Word: indochinas
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...Brown denied his advocacy of increased bombing over Hanoi and Haiphong while Secretary of the Air Force in 1968, and stated that it was only one of several alternative proposals he had put forward. He failed to mention that his other two proposals also called for increased bombing of Indochina. The Pentagon Papers also reveal Brown did in fact advocate the first plan and that a year before this he had played the major role in dissuading McNamara from limiting the bombing of North Vietnam...
...downright deceit and the huge buildup from small beginnings in Viet Nam are bitterly remembered, the comparison between Angola and Viet Nam is alarmist and simplistic. For one thing, or so the Administration argues, the levels of aid differ enormously. In 1954, the year the French pulled out of Indochina, for example, the Eisenhower Administration asked Congress for $500 million to aid the region's anti-Communist fighting forces. Ford and Kissinger have assured Congress that the U.S. will not send advisers or troops to Angola, and Washington's goal has been...
...jungle capital of Viengsay (Victory City). There he dutifully abdicated the 650-year-old monarchy, and the People's Democratic Republic of Laos was officially declared. Thus, after 30 years of almost continuous war among themselves, and against France and then the U.S., all the peoples of Indochina had finally fallen under solidly Communist regimes...
...Minh's. It remains to be seen whether they will try to turn sleepy Laos into a miniversion of monolithic North Viet Nam, or whether this little country will remain open to the West-a "Communist Liechtenstein," as one observer puts it, in the midst of Indochina...
...issue, when President Ford announced that the United States had retaken the freighter Mayaguez after Cambodia had seized it. Karnow then wrote a two-paragraph editorial, that was mildly critical of U.S. policy and said that the military operation was staged "to rescue U.S. honor in wake of the Indochina debacle...