Word: rebuilds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...humble taxpayer, suggest that in light of what we have so far spent over there and the increasing cost of maintaining our Government and its bureaucrats we give Hanoi exactly as much aid as Russia and China will be giving the South Vietnamese to rebuild...
...reconstruction of all Indochina. Congress is already balking at the idea, so both President Nixon and Secretary of State Rogers have tried to sell the concept as an "investment in peace." Most Americans appear to be caught in the middle, somewhat baffled at the prospect of paying taxes to rebuild what they so recently paid taxes to destroy...
More specifically, Kissinger was expected to explore the principles governing whatever aid the U.S. will offer to help rebuild North Viet Nam. No dollar figures are likely to be discussed yet, but the North Vietnamese are known to want unrestricted aid from the U.S., while Washington will want the money designated for specific projects and preferably channeled through a multi-nation agency. Kissinger will have a bargaining point in the recent signs of i congressional resistance to any aid to Hanoi at all - a resistance that undoubtedly will grow if there is any major 1 Communist failure to carry...
...keeping the peace, since the agreement gives them a guaranteed place in the political life of South Viet Nam, which they believe will assure them of their ultimate goal. Besides the prospect of massive reconstruction aid from the U.S. for both Viet Nams-which Hanoi drastically needs to rebuild its industrial plant, destroyed by bombs-the North Vietnamese have an additional motive for making the truce work. They have traditionally played China off against Russia and vice versa; now they have a chance to add a third player to that game...
THINKING OF TET Barry Hillenbrand: As I went through the tiny village of Som Soui astride Highway 13, the people were returning to rebuild their houses. Government troops had blasted the village to drive out the Communists. On the road were the bodies of 14 dead Communists, one with a barbed-wire noose around his neck. The cease-fire has been unlucky for Som Soui. One villager told me that prior to the cease-fire talk in October the village had never been fired upon...