Word: indochina
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...same time, spokesmen for the American Friends Service Committee and Medical Aid for Indochina announced a concert at Harvard on January 20 to benefit North Vietnamese hospitals destroyed...
...19th Committee stated that the demonstration will be held to urge a halt to all bombing in Indochina, American approval of the Nine Point Peace Plan, and an end to all aid to the Thieu regime...
With targets that close to populous or off-limit areas, like hospitals, and with more than 1,400 sorties being flown in the first week alone of the two-week operation by virtually every kind of Air Force and Navy plane in the Indochina arsenal in every kind of weather and through the densest aerial defenses in the world, mistakes were inevitable. Particularly with the massive (100 a day) use of B-52s-each group of three lays its bombs in a row of "boxes" a mile and a half long by half a mile wide-civilian casualties were inescapable...
Until the current bombing campaign, only one B-52 had been lost in combat in seven years and 100,000 sorties in Indochina. Yet in the past two weeks, 15 were lost-each with a crew of six, most of whom are listed either as missing or captured. Why the high toll? First, as Air Force spokesmen are quick to point out, the B-52s were invading the "most heavily defended antiaircraft area in the world"-at least in conventional-weapons terms. Since the October bombing halt, the Soviet Union has shipped enormous quantities of missiles and improved radar systems...
Patullo's plan would further reduce Harvard to the status of academic servant to a dehumanized social system, a debilitating position it is already assuming more and more. What Patullo calls Harvard's symbiotic relationship with leading echelons of American society." In fact, describes why American destruction of Indochina, has from the outset, been supervised by Harvard professors...