Word: indochina
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Despite the sense of unreality that seems to pervade Phnom-Penh, the unresolved war in Cambodia has become the most crucial factor in the quest for peace in Indochina. If Cambodia falls to the Khmer insurgents, the Communists will gain easier access to South Viet Nam and thus be able to increase their pressure on the Saigon government...
Rogers maintained that the bombing was merely a continuation of longstanding U.S. policy in Indochina and a "meaningful interim action" in salvaging the ceasefire. To argue that the President had the constitutional authority to negotiate the Paris accord but does not have the power to continue the bombing in Cambodia, Rogers insisted, is to contend that "the Constitution contains an automatic self-destruct mechanism designed to destroy what has been so painfully achieved...
...Peace in Indochina last week continued to look rather ominously like war anywhere else. Fighting continued sporadically in South Viet Nam. Meanwhile, Communist forces in Cambodia continued to tighten the noose around the capital of Phnom-Penh, raising again the question of how long the bumbling government of ailing President Lon Nol could effectively survive. Amidst these signs that the cease-fire agreement has all but collapsed, the White House announced that Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger would return to Paris in mid-May for another round of talks with the silver-haired chief North Vietnamese negotiator...
...hands of French Indochina called it le mal jaune-a benign affliction that could turn even Paris boulevardiers into confirmed expatriates...
...find quick answers to America's role in my country. In the 60's, these experts attempted to justify the continuing U.S. agression in Viet-Nam. Nowadays, it is probably easier to rely on totally irrelevant information and try to rationalize the need of an American withdrawal from Indochina. Miss Fitzgerald occupies however a special place among these U.S. "experts." She covers her total ignorance of the Vietnamese situation, past and present, through a maze of explanations ranging from an irrelevant psychoanalysis of the Vietnamese to the simple use of meaningless big words...