Word: indochina
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...place of hard-working servants, white tablecloths, and wine-filled crystal; original paintings are on the walls, the Tour de France on the radio, and Maurice Chevalier on T.V. Laurent's older brothers amuse themselves through slapstick fights with the servants, light banter with their father over the Indochina War, and posing adolescent playboys...
Apart from the psychological impact of the U.N. China vote, the Senate rejection of aid hinged on longer-range considerations, including: THE WAR. Critics of the Administration's Indochina policies contend that foreign aid has been the forerunner of U.S. military involvement, and despite the Nixon Doctrine, this could happen again. They were sharply opposed, for example, to the inclusion of $341 million in aid to sustain the shaky government of Premier Lon Nol in Cambodia. They were also angered at the Administration's all-out and successful effort to defeat the Cooper-Church amendment, which would have...
...cancer; in Fairfield, Conn. A cum laude graduate of the Ernie Pyle school, Mecklin began covering the world's wars in 1942 as a correspondent for the United Press in the Mediterranean theater. Then, broadening his scope, he cabled his battlefield and political reports to TIME from Indochina and the Middle East. Mecklin's service as U.S. Public Affairs Officer chief in Saigon from 1962 to 1964 provided the background for his book, Mission in Torment, a widely praised account of the Viet Nam conflict's early years. Later, he became a member of FORTUNE...
...guerrilla movement....An authoritarian non-Communist regime can sometimes deal with an incipient revolt with the same massive retaliation technique....A democratic country simply cannot have recourse to such methods." One wonders if Ulam has heard of saturation bombing. Does he read the newspapers? Or does he glean his Indochina analysis from Presidential television speeches...
...will not do it tomorrow. Perhaps we will never be able to argue that we were in some way responsible for ending America's role in Indochina. But we must persist, we must remain visible, and we must understand that nothing is ever given--if we want it we must take it. Even if it takes a thousand years...