Word: indochina
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...HARD enough to accept our son's death," says a letter President Nixon recently cited to demonstrate the humanity of his war on Indochina. "But to know it was all in vain would have been even more a tragedy...
...however appalling they found the prospect of indefinite misrule by the United States and its Vietnamese collaborators, it seems unlikely that the Vietnamese consciously chose a fifteen-year struggle for a juster society with full knowledge that their tremulous victory would be realized in an Indochina unrecognizable and half-destroyed. Though the Vietnamese might like to let a hundred flowers bloom we have defoliated the forests; and it is difficult to build anything with mutilated hands...
Actually, of course, amnesty means forgetting, and Nixon is right to reject this. That there was a saving remnant who would not fight for General Thieu is one of the few aspects of the Indochina war that we can be proud of. If we had any sense, we should shout it from the mountaintops...
...formal cease-fire on February 22. In Cambodia, American B52's have continued to bomb in support of that country's military dictatorship. And at the 13-nation peace conference in Paris, haggling over Saigon's refusal to release civilian political prisoners, over satisfactory funding for the reconstruction of Indochina, and over Hanoi's release of American POWs provide more diplomatic evidence that the struggle of Vietnam is far from over...
...this freedom should also allow them to speak independently without "Meet the Press" cramcourses from Nixon's public relations men. The Administration is using the POWs to hide many truths--the dishonor of America's imperialism, the tentative quality of the so-called peace in Indochina, the misery of America's wounded, widowed, and orphaned, cutbacks in support programs for Vietnam veterans, unjustified legal barriers against the return of those who would not assist in U.S. genocide, and, ultimately, the trail of death and of indiscriminate destruction which we have blazed--and still carve--out of Southeast Asia today...