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...They know that we have enough to kill and be killed a hundred times over again. Their historic experience in this century?unlike America's until Viet Nam???has not been the triumphant use of power but the experience of brute and futile power, blindly spent and blindly worshiped." Even in France, where pacifist sentiment is far less widespread than in other European countries, 63% of those polled consider a war in Europe "imaginable," and 30% thought it could occur in the next five years. hese fears have emerged at a particularly crucial moment. For the first time in NATO...
...from Moscow, Spanish Communist Party Boss Santiago Carrillo compared China's aggression against Viet Nam to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Throughout Latin America, leftist groups raised an anti-Chinese chorus. Thousands of students marched down Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma with banners that said VIVA VIET NAM???VANGUARD OF THE WORLD REVOLUTION...
...chaos and dislocations of a military siege. Some pessimists believe that the North is bent on a dramatic battle for Saigon. But reducing the city to rubble would increase the likelihood of bitter-end opposition to Communist control by the many well-organized political groups within South Viet Nam???groups like the Buddhists of the militant An Quang Pagoda faction, the Hoa Hao and Cao Dai religious sects, and powerful Catholics like Father Tranh Huu Thanh, who organized effective protests against the Thieu government, not to mention the many thousands of police, militiamen and regular soldiers...
Enough Spent. Ford did ask for $250 million in emergency humanitarian and economic aid to relieve the suffering in South Viet Nam???a request that the Congress will readily grant. Congress is also likely to grant Ford the explicit authorization he requested to use troops, if necessary, to aid in an evacuation from South Viet...
...Watergate speech was disconcertingly ambivalent. Nixon resorted to an odd and habitual rhetorical device, explaining?as he often has done in his past speeches on Viet Nam???that he was rejecting "the easiest course" and pursuing the more difficult one. In this case, "the easiest course would be for me to blame those to whom I delegated the responsibility to run the campaign." Placing the entire blame on subordinates, however, would not have been the easier course?because it would not have washed. To avoid accepting responsibility for the actions of so many men acting in his name would have...