Word: indochina
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...dying military, then, is best documented when the context is the rest of American society. In an earlier day the sailors would have been symbols and heroes; now they're rejects and they know it. Here it's not Indochina guilt that touches them--the pain is that they wouldn't understand that--but they are puzzled and defensive in the real world. Maybe the most interesting scene in the film is when the soldiers meet some pant-suited women in New York who take them back to a dope party. The movie can't resist making them into religious...
Alexander Haig was one of the generals who ran the Indochina war. In the last year, he's become one of President Nixon's chief advisers, helping to preside over the Nixon's administration's apparent attempts to obstruct the course of justice in the Watergate investigation...
...peace in the Middle East in the last few months doesn't bring to life the Indochinese children his foreign policy killed--and if his new diplomatic efforts are motivated by the same concern for stability, whatever its cost in human blood and aspirations, that lay behind his Indochina policy, they're not even reassuring for the future...
...exhaustive by any means, though it indicates the kinds of people an impartial system of justice ought to be looking into. There's no mention on it of Gerald R. Ford, for example. As minority leader of the House, Ford was consistent and instrumental in his support for the Indochina war. So were lots of other people, of course, but since Ford is now next in line for the presidency, he's a convenient and unusually important representative example. Ford's other public acts--his consistent opposition to social welfare programs and his call for the impeachment of Justice Douglas...
...European unity long before the Common Market came into being, warned that the U.S. would face an energy crisis if it did not deal more evenhandedly with the Arab nations, and decried Dulles' brinkmanship, arguing cogently for detente with the Soviet Union and against U.S. involvement in Indochina...