Word: indochina
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...contrast between the Republican Convention and that of the Democrats in July transcends political beliefs--it goes beyond a platform for or against forced busing, beyond immediate withdrawal from Indochina, beyond tax structures--even though those beliefs are the foundation of November's choice. The contrast lies too in the Democrats' open platform hearings; in the uncordoned lobby of the Doral Hotel; and, in the movement of candidates and their staffs hustling for delegate votes and bargaining power. Most clearly, it lies in the composition and altitude of delegations...
...called liberals and the left have picked up the propaganda line from Hanoi about the dikes. Whenever Hanoi is hurt, it is amazing how these friends will scurry to her aid. The world should use every means possible to defend itself from Hanoi's barbaric acts in Indochina. Destroying the dikes could be a humane way to stop Hanoi...
...George McGovern declared: "Except for Adolf Hitler's extermination of the Jewish people, the American bombardment of defenseless peasants in Indochina is the most barbaric act of modern times." Last week he conjured up the Hitler analogy again. He accused President Nixon of being "at least indirectly" responsible for the invasion of the Democratic National Committee offices in Washington by five men last June (see story, page 20). McGovern later added that the incident was "the kind of thing you expect under a person like Hitler...
...failed in his promise to end the war, he has at least ended the American ground combat role; 500,000 Americans have come home, casualties have been reduced to fewer than ten a week. But the heavy bombing of North Viet Nam and other areas of Indochina goes on, and so does the killing of Asians. There still seems to be no early return in sight for the American prisoners of war in Hanoi's hands...
...Kissinger arced through his diplomatic trajectories, the Democrats churned up bitter disputes at home about the war. Returning from a two week trip to North Viet Nam as part of a commission inquiring into U.S. crimes in Indochina, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark testified to the devastation wrought there by American bombing. "I saw hospitals bombed, some just damaged, some destroyed," he told a San Francisco press conference. "We're bombing the hell out of that poor land. You better believe we hit dikes and sluices and canals...