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...have to meet in order to get the aid. For example, they say, the government must offer amnesty to guerrillas who join in the voting and guarantee their safety. An unconditional increase in U.S. aid, the critics argue, would prolong the fighting and possibly trap the U.S. in a Viet Nam-style quagmire...
Church to state still do not belong together. The Rev. Billy Graham used to pray with Lyndon Johnson during the Viet Nam War, making L.B.J. proud. But when Graham questioned the war, Johnson felt betrayed. Graham was right back in the White House praying with Richard Nixon, only to be shaken himself when himself revealed Nixon covering up crimes. Jimmy Carter, himself an amateur evangelist, had his worst days when he put his faith (and our future) in his goodness instead of the Sixth Fleet. But even he never mixed God and Government as baldly as Reagan did in Orlando...
...SALT agreements of 1972 might well have achieved the objective of strategic stability. But both domestic and technical factors caused the accords to become increasingly controversial. The Viet Nam War and Watergate disintegrated the political consensus behind our defense and arms control policy just when technology was undermining its strategic premises. In the climate of collapsing confidence, groups usually associated with humane views came to advocate that the only way to keep our Government from using nuclear weapons was to deprive it of all alternatives to a strategy geared solely to the destruction of the Soviet population; never mind that...
Fairness compels me to point out that the decision to proceed with MIRVs was taken by President Johnson and was made irrevocable in the Nixon Administration. We proceeded because in the climate of the Viet Nam period we were reluctant to give up the one strategic offensive program that was funded with which to counter the rapid Soviet missile force buildup; because we doubted that the Soviets could achieve accuracies to threaten our missile force in the foreseeable future; and because the Soviets ignored our hints to open the subject of a MIRV ban in the SALT talks. Whatever...
...Mohammed: "The Soviet Union claims to champion the cause of the weak and the oppressed, but it had no hesitation about marching into Afghanistan to prop up an unpopular regime." Meanwhile, Cuba's Castro railed against "criminal Yankee imperialism" and new CIA plots to assassinate him, while Viet Nam's Premier Pham Van Dong attacked China for its collusion with the U.S. in a "policy of hostility" toward China's neighbors. China has never been a member of the nonaligned movement, and did not attend the meeting...