Word: indochina
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Unless a negotiated peace is arranged, the prospect is for an indefinite U.S. air presence in Indochina, involving as many as 30,000 men and costing up to $1 billion a year (current annual cost of the war: $6 billion). The irony is that the U.S., having extricated itself from a protracted ground war in Asia, may find itself committed to a less costly but no less enduring...
...suspects, however, that Tolstoy was right. War is irrational, and it is this aspect of the war that is so often lacking in the accounts written from and about the battlefields. Viet Nam has been at blazing war for 27 years. There is hardly a person anywhere in Indochina who has not been touched directly, in one way or another, by the fighting. Mothers have lost sons and daughters. Sons have lost fathers and mothers. Farms, homes, towns, cities have been destroyed. The draft touches every young man between 18 and 35 -except those who can bribe their...
...does not end, and does not even show signs of ending. A map of Indochina in 1954, with shaded areas marking Communist control, is so remarkably similar to a map of Indo china today that one is overwhelmed by the futility of it, the unspeakable inhumanity of it on both sides-or rather on all sides, since so many different factions and forces are at work here. North Viet Nam will not give up, Nixon will not give up, Thieu will not give up, the Russians will not give up. Everyone presses on-even the pitiable people of Viet...
...seem like it's a long way away, but it's as close as North Cambridge where Bolt, Beranek and Newman works on antisubmarine warfare devices. Its basic research on acoustics is useful in developing acoustic and seismic sensors used in Indochina. Parachuted from planes, the acoustic sensors become caught in trees where they pick up "enemy" conversations. Seismic sensors--disguised as tropical plants and animal droppings--detect ground vibrations caused by human movement. The information from both types of sensors is relayed to the central computer in Thailand, where it is used to determine bombing targets. (Although "people sniffers...
...close as Dorchester, where Keystone Manufacturing makes bomb fuse parts for Indochina. Many of the women who work there are black. Most don't know what they are making...