was fighting or even to its own people. Portugal, one of the poorest countries in Europe, spends half its budget on its African war, without counting the lives of its young men. There was even a Portuguese My Lai last summer: The Times of London reported in July that Portuguese troops has massacred 400 civilians in a small village in Mozambique...