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McCloskey's strongest issues concern the Vietnam War, the military complex and the Nixon administration. He sees the Indochina War as the ultimate tragedy of Americans using their power against a people with whom they have no gripe. The tragedy is also a military one. "You can't run a retreat like this. Nobody wants his legs blown off in the last day of a war to save the president's pride." Sadly, bitterly, he explains that the Vietnam War is just that--a desperate effort to save the pride of a President. "He's got to be number...
Signer recently returned from the International Conference on Medicine and the Indochina War, which convened Saturday and Sunday in Paris, to discuss medical difficulties caused...
Weapons American forces are using in Indochina are "clearly designed not to kill, but to maim," Signer said. He added that there is "mounting evidence" that defoliants, used heavily in the war, came birth defects...
About 200 doctors and scientists from 20 nations attended the conference. Many of these have made serious efforts to improve health and medical services in Indochina in the past few years, Signer said, and have achieved an "admirable success" despite a lack of resources. "A systematic, planned attempt by the U.S. to bomb hospitals" has severely impeded those efforts, he added...
...Peace Coalition, which sent Signer to the conference, plans to initiate fund-raising activities for medical aid to Indochina. Signer said reports by delegations from Southeast Asian nations convinced him that Americans are making only "very modest" contributions of medical aid to that area...