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...freedom-loving people around the world must say, 'I am a Berliner. I am a Jew in a world still threatened by anti- Semitism. I am an Afghan and I am a prisoner of the gulag. I am a refugee in a crowded boat foundering off the coast of Viet Nam. I am a Laotian, a Cambodian, a Cuban and a Miskito Indian in Nicaragua. I too am a potential victim of totalitarianism...
Anyone who switched on television last week could not dodge the images, old and new, of Viet Nam: U.S. helicopters retreating from Saigon ten years ago, gaily garbed celebrators parading through the streets of that city, now named after Ho Chi Minh, on the tenth anniversary of the Communist victory. The screen poured forth pictures of life in Viet Nam today: peasants toiling in paddies, cyclists pedaling along busy avenues, children smiling into the camera lens. Yet those scenes did not tell the full story; network correspondents were not allowed free access to "re-education camps," where thousands of Vietnamese...
...flare-up was in response to a monologue by Le Duc Tho, 73, who sat opposite Kissinger during the Paris peace talks in the early 1970s and still serves in Viet Nam's Politburo. Smiling like a kindly uncle but persistently ducking the questions of Nightline's Ted Koppel, Tho thanked "the American people for their support and contribution to our present victory." That smug expression of gratitude, delivered about a war that holds such painful memories for Americans, further galled Kissinger. On ABC's Good Morning America next day, he reiterated his complaint about television's handling...
...Secretary of State George Shultz. At a ceremony marking the tenth anniversary of the fall of Saigon, Shultz said the contra cutoff had dire implications: "Broken promises. Communist dictatorship. Refugees. Widened Soviet influence, this time near our very border." Then he added angrily: "Here is your parallel between Viet Nam and Central America...
...arrived on the Hill in 1954. In his first major Senate speech, he castigated the maverick Wisconsin Republican, Joseph McCarthy. Although his civil libertarianism and antipathy to Richard Nixon would again endear him to liberals in the 1970s, Ervin was profoundly conservative. He was a diehard supporter of the Viet Nam War, anti- ERA and an unswerving opponent of civil rights laws. According to Ervin's strictly states-rights' reading of the Constitution, the document ought to forbid federal civil rights intervention, as well as the no-knock search warrants and sweeping Executive privilege sought by Nixon...