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...withdrawal requiring a minimum of cooperation from the Communists. If the war was still raging on Inauguration Day, McGovern would stop the bombing and other "acts of force," halt the flow of supplies to Saigon and begin a 90-day withdrawal of U.S. forces-keeping U.S. airbases in Thailand open and Seventh Fleet ships on station until Hanoi released the 539 American P.O.W.s and helped to account for the 1,143 servicemen listed as missing in action. McGovern would join in a postwar reconstruction effort (as Nixon has also proposed to do), but he would take no part in organizing...
...airbases in Thailand would be closed and the U.S. fleet would be transferred away from the South China...
McGovern has presented several policy statements. The Wall Street tax reform message presented only a few specifics. His decisive stance on Vietnam disguises the absence of a comprehensive view of world politics. To pull out of Vietnam in 90 days may be specific, but Thailand's fate remains ambiguous...
...bombers come mostly from Utapao Air Base in Thailand, which last week opened its gates for a conducted tour by newsmen for the first time since it was built in the mid-1960s. Correspondent Cloud, who accompanied the tour, reported that "there is no hint of war here. The 8,000 airmen work an eight-hour day and then are free to loll at poolside or watch a movie. For the most part, they appear uniformly clean-cut and middleclass. 'It seemed a good place to learn my job and advance my career,' said Captain Claude Hamilton...
...been a dramatic step-up in the bombing of the South. In the single month of July, American B-52 bombers flew 900 missions over South Viet Nam-111 missions more than were flown in all of 1971. For the first time the big B-52s flying out of Thailand's Utapao Air Base are striking the heavily populated Mekong Delta. With ARVN forces deployed elsewhere to counter the North Vietnamese offensive and unable to cope with the growing enemy threat in the Delta, the U.S. has apparently decided on a policy of massive and calculatedly destructive airpower...