Word: indochina
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...Malaysian government still will not permit the refugees stranded on the overcrowded, unsanitary vessel to be quartered ashore. Local officials want the Vietnamese to be transferred directly from the ship to an airport for flights to their new homes. The U.S., which has already admitted 150,000 refugees from Indochina, seeks a different solution. To help the Hai Hong homeless, the U.S. Attorney General approved an increase of 2,500 above the annual refugee quota of 25,000 for the year ending next May 1. But the Carter Administration wants to take the refugees at the head of the queue...
...just simple myopia that has caused Vietnam to disappear from the American view. Embarrassment and guilt have made it easy to focus on other parts of the world, and think of Indochina, if at all, as a minor adjunct to some other problem, somewhere else...
...GOALS that the U.S. has in the region are buried beneath the weight of the Carter administration's big-power calculus. The paramount U.S. interest in Indochina today is stability to preserve the non-socialist regimes that remain, and stability to insure the safety of Japanese and American trade throughout the region. But without normalization the United States forfeits its influence in the area. As a Congressional Research Service study noted, "Vietnam is essential to any regional arrangement for resolving conflicts and preserving peace in Southeast Asia...
...against Indochina ranks as one of this century's most horrible atrocities. More explosive power was rained upon the Vietnamese countryside than was used in all of World War II; anti-personnel weapons were designed solely for their ability to maim; carcinogenic, fetus-deforming chemical defoliants blanketed half of Vietnam's arable land...
They had a pleasant long chat, during which they agreed that the state of affairs in the world had taken a turn for the worse since the early 1970s. The were both pleased that the Indochina War had ended, but they acknowledged that evil was still widespread--and people seemed less willing to fight it. And Mrs. Butterfield was worried about her husband, Lyman H. Butterfield, professor emeritus of History, who had not been well...