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...debate on Viet Nam has shifted to a new question: should the U.S. spend billions of dollars to help its former enemies? No specific sum has yet been requested, although unofficial estimates have gone as high as $7.5 billion over the next five years for the reconstruction of all Indochina. Congress is already balking at the idea, so both President Nixon and Secretary of State Rogers have tried to sell the concept as an "investment in peace." Most Americans appear to be caught in the middle, somewhat baffled at the prospect of paying taxes to rebuild what they so recently...
...recent press conference, the President honored those soldiers who sacrificed life and limb on the battlefields of Indochina. Just a week later, the Veterans Administration submitted "draft proposals" to Congress that would make a budget cut at the expense of those same war heroes. Veterans Administrator Donald E. Johnson said that the plan would lower payments for disability ratings held less than 20 years. Thus a Viet Nam veteran with a leg amputated at the hip would have his monthly compensation reduced from about $375 to $200; a veteran who lost his arm below the elbow would receive about...
...most painful waiting was done by those 1,300 families whose men are not on the lists, who are still missing in action. In Puyallup, Wash., Mrs. Emma Hagerman remains convinced that her husband, Air Force Colonel Robert Hagerman, is alive somewhere in Indochina, even though he has been missing for nearly six years. "One day I was feeling depressed," she said last week, "and I remembered that if you want a message, you should open the Bible and put your ringer on a verse." She opened the book to Jeremiah, which she had never read before. The text said...
Sullivan gradually became known to his colleagues as "Mr. Indochina," and he has fought to retain his pre-eminence in that field. "There are some bloodied noses around the department among those who tried to muscle in," notes one Asian specialist. Sullivan's knowledge of Indochina's politics is encyclopedic. One colleague recalls that, about two years ago, Sullivan "simply sat down and dictated to his secretary the basic paper that became the foundation for the 'leopard-spot' standstill cease-fire concept now agreed...
Kissinger's first diplomatic stop, in Bangkok, was partly a courtesy call upon a U.S. ally, Thailand's Premier Thanom Kittikachorn. But it also gave Kissinger and his top traveling companion, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State William H. Sullivan (see box), a chance to discuss the entire Indochina situation with the U.S. ambassadors to Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and South Viet...