Word: indochina
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...House Correspondent Dean Fischer began gathering background on Ford's deliberations during the President's recent eight-day working vacation in Palm Springs. Back in Washington last week, Fischer saw the White House mood turn sharply "from calm contemplation to grim apprehension" as the military situation in Indochina deteriorated. Pentagon Correspondent Joseph Kane, who filed on the plans for emergency evacuation of U.S. citizens and others from Saigon, found an atmosphere of bleak and open pessimism
Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter, who reported from Saigon for TIME in the mid-60s, noted the emotional wrenching that the events in Indochina worked on Americans with long involvement in South Viet Nam's fortunes. Many of Schecter's sources spent years "in country" as soldiers, diplomats or intelligence officers, and they feel a deep sense of loss. "The war is personalized for the Americans who served in Viet Nam," Schecter wired last week. "Somehow everybody feels that they did not do enough. None of the experts I talked to is blaming the Vietnamese in his heart...
...favorite adage of mine is: I'll forgive anything once, but almost nothing twice. If the U.S. pours $522 million in aid and arms into Indochina, it will be its second error of increasing its involvement, and therefore unforgivable...
...throughout the world, preferring conservative or authoritarian governments to forces of radical reform or revolution. While the Secretary of State has been able to shed the obsession with ideology in his dealing with the Soviet Union and China, he has been unable to do so in his relations with Indochina, Chile and Greece...
...economic independence," or sending "Wall Street" an unspecified "message," isn't much help either. The revolutionaries whose language the Commission takes over wholesale weren't just stealing phrases--they were reacting to their time's problems and responding to their country's contemporary, specific situation. Today, too, withdrawal from Indochina would mean more. But it is important that Ford's visit to New England not go unopposed. After all, history didn't stop...