Word: indochinas
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...first time someone tested the constitutionality of America's peacetime military draft was during the undeclared war in Vietnam. The courts at that time ruled that a draft when the nation was at peace was constitutional. Without that ruling America's involvement in Indochina would have been very limited...
...three decades as a spokesman for his country in international forums, notably as chief delegate to the 1968-73 Paris peace talks with the U.S. and South Viet Nam and then as chief deputy to Le Duc Tho in the secret sessions that led to the U.S. withdrawal from Indochina; after a heart attack; in Hanoi. To former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who faced him across the Paris table, Thuy was "tiny, with a ) Buddha face and a sharp mind, perpetually smiling even when saying the most outrageous things," whose "job was psychological warfare...
...pictures from Viet Nam, but the costs did not seem worth it. NBC News spent an estimated $1.2 million for its live coverage, including four Today programs, with Bryant Gumbel as host, from Ho Chi Minh City. ABC News paid about the same, mostly for four Nightline shows from Indochina and reports on Good Morning America. CBS decided against live broadcasts, relying instead on taped segments (and spending only about $450,000). Howard Stringer, executive vice president of CBS News, said that his network believed live coverage in a restricted society like Viet Nam's promised to produce little news...
...that conflict, their position was comparable to that of the American soldiers who fought the Vietnam War. Both groups, he says, were forced by the draft or by duty to fight "aggressive, immoral ways." This comparison is an insult to history and to the soldiers who fought in Indochina. To the soldiers of the time, North Vietnamese Communists were totalitarian aggressors who had to be stopped, just as the Nazis were. Whether they were justified in this view is a question of history. The Vietnam War was misguided, wasteful in some cases conducted with criminal brutality...
FOOTNOTE: *The Capa medal is named for a LIFE photographer killed in Indochina in 1954. Rebbot was fatally wounded in El Salvador on a 1981 assignment for Newsweek...