Word: indochina
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...Canada's Mitchell Sharp, who had urged that some "standing authority," such as the United Nations, be empowered to act on cease-fire violations. He said that Canada, long frustrated by its participation in the International Control Commission that was supposed to police the 1954 Geneva agreement on Indochina, will decide within 30 days whether to pull out of the new ices...
Precisely how-or even if-the Administration's proposed cuts will further disadvantage the veterans is still unclear. Last month the VA proposed to reduce the payments to some 225,000 physically disabled veterans who have been out of service less than 20 years -predominantly the victims of Indochina's land mines and booby traps. Though the plan also would have increased payments for psychological disabilities on the grounds that they are more of an impairment to employment, the idea met with such outrage that President Nixon shelved it, at least temporarily. The Administration also fired Olney...
Antiwar activists, particularly the Clergy and Laity Concerned (CALC), have maintained that Honeywell produces several types of bombs and sensor devices used against the people of Indochina. The company has denied the charge...
Harvard has sold its holdings in Honeywell, Inc., which played a controversial role in developing weapons used by American troops in Indochina. The sale was apparently for financial reasons...
...January accord had a meaning, unlike the recent exercise in Paris. That agreement did stop American air aggression over the North, and for that we are thankful. And it did open the possibility, admittedly slim, that the United States might do something constructive in Indochina for the first time in recent history. And to pursue that constructive aim, we hope that American participation in Indochinese economic aid will not be curtailed...