Word: viets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Convulsive postwar events like those in Greece, Turkey, Berlin, Lebanon and the Suez that confronted Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower led to swift responses that added up to a sense of American resolve. John Kennedy had some of that in his first year. Viet Nam was different, and the old strategy of trying to get in and out quickly failed...
...Viet Nam hangover
...mistake of military intervention in the internal affairs of an other country when our own vital interests were not involved." But then, in the most significant sentence of his speech, he added, "We must understand that not every instance of the firm application of power is a potential Viet Nam." He thus signaled, clearly enough, that the era of the Viet Nam complex in American foreign policy had come...
...invasion as a "liberation." Having overthrown the genocidal regime of Pol Pot and installed their own puppet government, headed by Heng Samrin, the Vietnamese might then have been expected to withdraw, if only to defend their own northern border against China. Instead, it has become increasingly clear that what Viet Nam actually has in mind is the colonization of the country the Cambodians now call Kampuchea...
Last week firsthand testimony about Viet Nam's determination to extend its authority over every corner of Cambodia emerged from three of the 120 Vietnamese army deserters who have turned up among the thousands of civilian refugees still streaming across the border into neighboring Thailand. Interviewed by TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Marsh Clark at a Thai military prison near the border town of Aranyaprathet, the deserters provided details about the continued warfare between Hanoi's army and the remnants of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge forces, and about what is fast becoming the complete "Vietnamization...