Word: indochina
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Since President Nixon took office, however, 3,000,000 tons of U.S. bombs have been dropped in Indochina -slightly more than the total dropped in the last three years of the Johnson Administration. During the past ten months, the tonnages have begun to decline fairly rapidly. But the bombing is still substantial, particularly in the Laotian-North Vietnamese border area around the key mountain passes through which the North Vietnamese push troops and supplies into the war at the advent of each dry season...
While the air war reaches peak intensity throughout Indochina and fighting accelerates in Cambodia, it may be wholly inappropriate to discuss two of the so-called "humanitarian" problems: prisoners of war and forced civilian relocation...
...result of the intensification of the war in Indochina and of the air war in particular, the North Vietnamese government has ordered its people to build bomb shelters in the event of B-52 raids. During a recent visit to Peking, North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong hinted that he expects that the U.S. will again threaten to use tactical nuclear warheads. Meanwhile, the prisoners of war languish, and Saigon is planning forced relocation of large numbers of civilians...
...studied Boston-area companies which it contends are contributing to the automated air war in Southeast Asia. The group's leaflets stated it is visiting these companies "in order to inform the employees and the surrounding community about the relationship between these companies and the continuing horror of the 'Indochina...
...truth because of a new policy or a new leader, and most of all because it reflected Stone's own gentle, optimistic belief in the American Constitution and the American people. Throughout the repressive ness of the Fifties, the slick doublethink of the New Frontier, the genocidal madness in Indochina and the ghetto, Stone has never ceased to point out that the American spirit did not demand war and orthodoxy, and has never despaired that freedom and justice are possible...