Word: indochina
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...peace plan, and a determination to preserve it by whatever concessions necessary on the part of the United States, there are several issues our government must address in order to make our future participation in the affairs of Vietnam more regenerative than destructive. Just as arms shipments into Indochina from all foreign sources should be stopped, all American military aid to Thieu should be cut off, and any assistance that will bolster his influence over the non-governmental council of national reconciliation should be held back. That council, composed of neutralists, members of the N.L.F., and elements of the current...
Americans must not be lulled into self-congratulation by the President's assertions that American involvement in Vietnam has been "one of the most selfless enterprises in the history of nations:" our part in the ravagement of Indochina and the sacrifice of Asian and American lives can never be explained away by our willing support of a string of corrupt regimes. Now that the fighting is about to stop, we must urge Congress to turn off the military pipeline to Thieu, to insist on the release of political prisoners, and to prevent further American intervention in the political future...
...forgive Lyndon Johnson? What did we suffer at his hands? Pardon must come from the victims: the people of Indochina. But in evaluating the man, we might well look at his successor, who has pursued with passion Johnson's great mistake abroad and dedicated himself to tearing down at home all the ideals of a Great Society...
...ensure a lasting peace in Indochina, we urge President Nixon to sign the October agreement immediately, to abide scrupulously by all its provisions, and to renounce publicly any subsequent military intervention in Southeast Asia." The resolution was sent to the White House on Sunday...
...NIXON ADMINISTRATION did nothing to alleviate the seriousness of the Indochina war in the first years. After the 1970 invasion of Cambodia. The Crimson covered the activities of the Harvard people who went to Washington to lobby, for peace. Michael E. Kinsley '72, would win a Dana Reed, Prize and national reprinting for his article on the Harvard Faculty who went to the Capital to confront their old colleague, Henry Kissinger. The Spring brought riots as well, spinoffs from large scale antiwar demonstrations in Boston which caused damage of varying degrees to Harvard Square...