Word: indochina
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...Viet Nam Veterans Against the War have a special flair for the symbolic: last spring they provided the searing spectacle of men angrily hurling medals won in Indochina against the U.S. Capitol. Last week, in quickly organized protest against the increased bombing in Viet Nam, they occupied briefly the South Vietnamese consulate in San Francisco, the Betsy Ross house near Philadelphia's Independence Hall, the Lincoln Memorial in Washington and the Statue of Liberty...
...Since then, 660 Americans of military age have applied for permission to live in Sweden. It is not automatically granted; the standards for acceptance set up by the Swedish government stipulate that the dodgers and deserters must demonstrate that they were very probably in line for shipment to Indochina. As a statement from the Swedish chapter of Amnesty International carefully points out: "We have helped draft resisters and deserters in a humanitarian way if they have been destitute. That's all. We haven't mixed in policy matters...
...during the Christmas holidays by ordering an escalation of the bombing of North Vietnam to the highest level of his administration. Nixon's escalation at this time indicates that despite a decrease in the number of American troops in Vietnam, the United States is still as deeply involved in Indochina as it ever was under Johnson...
...bombing also means an enormous and continuous loss of life among the Vietnamese, as well as the Laotians and Cambodians. With these most recent bombings, Nixon has now dropped a greater tonnage of bombs on Indochina than Johnson did during his term of office. All told, more bombs have been dropped in the Indochina war than in any war in history. Nixon has tried to sell the American public the myth that only military and strategic targets are being bombed. He fails to point out, however, that because we are fighting guerillas, U.S. strategy considers virtually all of Indochina...
Plucky Army. U.S. commanders need no convincing. Airpower is now considered to have been proved not only effective but essential in military terms, and it continues to have a devastating impact on civilian life in Indochina. Because of new techniques, including low-level "saturation" attacks, the effectiveness of airpower in stopping the flow of supplies down the Ho Chi Minh Trail has risen from a dismal 15% to a remarkable 85% over the past two years. Close air support, moreover, has saved Cambodia's plucky army from disaster in any number of battles...