Word: indochina
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...valid reasons for fearing that the Communist victories have created not just ripples but potential shock waves. Laos is already feeling the impact (see story page 28); Korea could be next, in the opinion of many South Koreans. "It is obvious that the Communists will attempt to create another Indochina situation in the Korean peninsula," noted a resolution adopted last week by the [South] Korean Newspaper Association. North Korean Dictator Kim II Sung has done nothing to alleviate the South's fears; in Peking last month he warned that "we are prepared for war. We will not hesitate...
Mutual Defense. Washington feels that Seoul's anxiety is at least slightly exaggerated; many experts expect Peking or Moscow (or both) to restrain Kim (TIME, May 12). Seoul, however, still has cause for concern. Communist victories in Indochina may so embolden North Korea that it will once again send its forces across the 38th parallel, perhaps gambling that South Korean President Park Chung Hee's repressive regime (TIME, April 28) has alienated the populace. Kim may also feel that the U.S., which has a mutual defense treaty with South Korea (backed by the presence of nearly...
...cruel trick of geography has wedged Laos, a land of 3 million delicate, gentle and innately pacific people, between powerful and antagonistic neighbors. With the Communist takeover of Cambodia and South Viet Nam, it is probably only a matter of time before Laos becomes the next Indochina state to fall to the Communists. Anticipating this, wealthy Laotians, Chinese and Vietnamese have already begun departing Laos in great numbers; planes are booked solidly, and scores of autos have lined up at the Vientiane ferry, waiting to cross the Mekong River into Thailand...
...awards over to Columbia President William J. McGill. It was an unnecessary copout. Apparently sensitive to past criticism, the 14 journalists and publishers on the Pulitzer board seemed to go out of their way to overlook a President's resignation, the CIA revelations, gathering disaster in Indochina and complex Middle East diplomacy in an effort to find relatively noncontroversial subjects for their awards...
...refugees should be allowed into the United States because many Americans--too many--bear more responsibility for war crimes in Indochina than even the most corrupt members of the Thieu and Lon Nol regimes. If justice is being sought for Vietnam war criminals, then the place to start is not with middle-echelon refugees, but with American policy-makers like Nixon and Kissinger, the men who engineered the Christmas bombing of Hanoi in 1972. And if the war has not taught us to distinguish policy-makers from those who carry out their plans, we should not screen out members...