Word: indochina
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Labor unions are the most powerful institutional force on the left in America today. Powerful labor support for civil rights legislation and the Haynsworth and Carswell defeats indicate an openness for reform action. Labor support for the Indochina war is more a function of loyalty to labor's dying sons than it is support for an imperialistic foreign policy. McGeorge Bundy and Lyndon Johnson started the war, not Walter Reuther or George Meany...
...poor choice for the editorship. Led by Richard Falk, professor of international law and practice at Princeton, the dissidents lodged a protest with David Rockefeller, chairman of the council board. Said Falk: "Mr. Bundy's role in planning and executing illegal and criminal war policies in Indochina should disqualify him, at least for a period of years, from holding an editorial position of this kind. To reward a former governmental official who was deceitful toward the public and Congress in this way directly contradicts the entire Nurnberg tradition...
...profoundly convinced," he told Nixon in his letter of resignation, "that the policies you have sponsored in respect to the settlement of the problems [of Southeast Asia] have been sound and constructive. It is [our opponents], and they alone, who bear responsibility for the continuation of the war in Indochina...
...sovereignty over Taiwan must be recognized, that the U.S. treaty with the Nationalists is "illegal, null and void," that Peking alone must represent China in the United Nations, that the U.S. must withdraw not only from the "dirty war" in Viet Nam but "also from the whole of Indochina...
...correctly diagnosed the power and potential of Mao Tse-tung's Chinese Communist Party and urged that the U.S. make an early accommodation with it. Had this been done, they contend-and many observers agree-the U.S. might have been spared two wars-in Korea and Indochina. Drummed out of the service at that time for their views, they now see the wheel of U.S. policy come ironically full circle under Nixon...