Word: indochina
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...that the U.S. and its allies can no longer stop the Indochinese revolutionaries, Nixon will gradually turn to diplomatic methods to achieve his aims. But the more he delays the decision to do so, the less likely it is that he will be able to arrange that events in Indochina not be a factor in the November election...
...many would doubtless elect to come home, particularly as the years accumulate. As Mike Powers, spokesman for the American Deserters Committee in Sweden, says: "Sure we want to go home, but we won't until the U.S. stops all its bombings, until there's total withdrawal from Indochina and the people there are left in peace to decide their own future...
...Many deserters, perhaps a majority, are already being quietly discharged, mostly because many military commands are unwilling to go through complicated prosecution procedures. The most celebrated recent example was the case of eight sailors who deserted last October from the carrier Constellation as it made ready to depart for Indochina, and took refuge in a San Diego church. All received a general discharge from the Navy under honorable conditions, which carries no penalty and only slight stigma. Is it fair to let some go and not others, or to create a situation in which it is wiser to desert than...
...Viet Nam withdrawal strategy. Also known as "dynamic defense," a phrase coined by British Strategist Basil Liddell Hart in 1935, that strategy has come to mean the covering of the gradual U.S. pullout on the ground with an open-ended threat to use airpower any time, anywhere in Indochina...
Even so, it seemed that Richard Nixon had more than just dynamic defense in mind. With the President's Feb. 21 departure for China rapidly approaching, the attacks would reassure Washington's Indochina allies that they would not be sold out at the Peking summit. It was also hoped that the raids might counter any plans on Hanoi's part to bollix the summit. The White House reasoned that North Viet Nam's current offensive might have been designed to impress the Chinese with the fact that Hanoi will not sit still for any concessions...