Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...United States, divided over the loss of American lives halfway around the world in a conflict that seemed to be no threat to American security. Finally, it looks as though this long and agonizing commitment is coming to an end and the peoples of Indochina--in Cambodia and Vietnam--will be able to achieve a long-sought self-determination...
American military aid has been largely responsible for stoking the fires of violence and death in Indochina: over $112 billion and 55,000 Americans were lost in Vietnam alone. And now, while President Ford continues to invoke the domino theory as justification for more money for more bloodshed in Vietnam and Cambodia, all indicators clearly show that Congress is prepared to make the final withdrawal of U.S. commitments in Indochina. In the past two weeks it has become apparent that Congress is going to reject Ford's proposal for military aid--$222 million to Cambodia and $300 million to Vietnam...
...When the Vietnam peace accord was signed over two years ago it was welcomed by the National Liberation Front not only as a harbinger of peace but as the chance for a people uprotted by war to return to their homes and to choose their own government. But the Provisional Revolutionary Government, the extension of the NLF, was denied access to the press and to free elections--both were provided for in the agreement. Land control in the PRG-controlled sectors moved ahead, there were no more privileged large landowners. But in areas controlled by the Thieu regime, there were...
...response to questions after his talk Harris made clear one of his first acts in office would be to look lot a new Secretary of State lambasting Henry A. Kissinger '50s policies in Cambodia, S. Vietnam the Middle East and Latin America...
...holding important positions of responsibility involving policy making and administration." Probably the worst thing about the report is the reason Bok cites for instituting this plan. On the most superficial level. Bok refers to the loss of public confidence in the government because of the "divisive" issues of Vietnam, the "spectacle" of Watergate, and the failures of major federal programs such as the "New Frontier" and the "Great Society" to deal with problems like urban decay and racial strife...