Word: rebuilder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Does the U.S. Government think American families are made of money? For the past ten years, my parents have paid their taxes to destroy North Viet Nam, and I oppose paying mine to rebuild...
Harrington said it would be worthwhile, however, "to insure a tenuous peace in Vietnam by giving financial help to the two countries to rebuild...
...most recent concern has been raising money to help rebuild the Bach Mai Hospital in North Vietnam, which was destroyed by U.S. bombs last December...
...despite such opposition, the moral obligation of the U.S. seems clear. Much of the destruction and refugee dislocation was caused by U.S. bombs -and the cease-fire agreement commits the U.S. to pay. Besides, the precedent of American postwar compassion is plain: A nation willing to help rebuild Germany after Hitler would seem unlikely in the long run to refuse aid to North Viet Nam. There are also strong practical arguments for aid, since it would maintain some U.S. influence, as against that of Russia and China, and could turn the rival forces to peaceful pursuits in accordance with...
...none other than Charles de Gaulle. If last week's newspaper polls prove right, he could well become France's Premier in 1973. This feat, if Mitterrand brings it off, will bear witness to his tenacity, shrewdness and gift for political compromise. Mitterrand has had to painstakingly rebuild the flagging Socialist Party, which has long been threatened by minute doctrinal squabbles as well as by Gaullist and Communist inroads upon its petit bourgeois constituency. Most French socialist leaders have traditionally refused to collaborate with the Communists on ideological grounds. Mitterrand's tactic, since he took over...