Word: indochina
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...bolster its ranks the Troisième sent recruiters to. London to enlist Frenchmen who had escaped from the occupied mainland. After parachuting into France, the force went on to take part in the jubilant liberation of Paris. In 1948 the Troisième was sent to Indochina, where it was cited for bravery in the battle of Dien Bien...
...demonstrators ransack the "military-linked" Center for International Affairs (CFIA), causing some $20-25,000 in damage during the evening's destruction. Meanwhile, campuses across the nation mobilize as student groups, newspapers, and the National Student Association call for a nationwide strike opposing the escalation of the war in indochina...
...though deriding the students' use of force, promises not to forcibly evacuate the building saying. "I would never do anything to hurt a student in this University." That evening, some 2000 students gather in Sanders Theater and overwhelmingly vote to support PALC's demands and protest U.S. involvement in Indochina with a strike...
Since Saigon fell to the Communists in 1975, more than 1.2 million people have fled Indochina, most of them risking perilous journeys overseas in rickety fishing craft. Horrified by the plight of the boat people, a number of countries in Asia and the West liberalized their immigration policies to accommodate the flood of refugees. American policy has been one of the most generous: as of March, 589,000 of the homeless had been resettled in the U.S., compared with 593,000 for the two dozen other nations accepting refugees. Last week, however, Washington announced a more restrictive policy...
...they can prove they are political dissidents. In an explanatory message to the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva, the State Department argued that the U.S. does not have "an unlimited capacity to absorb all of those who depart their homeland in Indochina...