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Among its parent organizations are the American Friends' Service Committee, the Indochina Peace Campaign, Clergy and Laity Concerned and the Greater Boston Peace Action Coalition--all of whom have representatives in the new group...
...here, too, the record is discouraging. The Senate, traditionally more receptive to antiwar feelings than the House, just passed a foreign aid budget in which the largest item was aid to Indochina--much of which will be used for military or police work...
Thirty years later, in June 1972, Fieser wrote a letter to President Nixon about the way the United States was using his invention in Indochina. "It seems to me desirable," he wrote, "to try to promote an international agreement to outlaw further use of naplam or naplam-type munitions...
Fieser received a reply the next month from Edward E. David Jr., Nixon's science advisor. David wrote that the uses of napalm by the U.S. army in Indochina were "difficult to predict or control," but assured Fieser that "your suggestion will be given very careful attention...
People "considered dangerous to the national defense and public security" can be imprisoned for a renewable term of two years. without trial. This is the most frequently invoked of all the decree-laws, according to the Indochina Mobile Education Project, because prisoners who are tried are sometimes acquitted...