Word: indochina
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...week after President Nixon revealed his eight-point Viet Nam peace proposal, Maine Senator Edmund Muskie pronounced the plan unworkable and set out his own formula for getting the U.S. out of the war. Instead of Nixon's stipulations-a cease-fire throughout Indochina and new South Vietnamese elections-Muskie said that the U.S. should simply set a firm pull-out date in return for the safety of withdrawing forces and the release of American prisoners of war, leaving Saigon to work out its own accommodation with the Communists or else forgo further...
Diverse Talents. What the President's latest surprise announcement did achieve was to throw his antiwar critics off balance at a time when the frustrating struggle in Indochina seemed to be reviving as a domestic political issue (see box, page 17). He noted that the conciliatory steps demanded by many Democrats had already been taken by him in private, and he assailed those in the U.S. who "have become accustomed to thinking that whatever our Government says must be false and whatever our enemies say must be true." Kissinger readily conceded afterward that "a very major objective" of the President...
...larger context, the triumph over ROTC meant little. At most it gave us a good feeling to have destroyed the crudest connection between our University and the war machine. But our strike did nothing material to slow up the flow of soldiers and pilots to Indochina: faced with loss of certain Ivy schools, the Pentagon quietly moved into colleges which it had previously considered unworthy and revamped its student training programs so that they would not require term-time campus training. And the abolition of ROTC left untouched the many more important ways in which Harvard serves the military. They...
MOST U.S. military men would insist that such a scenario is Hanoi's wildest dream, not Washington's probable nightmare. But almost overnight, the battlefield situation in Indochina has quickened to the point where the Administration is reminding people that there is still a war going on. In Saigon last week, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker flatly warned a group of businessmen to expect "heavy fighting before long." In Washington, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird recently said that the Communists have "advertised an offensive as they have advertised no other offensive in Viet Nam." The White House has been encouraging such...
...North Vietnamese leaders, who seem to be convinced that the same antiwar genie that toppled Lyndon Johnson in 1968 can be rubbed back to life and turned against Richard Nixon this year. That suggests that, much as the U.S. misread the North Vietnamese when the massive American intervention in Indochina began, the North Vietnamese may now be misreading...