Word: indochina
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...issued warrants for the arrests of a Boston Globe reporter and the national coordinator of Medical Aid for Indochina Saturday, charging them with conspiracy in the air drop of food and other supplies last Tuesday at Wounded Knee...
...bombed through the night around Phnom-Penh, hoping to hold off the enemy and prop up the shaky, dictatorial regime of President Lon Nol. General Alexander Haig Jr., U.S. Army Vice Chief of Staff and former deputy to Henry Kissinger, was sent on a fast fact-finding tour of Indochina. While high Washington officials called the situation "abysmal" and "awful," President Nixon went off to ponder at Camp David−usually the prelude to an important announcement. Congressional Democrats fretted that the U.S. was about to bog down in still another quagmire...
...musical equivalent of Last Tango in Paris. But it seems to me that The Soldier's Tale comes much closer to bringing music into the twentieth century we know today, the century in which the common people--in the poems of Ezra Pound as well as the jungles of Indochina -- insist on asserting their rightful sway...
There are still companies with African investments paying taxes to and generally helping out racist regimes and colonial rule. There are still companies making money by supplying the equipment the military uses to teach the peoples of Indochina their place. There are still companies engaging in dubious political activities at home and abroad. And there are still companies whose products and plants could be considerably safer or whose wastes could be disposed of more cleanly. So the battle lines are drawn, it would seem, for some time to come. But the terrain does vary from year to year. This year...
...went to an antiwar rally in New York City's Flushing Meadow Park. There were only about 200 people at the rally, but since it was a nice day with a friendly atmosphere we mostly stretched out on the grass, feebly hoping that the speakers' assurances that peace in Indochina and big-name entertainment were both on the way would somwhow come true. Peace in Indochina is nearly as far off now as it was then; but the entertainment actually arrived in the shape of Pete Seeger, who spent an hour or so leading what he charitably called "the crowd...