Word: indochina
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...first time in seven years, a week passed without a single U.S. soldier dying in combat in Indochina. But in that same week, ending Sept. 16, 4,625 North Vietnamese troops reportedly died, as well as 409 South Vietnamese soldiers. Another 1,710 ARVN fighters were hospitalized...
...military aircraft flew 1,590 sorties in South Viet Nam and 2,120 in North Viet Nam. The South Vietnamese flew another 883 sorties of their own in the South. There were an additional 230 B-52 bombing missions, mostly in the South. The tonnage of bombs dropped in Indochina by U.S. planes since Richard Nixon became President is nearly twice the amount dropped by the Allies in Europe, Africa and Asia in all of World War II. The number of civilian casualties, North and South, is unknown, but 600,000 displaced South Vietnamese still live in refugee camps...
...whose concerns are deeply human and deeply moral. As things are, we are putting our money where our myths are?like the myth of the domino theory?and we napalm little children and contravene the ideals for which this country was founded. We have lost our soul in Indochina, and this has created a fantastic crisis of confidence. People have lost faith in their Government, and the economy depends on confidence in our democracy." Nixon, says Willens, "is looking at the world through a rear-view mirror. Meantime these devastating problems are creeping up on us. We need leadership that...
...REST OF THE pamphlet's analysis tumbles out in a inevitably dreary procession. Robert C. Sramans '40, Secretary of the Air Force oversees the bombing of of Indochina between meetings of the Board of Overseers. Harvard engineering professors moonlight with war contractors. The University doubles as one of Cambridge's biggest landlords while giving the cits payments in lieu of taxes that amount to only a fraction of what it should pay were it taxed equiably. The hithert faceless men of the Governing Boards, who exercise almost absolute power over the affairs of the University, turn out to be successful...
Rumors of a cease-fire in Indochina circulated widely last night as presidential advisor Henry A. Kissinger '50 returned to Washington from a two-day secret meeting in Paris...