Word: indochina
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...Antonovs parked on the tarmac. On its fuselage was lettered United States of America. A team of top U.S. officials had flown in to discuss with Communist officials an issue that still stirs deep emotions among Americans: the fate of 2,553 U.S. soldiers still unrecovered from the Indochina...
...reputation and commitment to principle. To be harnessed, these qualities require authority backed by public confidence. But if Garment was right, authority inexorably would start draining from the presidency. The dream of a new era of creativity would in all probability evaporate. Even preserving what we had achieved-the Indochina settlement, for example-would become precarious...
Chomsky then leads us through a fascinating case study of the Vietnam war and how Americans perceived it. Much of the population, Chomsky says, believed U.S. intervention in Indochina was necessary and well-intentioned but that America, in the words of CBS anchorman Dan Rather, "got burned...
...asked the Nobel committee to donate the prize, totaling $65,000, to a scholarship fund for children of American servicemen killed or missing in action in Indochina. The Paula and Louis Kissinger Scholarship Fund, named for my parents, was established for this purpose. On April 30, 1975, as Saigon fell, I wrote to the Nobel committee, returning the Peace Prize and the equivalent of the cash award. The committee refused to accept them, replying that intervening events "in no way reduce the committee's appreciation of Mr. Kissinger's sincere efforts to get a cease-fire agreement...
...intended to stay long enough in 1973 to see the peace in Indochina established; to launch the new initiative toward the industrial democracies that came to be known as the Year of Europe; and to consolidate the new Moscow-Washington-Peking triangle. I shall never know whether I would in fact have carried out my intention. All our calculations were soon to be overwhelmed by the elemental catastrophe of Watergate...