Word: reconstructionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The President has not yet announced any details ot his plan-last year he talked of a $7.5 billion program for all of Indochina over a five-year period, but the Administration is now deliberately vague about who would get what, whether it would be direct bilateral aid or part...
AFTER ANOTHER MONTH of "reconciliation" like this first month since the treaty was signed in Paris, the Vietnamese might well be in need of an armistice to end the "peace." Canadian truce supervisors complain that the fighting in South Vietnam is still too intense to permit careful "truce" supervision. Fighting...
It was obvious that many difficulties remained in securing an effective end to the fighting in Indochina before any reconstruction efforts could begin. Even then, there remained some serious doubts as to whether Congress will authorize the spending of billions in Southeast Asia at a time when domestic programs are...
Yet 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...
The conflicting claims of the combatants have long hampered efforts to get reliable estimates of war damage. But as the push toward reconstruction begins, this matter is receiving urgent attention from a special State Department task force headed by Assistant Secretary Marshall Green (slated soon to become Ambassador to Australia...