Word: indochina
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...Each talks of growing friendship and cooperation with the U.S. Ironically, this situation could find us, at the final Vietnamization and withdrawal of U.S. troops, shaking hands in friendship with two nations who have significantly contributed to the death and wounding of tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers throughout Indochina...
...kidnapers, according to the letter, would also demand the end of B-52 bombing in Indochina and the release of "political prisoners" held in U.S. jails, apparently a reference to youths convicted of draft evasion and crimes related to radical activities. The letter indicates that the writer had no illusions that the demands would be met. But if the plot were not attempted, it said, someone else might do it "badly," and it would "end in fiasco or violence & killing...
Protest against the war in Indochina will continue today, as demonstrators attempt to shut down Boston's JFK Federal Building...
...count on some dark pieces of statutory authority for use in civil emergencies. Federal law permits the President to take over the airwaves-radio and TV-for the duration of ambiguously defined crises. It is less clear what federal statute has allowed the Administration to censor news from Indochina, but the American press has so far graciously ceded this legal right. But once again, why bother with statutes, anyway? Since the Constitution conveniently passes over the subject of martial law, the President can indeed claim considerable authority inherent in his office as commander-in-chief. Not only can he call...
...escape all responsibility, as he has in the past. The Gourvevitch-Roberts approach permits one professor to be censured or dismissed for shouting down speakers in Sanders Theatre, while the Government Department goes out of its way to welcome back another professor after he has completed the destruction of Indochina. The justice of such an outcome escapes...