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Bring Viet Nam Closer As a Vietnamese of French nationality who has lived in France for 25 years, I think the best way to forget Viet Nam [April 23] and the pain of the war is, paradoxically, to normalize relations with Viet Nam, to help rebuild its too fragile economy. In your conscience you know that the misery is caused by your destruction of this poor, small country. The farther away you get from Viet Nam, the more it remains in your mind and heart as a kind of reproach and remorse...
...with scientists unhappy with the handling of the country's nuclear-power program, such as the Cambridge-based Union of Concerned Scientists. The movement affected a wide coalition of national organizations: environmentalists like the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth and Mobilization for Survival, antiwar groups like the War Resisters League, consumer groups like Ralph Nader's Public Interest Research Group, and economic activists like Tom Hayden's Campaign for Economic Democracy and William Winpisinger's Machinist's Union. Says Friends of the Earth mid-Atlantic Representative Lorna Salzman: "What we have here...
...foreign policy. Current U.S. foreign policy is tied implicitly or explicitly to the defense of many other nations--South Korea, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Australia, to name a few. Our military capabilities are global because our foreign policy commitments are global. This has been true since World War II when we became the leading nation of the West, and it continues to be true...
...otherwise objective presentation. It is often said about military analysis that how you count determines what you will find, and this is seen in the following quotation from Mr. Walker's article: "The current (military) budget is higher than any other period of U.S. history excepting World War II and Vietnam. It is higher now than during the Korean War and in the past fifty years of relative peace...
Furthermore, to compare current military expenditures to the period before World War II is not entirely honest. Before World War II, we were an isolationist country whose total ground forces numbered less than 300,000. We relied on Great Britain and France, the "Great Powers," to keep the military balance in Europe. Even BSG admits they cannot do this alone today. The military needs of such an isolationist foreign policy cannot be compared with the needs of a global power--even a limited one as BSG advocates. Mark F. Cancian...