Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's first appointment to the new administration was fellow member Cyrus R. Vance to succeed Henry A. Kissinger '50 as Secretary of State. Vance was Deputy Secretary of Defense under Robert S. McNamara and defended the escalation of bombing in Vietnam. Vance, in turn, has appointed three other commission member as his chief deputies--Cooper, corporate lawyer Warren Christopher, and Lucy Wilson Benson, former president of the League of Women Voters and a director of the military-research-oriented Mitre Corporation, which does military research and development...
...failed to mention that his other two proposals also called for increased bombing of Indochina. The Pentagon Papers also reveal Brown did in fact advocate the first plan and that a year before this he had played the major role in dissuading McNamara from limiting the bombing of North Vietnam...
...National Security Adviser, Carter chose Brzezinski, a former State Department member who is vociferous in his defense of "limited wars" like the Vietnam...
...million to FNLA and UNITA, the "anti-communist" coalition in Angola. The announcement only made official what's been going on for over a year: the United States is interfering once again in a Third World country's struggle for self-determination, ignoring the lessons of Vietnam. In support of this aid, Kissinger and the State Department have waged a propaganda campaign in the press and in the U.N., justifying Western involvement in Angola as a necessary balance to Soviet aid to the MPLA...
...alleged threat of Soviet domination in Angola fails to justify the escalation of American aid to FNLA/UNITA. Furthermore, American involvement in Angola shows a disturbing disregard for the dangers of maintaining unpopular, counterrevolutionary regimes in Third World countries, dangers clearly illustrated in South Vietnam. FNLA/UNITA are little better than tribal factions, willing to surrender their country's wealth to foreign powers in order to further their limited interests. The MPLA, with its avowed goals of socialist development and democracy, represents the brightest hope for the Angolan people, and deserves the support of all who wish to see a free...