Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Senator George McGovern (D.-S.D.) said yesterday in a press conference that he would recommend a complete "normalization" of relations with Vietnam to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...would advocate having full diplomatic, economic and cultural relations with Vietnam, as soon as possible," McGovern said. He admitted, however, that the "normalization" he envisioned probably would not come for "at least another year...
...first member of Congress to visit Vietnam since the U.S. withdrawal there last spring, McGovern said Saigon was "completely normal." He said he could find no evidence of a bloodbath...
...some of the things that didn't happen in 1975 were as important--and sometimes more important--than those that did. There was no bloodbath in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon. The world's economy did not collapse. The Arabs didn't buy Disneyland. New York City did not default--although no one is sure. Neither Kissinger nor Moynihan returned to Harvard and we didn't get the Kennedy Library...
...political systems is a central precondition for the shaping of a stable international order." Samuel P. Huntington, Thompson Professor of Government, who served as a Carter adviser and is playing a key role in the transition to power, wrote the section on the United States. During the Vietnam War, Huntington wrote a Foreign Policy article explaining that forced urbanization of that country by U.S. bombing would gradually bring the hostilities to an end, a policy subsequently adopted by the Defense Department...