Word: indochina
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Spartacus League representatives led a picket line while protesters chanted, "NLF won't stop now; onward to Saigon right now," and "All Indochina must go Communist." About 50 Greek Cypriots marched up and down the street carrying signs reading. "Turks-NATO Out of Cyprus...
...that the only issue related to Vietnam worthy or susceptible of discussion in the 1976 election was the familiar-standing question of Who Lost It. And if such discussion seemed unlikely to be taken seriously--as poll after poll showed overwhelming American majorities opposed to further military aid to Indochina--it seemed likely that that was because Americans were sick of the whole subject, and convinced that they themselves had little stake in what happened so far away...
This was testimony to the limited success of an antiwar movement that had increasingly insisted that American activities in Indochina called in question the whole political scaffolding on which they rested. And it was still more telling that the most important political figure still obviously concerned with what happened in Vietnam--as opposed to what happened in the United States--was President Ford, visibly moved by the influx of Vietnamese orphans and bewailing his lack of legal authority to continue bombing their country...
Dean Rusk, convinced that his and his colleagues' attitudes towards Indochina had been essentially correct all along, lamented this month humanitarian attitudes toward Vietnam in a series of lectures on the difficulties of foreign policy...
...North Carolina-born son of a Baptist minister, Martin, 62, has been a Foreign Service officer for 28 years. Far from being an Indochina hawk, he actually opposed American military involvement in Viet Nam in 1963, when he was serving as Ambassador to Thailand. "In fact," he insists, "my known opposition to using U.S. troops turned Thieu off when I first arrived." Says one former colleague: "In Bangkok, he was a real professional. He was one of the few ambassadors in that part of the world who could keep the U.S. military in their country under control. In Saigon...