Word: indochina
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...pledges to aid in reconstruction efforts, specifically in North Viet Nam, and also throughout Indochina, to repair war damage...
LAOS AND CAMBODIA. The U.S. hopes to achieve a cease-fire in Laos and Cambodia soon after the truce in Viet Nam. Although there is no provision in any version of the treaty that requires a cease-fire throughout Indochina, Kissinger contends that the required withdrawal of foreign troops from Laos and Cambodia and the prohibition of base areas there will bring about an end to military action in those countries faster than had been expected...
...Nixon Administration has been speaking in terms of dedicating $7.5 billion to Indochina's reconstruction over the next five years (including perhaps $2 billion for North Viet Nam). But such talk means little until the conflict ends. "You can't go around building dams while bullets whiz about you," says a State Department official. "What's the point of reconstruction if the battle goes...
...back as June 1948, Indochina was engulfed...
...Dong Dang that the Japanese had begun their invasion of Indochina in 1940. At that time the French government fired off an urgent plea to Washington for help. But President Franklin Roosevelt fired back: "The United States will not go to war for any Ding Dong." An apocryphal story, surely, but one that summed up America's hands-off policy in Indochina for a few more years at least...