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...claimed last October 3 at an AFL-CIO convention, that Israel is hated by the third world because it is a democracy. Moynihan did not mention the question of Palestinian refugees, the economic inequities visited on underdeveloped nations by Israel's chief backer, U.S. policy in Chile and Indo-China or the consistent support of the American government for South Africa and Rhodesia. Moynihan's reason for third world hostility toward this country sounds like something from the American right's glory days of the early 50s: "Such has been the success of Communist arms, Communist intrigue, Communist treachery...
...military establishment anxious to restore its credibility after its astounding failure in Indo-China, a Persian Gulf intervention would appear to offer a unique opportunity to redeem past failures by satisfying the compulsion to find and fight a conventional enemy according to conventional ground rules...
After the"benign neglect" flap, Moynihan stayed out of the limelight until Nixon made him Ambassador to India in 1973. Arriving in New Delhi at a time when Indo-American relations were at their lowest ebb?in the wake of the U.S. tilt toward Pakistan in its 1971 war with India?Moynihan wisely decided to keep an uncharacteristically low profile. He stayed close to his official residence, Roosevelt House, which he loathed; he gave private showings of John Ford films to American visitors, and made only one or two speeches. The restraints of the New Delhi post have made...
...months ago, Fort Chaffee was the ninth largest city in Arkansas. Just before Christmas, 25 Vietnamese men, women and children boarded an army bus and headed for Tennessee, reducing the Fort's refugee population to zero. Three other resettlement camps, through which more than 130,000 Indo-Chinese refugees passed, are also virtual ghost towns. This week, the first phase of the $500 million-plus resettlement effort officially came...
...RELATIONS WITH INDIA: We have moved forward in a number of ways. If this progress seems insubstantial, it is because the rest of the world does not really understand the pace and the movement and the music of South Asia. Our quarrel, whether you call it an Indo-Pakistani dispute or a Hindu-Moslem one, is by far the oldest in the world. It goes back for centuries, and was further fanned by 150 years of British imperialism and its policy of divide and rule. Ancient feelings don't disappear all at once. But the Simla conference in June...