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...world," said Mike Mansfield in typical understatement. Democratic Senator John L. McClellan, a longtime Viet Nam hawk whose Appropriations Committee would have to approve the military aid request, expressed a prevailing congressional view: "I think it's too late to do any good. Further military aid could merely prolong the conflict and perhaps postpone briefly the inevitable ?a Communist victory, a complete takeover...
...dust. An inferno of small children runs everywhere. The literate adults--estimated at between 50 and 60 per cent of the population--cannot read at night because there is no electricity. They cannot bathe; there is neither running water not toilets. So they perhaps light a candle to prolong the day, and the conversations, before going...
...more frightening than all that was Ford's requests for 40,000 American troops in South Vietnam, and for revisions in the 1973 War Powers Act to allow him to conduct the war as he sees fit. American military involvement in Vietnam will only prolong the suffering there and help the wrong side of the war--and with Ford having the power to escalate the war himself, America's involvement could become as pervasive and cruel as it was before...
Millions of orphans and refugees and war victims of all kinds are crying out for peace and relief. We must answer their cries for help-not with weapons to prolong a nightmare of war, but with tools to build a structure for peace...
...McClellan (D-Ark.), Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, would further military assistance would only prolong human suffering in Indochina...