Word: indochina
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...still simmers on in Southeast Asia. It has been more than two years since Communist forces conquered South Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia, but Indochina's new regimes continue to face tenacious internal resistance. Some Indochinese resist by becoming refugees. The harsh economic conditions and political repression in their homelands are so unbearable that they will take extraordinary risks in hopes of finding refuge abroad (see following story...
...even moral encouragement (and there is absolutely no evidence of either), even the aggressive rebels of Laos will eventually succumb to superior forces. Still, the Communists are discovering, as French colonialists and U.S. administrators learned to their sorrow, that it is a lot easier to proclaim a government in Indochina than to operate one successfully...
Equally inhospitable, at first, were authorities in Taiwan: they put a police cordon around the ship to prevent anyone from getting off. Prospects for the refugees were equally poor at the Yuvali's next port of call, Yokohama, Japan has consistently refused to admit escapees from Indochina unless the United Nations or another country agrees to take the refugees off its hands quickly. Most Asian states will accept them-temporarily-only if there is no other way they can survive...
...Americans know that during the '50s the Central Intelligence Agency was operating covertly in Guatemala. And after the 1954 battle of Diembienphu, they failed to realize the significance of then vice president Richard M. Nixon's speech warning the country to be prepared to send troops to Indochina, Ellsberg says...
...very experience that makes Kissinger so attractive to university administrators seeking big names for their faculties brought death and destruction to millions of people around the world, teaching them to hate and fear the U.S. Among other things, Kissinger can be held responsible for the expansion of the Indochina War into Cambodia in 1970, the Christmas carpet bombing of Vietnam in 1972 and the CIA-supported coup in Chile...