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...been "flagrantly violated" by Hanoi (but neglected to mention that they had been flouted by Saigon). Hanoi had been emboldened to do so, Ford suggested, because military aid to Saigon had been cut back by Congress; Ford also pointed out that the President's capacity even to threaten retaliatory military moves had been curtailed by a congressional ban in July 1973 against money for any further U.S. military intervention in Southeast Asia and by the War Powers Resolution passed over a Nixon veto in November 1973. The eventual result, according to Ford, was that 18 North Vietnamese divisions had been...
Both Presidents [Nixon and Thieu] viewed with great concern infiltrations of men and weapons in sizable numbers from North Viet Nam and . . . considered that actions which would threaten [the peace agreement] would call for appropriately vigorous reactions . . . (President Nixon affirmed that the U.S. for its part expected to continue, in accordance with its constitutional processes, to supply the Republic of Viet Nam with the material means for its defense consistent with the Agreement on Ending...
...after the 9 p.m. curfew, the only sound is the chatter of small-arms fire punctuated by the thump of rockets and howitzer shells. By day, the city is ever more pathetic and dangerous. There are serious food shortages. Men dressed in army uniforms use M-79s to threaten shopkeepers, then take whatever they wish. Children who sell gasoline by the pint fight among themselves to pour their wine bottle's worth into the tank of a car for a few hundred riels, about 300. The homeless, the maimed, the wretched, the exhausted squat on the streets, huddle under...
...recovery from the recession proceeds gradually, with little renewed inflationary pressure, and the deficit is held within manageable limits, bond interest rates should rise slowly to levels only slightly higher than now and new issues should be readily marketable. In any case, the recent tempest does not yet seriously threaten industry's ability to raise the funds it needs for expansion, modernization and paying off of short-term debt...
Speaking at the Law School Forum, Allende gave a detailed description of CIA involvement in the 1973 coup to an audience of over 900 people, and said that CIA activities "stimulate fascist governments which threaten democracy and consequently world peace...