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Another obstacle: many aspiring individual sponsors are regarded by the voluntary agencies as unqualified to take responsibility for a refugee family. The Interagency Task Force for Indochina Refugees in Washington has been screening 22,000 inquiries received through its toll-free phone lines. "I'd be very pleased if 5,000 sponsors resulted from those inquiries," says Joseph Battaglia, head of the U.S. Catholic Conference office at California's Camp Pendleton. Explains Stahlke: "We're getting a lot of screwballs who are more interested in their own purposes than in the refugees. Some seek cheap labor; others...
...went on to criticize American foreign policy toward the Soviet Union. The U.S., he said, should never have cooperated with the Russians in any way, not even in forming the alliance against Hitler during World War II, and he implied that the U.S. should still be fighting Communism in Indochina...
Slowly but unmistakably, the nations of Asia are adjusting to the Communist conquest of Indochina. That event has forced all nations of the region, including China and the countries on its vast periphery, to re-examine their relations with one another and with Washington. Last week Thailand-a member of the Association of South East Asian Nations, once regarded as a barrier to Chinese Communist expansion-followed the Philippines and Malaysia in establishing formal diplomatic relations with Peking. TIME'S diplomatic editor Jerrold L. Schecter completed a tour of Asia that included many of the affected capitals. His report...
...difficult question facing the Japanese is their strict three-part ban on the manufacture, possession and introduction of nuclear weapons into the Japanese islands. But if South Korea or Taiwan, feeling that its own security has been weakened by the U.S. withdrawal from Indochina, develops its own nuclear weapons, sentiment could rapidly change in Japan. Thus the U.S. nuclear umbrella over South Korea assumes new importance...
...COMMUNIST VICTORY IN VIET NAM: The fall of the Saigon government was a retreat of American power. Recent developments in Indochina have obviously heightened the possibility of the North Korean Communists' provoking a war by miscalculation. The North Koreans could launch an all-out attack, but that is not feasible without help from Red China or the Soviet Union. They could also wage a limited war for limited objectives: a thrust across the DMZ, an attack on the five islands in the Western Sea, or the infiltration of guerrillas and subversives. On Jan. 21, 1968, they tried to attack...