Word: indochina
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...days were so full of shocks and surprises that editors had a hard time remembering a week like it. The U.S. and the world were trying to pick up the pieces after Henry Kissinger's failed Middle East mission. Saudi Arabia's King Faisal was assassinated. In Indochina, the Cambodian government seemed helpless, while President Nguyen Van Thieu's panicking army yielded province by province to North Vietnamese troops. Portugal, a member of NATO, was continuing its slide leftward. All of this presented serious problems for a U.S. recently too preoccupied with the recession...
...interpretation of the stalled Middle East negotiations, while Correspondents Wilton Wynn in Cairo and Karsten Prager in Beirut reported Arab views and reaction to Faisal's death. From Washington, Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter and State Department Correspondent Strobe Talbott contributed to an analysis of how setbacks in Indochina and the Middle East may affect the future of the Secretary of State. The special section is illustrated by four pages of color photographs, including a remarkable picture of Faisal's simple sand-and-stone grave by TIME'S Eddie Adams...
...rest of the world really losing confidence in America because of events in Indochina? The evidence so far suggests otherwise. Most of the world some time ago absorbed the long-overdue U.S. decision to cut its losses in Southeast Asia, after an enormous and tragic effort. Many of America's friends indeed were relieved, and still are, hoping that the U.S. will henceforth be freer to concentrate on other areas and problems. Confidence in America ultimately depends not on the aftermath of Viet Nam but on how firmly and wisely the U.S. acts elsewhere...
...commitments. Indeed, one Israeli diplomat last week confirmed the fact that "the cloud of Viet Nam increases our intransigence." The Syrian Baath party newspaper Al Baath, with Israel obviously in mind, crowed that "the U.S. is not a reliable friend." But most diplomatic experts doubted that the problems of Indochina had any real impact on Kissinger's peace-keeping mission...
...time for Americans to help heal the wounds of Indochina, and it is time for the U.S. to recognize the failure of its foreign policy in Vietnam and Cambodia. When Congress makes the final decision on U.S. military and to Cambodia and Vietnam on April 10 it should say "no" to support for their corrupt regime and it should say "no" to continuing the strife of those peoples who have not known peace on self determination in two generations...