Word: traded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GOALS that the U.S. has in the region are buried beneath the weight of the Carter administration's big-power calculus. The paramount U.S. interest in Indochina today is stability to preserve the non-socialist regimes that remain, and stability to insure the safety of Japanese and American trade throughout the region. But without normalization the United States forfeits its influence in the area. As a Congressional Research Service study noted, "Vietnam is essential to any regional arrangement for resolving conflicts and preserving peace in Southeast Asia...
...normalization should soon come. Fairy tales aside, the U.S. owes Vietnam much more than diplomatic relations. That should be the least it offers to a land it almost obliterated. And America, too, needs normalization beyond the practical, quantifiable gains of trade, new sources of oil, and regional stability. It is long past time that the U.S. learned to pursue its interests with legitimate methods. The U.S. should recognize Vietnam before thousands more "familiarize" themselves on some other continent in some other misbeggotten...
...photographers egg the Secretary and would be Senator on. Andrus and Tsongas sit on their heels and say hi to Melanie. The photographer motion Tsongas to squat more, to get in the picture. They trade autographs--Melanie draws a big heart and writes I LOVE Paul underneath it. Tsongas signs something for her. He looks at his autograph and asks her to write some more, to add the names "Ashley" and "Katina" after "Paul." His aides motion him that it is time to move on but. Tsongas is patient...
Commerce for Industry and Trade...
...your article on the U.S. trade mission to Japan, there was a very clear error. The trip was not "paid for entirely by Washington." The American businessmen paid all of their travel expenses, plus a $1,000 to $1,800 fee to the Department of Commerce to help defray the costs of the mission...