Word: indochina
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...good Germans have to live with death camps, and the good Americans with Indochina. Stefan Kanfer in his review of Hearts and Minds [March 17] seems to squirm too much when he says it is all too simplified with too many easy shots about the uniqueness of American evil, the violence of our culture. O.K., are we ready to hang this dirtiest episode in American history on the leaders in the White House and Congress who kept it going? Who needs chronology and complexity...
...INDOCHINA. The swift and almost uncontested Communist offensive in South Viet Nam raised an unsettling question: Had 50,000 American lives and $150 billion in U.S. aid been spent in vain? The government of Nguyen Van Thieu was proving much weaker than had been thought, and the fast fallback of his forces approached an all-out rout. Obviously, U.S. intelligence about Thieu and his powers had been grievously faulty. First, the former imperial capital of Hue fell to the Communists; then so did five more provinces, bringing the total under their control to 13 (out of 44). But the real...
...MIDDLE EAST. In an area far more vital to U.S. strategic interests than is Indochina, the failure of Kissinger's mission dashed high U.S. hopes for the beginning of peace. For 17 days he had tried to persuade Israel and Egypt to accept further disengagement in the Sinai. Now the Geneva Conference on the Middle East will probably be reconvened, but it is likely to bog down and cause a stalemate that could lead to yet another...
...President seems ready to make a move in that direction. He will address a joint session of Congress on foreign policy next Wednesday or Thursday. By that time, he will have received the reassessments that he ordered of U.S. policy in Indochina and the Middle East. He also plans to talk about policy in Europe, Latin America, China and the Soviet Union. One purpose of Ford's speech will be to demonstrate that the U.S. is certainly not "resigning from the world" (as he put it earlier). Another will be to show to the world that he is in command...
...with a few favored Vietnamese families. As the plane lifted off the runway in a steep, powerful climb, there was a strange sense of irreversible change. These evacuees were among the last Americans to leave Danang, finally ending a presence that had once symbolized America's involvement in Indochina. There was a powerful sense of tragedy too: they were leaving behind not a people grateful for the years of American sacrifice in Viet Nam but a people feeling bitterly betrayed. Now, for better or worse, Danang will be left to the will of the South Vietnamese and the mercy...