Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might speculate that after ten years and $23 million in legal fees, in a case that has established environmental law precedents one after another, Con Ed finds itself in the uncomfortable position of fighting an environmental Vietnam--there is no peace with honor, no way out but to pull out, and that would be too embarrassing for a shaky corporate image to endure. No one has asked, but undoubtedly the utility would deny...
Good old Henry. Just one of the boys. He can laugh and smile. Could he really be the man who brought you Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and the Christmas bombings, the main architect of the foreign policy that brought senseless suffering to so many...
Kissinger would have the public believe otherwise. He has tried to give the impression that he did not condone Nixon's decision to carpet-bomb North Vietnam in December 1972. Several reporters have documented evidence to the contrary, and if Kissinger had felt strongly about the move, he could have resigned. But he stayed on, and one month later, the North Vietnamese and the United States signed a "peace" pact not substantially different from an agreement presented prior to the Christmas bombing--a high price for a few additional commas and some misplaced modifiers...
PERHAPS THE REPORTERS feel that this is all past history, that the new secretary of state deserves a second chance. But tough questions, unasked by most reporters, remain. Why does the United States continue sending aid to South Vietnam, enabling a corrupt and undemocratic government to continue fighting? What gives the Nixon administration a right to use $266 million found in "a clerical error" to wage an allegedly ended war, when it has impounded unspent money appropriated by Congress for poverty and education programs...
...Vietnam meant nothing to Case and his fellow senators, what about the press? Which is more important--embarrassment or the truth? To a free and open society, the truth is never embarrassing. And the truth of the matter is this: by hiding behind "delicate negotiations," Kissinger has fooled the American public, the American press and the American legislators. He has become known as a saint as well as a warmonger. But he has not fooled the Vietnamese; in Southeast Asia, the war continues...