Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ALTHOUGH the U.S. has finally made diplomatic overtures to Vietnam, the government has consistently refused to acknowledge its moral obligation to give the reparation aid Viztnam needs so badly for the reconstruction of a society destroyed by more than 15 years of struggle against one of the most industrially advanced nations of the world...
Private American organizations have been permitted to send $4 million in humanitarian aid, and the U.S.-supported International Band for Reconstruction and Development has lent Vietnam $44 million, but the U.S. government continues to ignore its obligation to send direct reconstruction aid to Vietnam...
...House of Representatives has reaffirmed its opposition to aid for Vietnam, apparently ignoring the fact that former President Richard M. Nixon secretly promised Vietnam $3.25 billion in reconstruction aid during the 1973 Paris negotiations. Congress may justifiably consider itself under no obligation to fulfill Nixon's secret promises; but that does not eliminate America's moral obligation to aid the people of Vietnam. President Carter and Congress should renounce the position reaffirmed recently--as the U.S. renounced its opposition to Vietnam's U.N. application--and send the reconstruction aid Vietnam so badly needs, and America so clearly owes...
...JANUARY 21, the day following his inauguration, President Jimmy Carter fulfilled one of his major campaign promises by issuing a blanket pardon to all those who had peacefully refused to register for the draft or be inducted into the armed services during the Vietnam War. By granting the pardon, Carter hoped to bring America's tragic Vietnam experience to an end. Unfortunately, the pardon, while a step in the right direction, does not go nearly far enough...
...Moreover, while the majority of those eligible for pardons are middle-class whites, a disproportionately large number of deserters are members of disadvantaged minority groups. Many of these people simply lacked the information or financial means to evade the draft. Any government action to heal the scars caused by Vietnam surely must include these men. It should also cover those who participated in non-violent acts such as the destruction of selective service files in an attempt to stop American involvement...