Word: indochina
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...alone: Harvard professors Roger Fisher (Law), George Kistiakowsky (Chemistry, Emeritus). Tom Cheatham (Engineering and Applied Physics) and Edward Purcell (Physics) have served on committees advising the government on military strategy and technology. Fisher and Kistiakowsky are among the originators of the "automated battlefield" program which now blankers Indochina with blind, mechanized destruction. Harvey Brooks Dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, is on the board of Raytheon, the largest military contractor in Massachusetts--and this is only the most glaring of numerous interlocks between the Harvard faculty and local warmakers...
...GRATEFUL FOR THE opportunity to testify before this distinguished Committee on the origins and lessons of the Indochina...
...Against this backdrop, America's progressive involvement went through several very separate stages. First Washington acquiesced in the French return to Indochina and then financed the French war there largely for reasons that had nothing to do with Asia but rather, as Mr. Acheson and others have revealed, as the price required to win French participation in West European defense arrangements. (By 1954 that price totalled $4 billion.) But with the Communist victory in China. Washington developed a second rationale, namely, resistance to what was wrongly perceived as monolithic international communism: Peking and Hanoi as mere creations and puppets...
...inflicted today--on people in both Vietnams and in Laos and Cambodia by our intervention than would have occurred if we hadn't interveneo. Those who have warned for years of the impending "bloodbath" must face the grim reality of the daily bloodbath we have imposed on Indochina. Here, indeed, is one of the most striking cases in modern history of a cure far worse than the disease...
...Vietnam are defeating the invader. As long as it insists on winning, the U.S. can make no exit. Like a trapped rodent gnawing at its leg, Nixon is ripping apart his hopes for diplomatic triumphs in Moscow and Peking. Now is the time to push the U.S. out of Indochina. Now is the time to spring the trap...