Word: indochina
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Some presidential correspondents held out for a softer line on Indochina and other issues from the beginning. In 1961 letters to Kennedy, John Kenneth Galbraith, then ambassador to India and now Warburg Professor of Economics, advocated reassessing American interests in Laos, as well as Vietnam...
...year ago, when Richard Nixon agreed to a cease-fire in Vietnam, he promised the American people peace with honor, stable prices, and full employment. There is now neither peace in Indochina nor prosperity at home. Inflation in 1973 was more severe than it has been at any time since 1947. And the people are worried: Recent polls show that, as a national concern, inflation outranks Watergate...
...Japan had the resources to invest in modern plants which produced goods at low cost. After 1958, this foreign competition invaded markets at home and abroad and the U.S. began spending more money abroad than it was receiving. This balance of payments became serious with the escalation of the Indochina War in 1965. Now tens of billions of dollars flowed abroad to prop up the Saigon dictatorship...
...sensitivity to political ethics in the year after Watergate" meant Beame had to make assurance doubly sure, The Times explained, if he didn't want to face New York's aroused and angry people. After all, the Nixon administration's crimes have included five years (so far) of the Indochina war, from the ground war to the Christmas bombing to the secret bombing of Cambodia to building General Thieu's torturous prisons and continuing to finance his attacks on areas he doesn't control. And five years (so far) of subversion of democracy at home, from the Mayday internments...
...called the "symbiotic" relationship between Cambridge and Washington, in which professors turn into bureaucrats and back so fast you can't tell the players without a scorecard. Wasn't the Government Department's holding a chair for Henry a. Kissinger '50 for four years so he could supervise the Indochina war evidence of an important nexus? What about Bok's on-and-off commitment to a program of training officers for the state's Army? Or, the development in Harvard labs and offices of napalm and a theory of "forced-draft urbanization"--bombing villagers until they moved to cities where...