Word: indochina
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...successfully forcing the Cambodians to surrender the ship and free the 39-man crew, Ford acted more firmly and decisively than at any other time in his presidency. By drawing the line against aggression in the Mayaguez incident, he put potential adversaries on notice that despite recent setbacks in Indochina and the Middle East, the U.S. would not allow itself to be intimidated. That action reassured some discouraged and mistrustful allies that the U.S. intends to defend vigorously its overseas interests. But the events of the week also raised a series of questions that are bound to be debated...
...fortunate also because President Ford had been hoping for weeks to find a dramatic way to demonstrate to the world that the Communist victories in Indochina had not turned the U.S. into a paper tiger. He had been searching for a means to show that the U.S. is now conducting what Secretary of State Henry Kissinger recently called an "abrasive" foreign policy. Even before the Cambodians seized the Mayaguez, one U.S. Government policy planner had told TIME, "There's quite a bit of agreement around here that it wouldn't be a bad thing if the other side goes...
Thus last week did the inexorable march of events sweep tiny Laos, to all intents and purposes, into the Communist camp on the heels of its neighbors in Indochina. So quickly had the Communist-led Pathet Lao consolidated their political and military power that even veteran observers of the sleepy, landlocked kingdom were surprised. "I thought they were going to draw it out," admitted a U.S. official. "But because of what happened in Cambodia and South Viet Nam, they saw no need to wait." Nonetheless, the end of the quarter-century war was typically Laotian. Another U.S. official described...
...Asia. The outlay contributed to rapid economic growth rates-more than 10% in South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines in 1973-and also to soaring overseas profits for both the multinational companies that pumped in the money and the banks that financed them. Now, in the wake of the Indochina debacle and the uncertainty surrounding U.S. foreign policy elsewhere in Asia, businessmen are starting what President Dorman Commons of the San Francisco-based Natomas Co., an oil firm active in Asia, calls "a major reassessment of the role of U.S. investment in the Pacific...
...Cambridge-based academics who participated in the antiwar movement in the '60s and '70s agree that the United States engaged in criminal activities in Indochina and that the war crimes issue remains a significant one, but differ drastically on the lessons to be drawn from American involvement in Indochina. Noam Chomsky, linguistics professor at MIT, says that if there were war crimes trials, they should focus primarily on the question of U.S. aggression against Vietnam and Cambodia. It would be naive to concentrate on the brutality of the U.S. war effort, Chomsky said in an interview last week, since...