Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...VICTORY of the Vietnamese National Liberation Front is a victory, first of all, for the people of Vietnam. Americans, who played a crucial role in forcing their government to withdraw from Indochina, should rejoice in the Vietnamese triumph. And it may even turn out--if Americans are watchful--that President Ford was right, that the evacuation of Americans from Saigon closed "a chapter in the American experience." But for all its profound repercussions for the rest of the world, Tuesday's triumph belongs to the Vietnamese, first and foremost. To focus on the repercussions would be perverse...
...said he can not predict what will happen next in Vietnam, but added that at least the surrender will "end the possibility of direct fighting...
Fairbank said that the communists will eventually dominate the new government and that the end of the war is a "positive force for the people of Vietnam...
Hoffmann said he sees "no intelligent opinions being offered" to the kind of policy that brought about Vietnam. "I am very sad and no reassured at all about the course of American foreign policy in the future," he said...
Daniel P. Moynihan, professor of Government and former member of the Nixon Administration said. "It would be hard to say something intelligent about the situation in Vietnam since I've never been there...