Notes in the News
Notes in the News The System Can Work A man we know who played a small but energetic part in the campaign against the supersonic transport plane pretended to be disappointed when the results of...
...The Soviet leadership's foreign policy report to the recent Communist Party Congress, like President Nixon's earlier message to Congress on "the State of the World," betrayed no sense of urgency whatever about reaching agreement at Vienna...
...The Federal funds that have been spared are an insignificant fraction of those we continue to squander on arms and other idiocies...
...The environmental devastation is likely to linger for generations...
...It used to be called "bombing the hell out of them," but "interdiction" is an antiseptic, bloodless Word...
...There are thousands of Vietnam veterans who can expose the rest of the iceberg by relating their own combat experiences before the Congress of the United States...
...But it is doubtful that more than one out of four citizens feels any deep sense of shame over the unbearable agony which we, the people of the United States, have visited upon the people of Indochina...
...I recognize," he told the Senate, "that we must all be very careful here...
...We hope, too, that members of Congress will learn a lesson from this sorry episode: repressive legislation, once enacted, achieves a durability that defies all justice, decency, and common sense...
...Bella Abzug of New York, and Jim Abourezk of South Dakota, have called on the House Foreign Affairs Committee to look into the relationship of oil to the war...
...There were 50,000 civilian casualties in Laos even before the recent invasion...
...Secretary of State William P. Rogers has denied that the prospects of huge oil deposits off the coast of Vietnam have had any effect on U.S...
...In America...
...Former Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg has stated that it contains "hardly a sentence . . , which can pass constitutional muster...
...We already have a "sufficiency" doubled in spades...
...It is impossible, however, to disregard the genuine anguish of the Americans who sent in dollars to "ransom" Cailey, who resigned from Selective Service boards, who wrote, by the millions, to protest the verdict...
...Pentagonese For the sake of clarity, we undertake to explain the real meaning of some of the military terms used by the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, the White House, and various U.S...
...If the opportunity presented by the SALT negotiations is not to be irretrievably lost, new pressures must be brought to bear on the Administration to pursue the Vienna talks in good faith...
...A nine-year-old boy in Maine puts in eleven hours of exhausting stoop labor to harvest fifteen barrels of potatoes...
...tens of thousands of civilian casualties and nearly one million refugees in Laos...
...Can we ever wash away the ugly racial connotation of this war...
...The laws against child labor are flagrantly violated, not only in agriculture but in other industries...
...ratification of the protocol was being shelved in the Senate even as the breakthrough was being announced in Geneva...
...The documents pilfered from the FBI and disseminated to the news media disclosed how broad a hunting license the Government has arrogated to itself in the surveillance of real or imagined dissidents...
...General Assembly—the others were Portugal and Australia—to insist that the protocol did not apply to herbicides...
...policy in Southeast Asia—or if they affect American policy there at all...
...Or, employed by our side, to sanitize the total destruction of Dresden from the air...
...The children are waiting for their answer...
...The chief stumbling block to ratification is the Nixon Administration's insistence on a "reservation" to the protocol that specifically exempts the use of tear gases and herbicides—both of which have been used extensively and with devastating effect in Vietnam...
...The reports from Vienna—and the official utterances in Washington and Moscow—give no indication that any meaningful progress is being made toward the vital goal of curbing the mad momentum of the nuclear arms race...
...It should be noted that no claim had been made that oil had already been found off the coast...
...This, it seems to us, is incontrovertibly clear under international law and under the precedents set by the United States in the Tokyo and Nuremberg trials after World War II...
...We hope he is right, for the Act is a stain on America that should be removed forthwith...
...Nixon's more recent rhetoric...
...Forbes, a leading business magazine, asked whether a discovery of Vietnam oil might not "lead to pressure for slowing down the pace of U.S...
...We have described the unsanitary conditions of both fields and housing quarters...
...In 1925, the United States sponsored the protocol at Geneva...
...And yet— And yet there are thousands of Americans in Vietnam, and many thousands more at home who formerly served there, who know that what the court called Calley's "crime" was no different, except perhaps in a quantitative sense, from what they performed as their "duty...
...A team in Putnam county, Ohio, in a period of a week before most migrant workers arrived, observed twenty children between the ages of three and fifteen in the fields...
...Their efforts deserve encouragement, but we must recognize that they will have only peripheral value so long as Americans remain complacent about the dangers of dossier despotism...
...Senator Ervin is a conscientious civil libertarian—perhaps the most conscientious in the Senate—and his Judiciary subcommittee made an earnest effort to get at the facts of Federal snooping...
...Southeast Asia's Oil Some petroleum industry sources contend that the offshore oil resources of Southeast Asia could make it one of the richest oil regions in the world...
...CBW: Mixed Bag There was encouraging news from Geneva last month, and discouraging news from Washington, on the prospects for barring the barbarous use of chemical and bacteriological warfare agents (CBW...
...If he is guilty, they say, so are we...
...I will not now or ever again vote to start or continue an undeclared war," he said...
...The Subcommittee chairman, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, said recently that neither President Nixon nor other U.S...
...Much credit is due, also, to the conservation organizations which mounted a tireless and effective counter-campaign...
...If the concept ever had any meaning, it has been stripped of it by Mr...
...The tragedy which might result from failure to repeal this legislation is that in order to establish the Act's invalidity, large numbers of Americans could be incarcerated for months and even One Simple Fact For millions of Americans, the Calley verdict has raised terrible questions about the responsibility for things that have happened in Indochina in the last six years...
...Abourezk, a freshman Congressman, said the most important question to be answered through the investigation "is whether possible lease agreements between American oil companies and the Thieu-Ky government will tie us into continued support of that specific government...
...He said there may be oil off the Vietnamese coast but none has been found and no concessions have been granted by Vietnam to U.S...
...In Oregon's Willamette Valley, among farm labor groups studied were "white day-haulers or local people who commute to the fields...
...Can America ever wash its hands of the innocent Asian blood it has spilled...
...If American oil is to invest billions on the basis of leases which are valid only so long as the Thieu regime stands, does this mean that our policy in Vietnam will change from self-determination to blind support for Thieu and his generals...
...He called on the two superpowers to negotiate a total ban or at least a low limit on antiballistic missiles as a first step toward limiting offensive missiles...
...With Bloody Hands The genocide which the U.S...
...Snooping Out the Snoopers The hearings recently conducted by Senator Sam J. Ervin, North Carolina Democrat, into the Army's domestic intelligence activities and other forms of Federal surveillance provided a depressing demonstration of how difficult it is, even in a relatively open society, to impose restraints on a government contemptuous of the rights of its citizens...
...When people fear surveillance, whether it exists or not, when they grow afraid to speak their minds and hearts freely to their government or to anyone else, then we shall cease to be a free society," Senator Ervin says...
...It is an action long overdue, and one that as a nation we come to with bloody hands...
...The indication, when it came a month ago, was all the more encouraging in view of the formidable pressures exerted in behalf of the SST by the Nixon Administration, the airlines and aerospace manufacturers, and the organized labor movement...
...forces from Vietnam...
...The children worked an eight-hour day with a half-hour lunch...
...He, alone, must make the final decision on our negotiation posture" at SALT...
...Even when SST interests were investing vast sums in a public relations and advertising campaign, the mail to Congress ran overwhelmingly against continuing the Federal subsidy...
...It is wrong to compound a six-year mistake and send young men halfway around the world to fight in a war we have not the fortitude to win Ending the Pork Barrel A primary benefit of sound and successful conversion planning . . . will be to free national decision-makers from the pressures of military pork barrel...
...It is equally clear, however, that none of these is about to be brought to trial for his crimes...
...Indeed, the Administration witnesses—especially those from the Department of Justice—who appeared before the Ervin subcommittee took the view that the Government's domestic espionage was none of the people's business...
...it is not only tolerated, it is encouraged...
...e.g., the South Vietnamese outcursion from Laos...
...The Citizens Commission of Inquiry on U.S...
...They marked, as Senator Gaylord Nelson, Wisconsin Democrat, suggested, "the first major crunch in the battle to come between those who believe that quality in American life is more important than development for the sake of development, or exploitation for the sake of exploitation...
...Such pressures, we believe, can best be marshalled in the U.S...
...Last month's Soviet initiative at Geneva, which brought the Russian position into line with a British draft treaty proposed last year, held out the prospect of swift progress on the adoption of a CBW weapons treaty...
...It seems clear, in any event, that so long as the Administration insists on its perverse position, no two-thirds vote for the Geneva protocol can be mustered in the Senate...
...So long as it accepts that view, the Senate will abdicate its responsibility to help bring the arms race to a halt...
...The figure turned out to be wildly inaccurate, and The Progressive, for one, wants to acknowledge its mistake...
...SALT Needs the Senate The American and Soviet delegations to the strategic arms limitation talks (SALT) have now met in some five dozen sessions...
...If the SALT talks collapse, or if they merely drone on indefinitely without result, each side stands ready to blame the other for the failure...
...My people used to say, 'Win the war.' Then they said, 'Win it or get out.' Now with one voice they say, 'Get out.' " It is noteworthy that Representative Flynt put this repentant mood on public display as he was explaining his vote against extending the draft—his first anti-military vote in eighteen years in the House...
...For a variety of reasons—some economic, some moral—three out of four Americans now favor the speedy withdrawal of U.S...
...troop withdrawal" and whether "oil industry agreements with the present Thieu-Ky regime" might not "commit the United States even closer to this controversial government...
...Tear gas has been employed in Vietnam to flush enemy troops out of hiding so that they could be mowed down by conventional weapons...
...Ironically, U.S...
...The President, as Commander in Chief, is primarily responsible for our security...
...Two decades of Cold War hysteria and the ever greater incursions of private as well as governmental snooping have done heavy damage to those wholesome attitudes...
...We hope there is still reason for his use of the future tense...
...He is no Dreyfus fallen victim to an ugly official conspiracy...
...But the Americans who reacted so strongly to the Calley verdict are saying something else...
...And agriculture, as the AFSC report points out, "is the third most hazardous industry in America...
...In an interdiction the bomber crews cannot hear the screaming of the peasants and other civilians being interdicted...
...What that seems to mean is that Mr...
...An incursion may be followed by an outcursion, vulgarly known as a retreat...
...Amid the swirl of claims and denials there appears to be general agreement that there could be major oil resources in Southeast Asia and that major U.S...
...The House and Senate votes on the SST were welcome affirmations of making life rather than breaking it...
...The ecological damage that has been averted is minor compared to the persisting pollution and destruction of our environment...
...Even more revealing were the clues provided by the stolen FBI papers to the purposes for which such surveillance is maintained...
...Thee and We The behavioral scientists will be kept busy for years analyzing the complexities of the public response to the verdict and sentence dispensed by a military court in the case of Lieutenant William L. Cailey, Jr...
...spy planes invading North Vietnamese air space...
...he asked...
...In fact, it is soundless too—from the air...
...A full-scale Congressional inquiry into the whole matter would help to disclose the truth— whatever it is...
...The only rights that survive are those which people care about and exercise...
...ratification of the 1925 Geneva protocol banning chemical and biological warfare...
...An initiative on the Senate's part can bring about the initiative in Vienna for which the whole world yearns...
...War Crimes in Vietnam, a group composed largely of veterans, has the names—and the testimony—of hundreds who witnessed and took part in crimes as monstrous as Lieutenant Calley's...
...He is still trapped, as he was in 1968, by his extraordinary diffidence toward the White House...
...The average hourly wage rate for children was $1.12, and for those on piece-rate, $1.04...
...agriculture children barely past the toddling stage put in long hours of hard work in the fields...
...tens of thousands of civilian casualties and more than one and a half million refugees in Cambodia...
...The Child Exploiters In some areas of U.S...
...One can dismiss the politicians who scrambled aboard the bandwagon—the Lester Maddoxes, the George Wallaces, even the Richard Nixons—to put their "patriotism" on display...
...It is right and inevitable that we examine that record of the past...
...In 1969, the Senate voted to repeal the Emergency Detention Act, but the effort died in the House—primarily because of the opposition of Representative Richard H. Ichord, the Missouri Democrat who heads the House Internal Security Committee (formerly HUAC...
...Our air space is our air space, and their air space is our air space, and any gooks who think otherwise are going to be bombed back into the Stone Age by B-52s...
...The deployment of multiple warheads (MIRV) by the United States, which is now under way, will increase the American lead...
...He stands convicted by his own testimony of butchering helpless civilians at the village of My Lai, and he told his judges that "it was no big deal...
...He contended that articles charging such a link "are inaccurate and misleading...
...The 13,000 workers whose jobs were jeopardized by the grounding of the SST are only a tiny portion of those whose livelihood depends on the production of trouble, trash, and trivia...
...The United States is the only major power not bound by the protocol...
...headquarters in South Vietnam: Incursion, n. In earlier wars, this would have been termed an invasion...
...Chairman J. W. Fulbright of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee asked the State Department for information on the oil situation with regard to Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos...
...All of us have seen or participated in incidents that would have qualified as war crimes under international law," says former Lieutenant Michael Uhl, who can speak from personal experience of the torture of Vietcong prisoners...
...But he recently challenged allegations that oil interests are behind continued American involvement in Vietnam...
...How am I going to explain this to my kids...
...The most revealing insight into the reliability of that "self-discipline" came not from the Ervin hearings but from the raid on an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, conducted by a clandestine group calling itself the Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI...
...Three Democratic Representatives, William Anderson of Tennessee, Mrs...
...It seems, in fact, that many Americans are more aroused about the violation of the sanctity of the FBI's files than about the violation of their privacy and their political rights...
...The challenge now is to make it work—not once in a rare while but all the time, consistently, for all of us...
...Interdiction, n. Gutting the supply or troop routes of the adversary...
...The project was conducted in cooperation with the National Committee on Education of Migrant Children...
...How many will die in future similar adventures...
...Pending in the House this year are a dozen repeal bills sponsored by more than 150 members...
...Protective-reaction-air-strike, n. If the Luftwaffe had thought of it, the term would have been employed by them as a four-part noun to depict the bombing of Rotterdam as a defensive measure taken against the Dutch warmongers...
...Lieutenant Cailey is an unlikely hero...
...The claim is absurd...
...This was the greatest achievement of the SST opponents, the demonstration—at a time when it was sorely needed—that the system can be made to work...
...The most serious error in accounts carried by the daily press and magazines, including The Progressive, was the reprinting of an erroneous figure from the trade journal, World Oil, which predicted that by 1975 Southeast Asia could yield "a daily average crude production of 400 million barrels...
...And last December the Saigon government passed a law regulating any future oil exploration off South Vietnam's coast and providing for a large share of the profits to go to Saigon...
...Much credit for the victory must go to the members of Congress who resisted these pressures—who spurned promises from the White House and ignored threats from important campaign contributors—to cast their votes in the public interest...
...Of 229 children working in California agriculture who were included in the study, seventeen per cent worked more than eight hours a day...
...What the SST debate really came down to," The Washington Post observed, "was the question of how we can effect democratic influence over the forces that make or break the quality of life in this country and on this planet...
...Within a relatively short time the United States will probably join in a United Nations ban on genocide...
...As chairman of the Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee, Senator Philip A. Hart, Michigan Democrat, has conducted hearings that have produced sharp criticism of the U.S...
...The Act, which was passed over President Truman's veto, has long been recognized as an affront to the Bill of Rights...
...The Administration's position, as recently enunciated before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is that these are "humane" weapons which "cause less suffering...
...But it is more urgent that we face one simple fact about the present: In this year, 1971, more civilians are being killed and wounded in the three countries of Indochina, and more made refugees, than at any time in history...
...The SST vote demonstrated that the system can be made to work...
...The bad news from Washington was a further postponement—perhaps into the indefinite future—of U.S...
...What we find most disturbing in all this is the relative equanimity of much of the public—and the news media— to the disclosures stemming from the Ervin hearings and the FBI documents...
...Nixon will define "sufficiency" as he sees fit...
...A helpful start in this direction was Senator Hubert H. Humphrey's recent speech on arms limitation—his first major Senate address since his return to Washington...
...According to Defense Secretary Mel-vin R. Laird's own calculations, as reported in his latest "posture statement" to Congress, the United States began this year with a total of 4,000 deliverable hydrogen bombs, as against the Soviet Union's 1,800...
...We have come a long and sorry way...
...The omission, the Russian delegate explained, was because such use is already banned by the 1925 Geneva protocol...
...The Senate Subcommittee on Refugees estimates that there have been one million civilian casualties and five million refugees in South Vietnam...
...The absence of such planning to date, on the other hand, is a central reason why many observers in both Government and private industry are predicting that there will be no "peace dividend" when the Vietnam war ends...
...Get Qutl' Second thoughts on the Vietnam war in particular and the militarization of American foreign policy in general are multiplying steadily, even among the most hawkish Congressmen...
...In 1969, it was one of only three nations in the U.N...
...As a result, enemy invasions of Cambodia and Laos are now running eleven minutes behind schedule...
...Tomorrow the class will consider and discuss the definition of enemy supply dump, the military objective of an incursion...
...It should be held, most of all, to help hasten the day when America withdraws its last soldier, its last bomber, its last vestige of "military aid" from Southeast Asia...
...Government has been practicing in Indochina these past years is only now beginning to turn the stomachs of a sizable proportion of Americans...
...My Lai, they say, "is only the tip of the iceberg...
...In three counties in western Washington—Skagit, Whatcom, and Yakima—local sources told the investigators that virtually all migrant children over the age of six worked in the fields...
...Part of this vast expenditure has begun...
...Effective enforcement of these laws requires the hiring of more state and Federal inspectors—and that means higher taxes and less concern for the child exploiters...
...In his "State of the World" message the President observed that sufficiency is "in part a political concept, and it involves judgments whether the existing and foreseeable military environment endangers our legitimate interests and aspirations...
...One of the reversals that caught our attention during the past month was that of Representative John J. Flynt, Jr., Georgia Democrat, long one of the most relentless hawks in the House...
...Notes in the News The System Can Work A man we know who played a small but energetic part in the campaign against the supersonic transport plane pretended to be disappointed when the results of the final Senate vote were announced...
...Lieutenant Uhl is one of the former soldiers in the Citizens Commission who have petitioned Congress for a full investigation of war crimes in Vietnam...
...nineteen per cent were under twelve years of age, although it is illegal to employ minors in that age bracket...
...But the most important role was played by the people—the people who rejected the Administration's argument that the SST was indispensable to American "greatness," who refused to dismiss, as the Government dismissed, the warnings of potential environmental hazards, who insisted that there must be more important purposes on which to spend the nation's resources...
...In Aroostook county, Maine, reported the AFSC study—Child Labor in Agriculture, Summer 1970—thirty-five per cent of the potato acreage is hand-harvested by crews composed largely of children...
...There was a time in America when paid informers and career stool pigeons were objects of contempt—when citizens cherished their right to say "none of your business" to the state...
...He was rewarded with a generalized and unsatisfactory answer...
...There was a time, early in his Administration, when Mr...
...But the value of Humphrey's proposals was undermined by the feebleness of his presentation...
...Unless alternatives for war industry are found, we may find ourselves one or two years from now casting routine votes for more outlandish military devices than anything we can even conceive today, done with the usual proclamations about "national security," but with an even keener sense of the potential for economic collapse among our constituencies...
...The report concludes: "We have described the stooping and crawling in intense heat for eight to ten hours a day...
...What is needed is not, as Senator Humphrey proposed, another gently worded sense-of-the-Senate resolution to be ignored by the Administration, but a firm refusal to authorize or appropriate further funds for doomsday weapons...
...Each side pays courteous lip service to the principle of arms limitation, while each continues to place full reliance on the amassing of overkill weapons as the foundation of "security...
...More than a year ago, David Rockefeller, president of the Chase Manhattan Bank, said that international oil companies, most of them American, planned to spend $35 billion over the next twelve years in Southeast Asia on exploration and drilling, refineries, pipelines, and tankers...
...It is possible to discount some of this reaction...
...The Durable Witchhunt Of all the stupid and malicious measures enacted by Congress in the bleak witchhunt era two decades ago, none was more obnoxious than the Emergency Detention Act of 1950, which authorized the President, in an "internal security emergency," to round up suspected subversives and intern them without the benefit of due process of law...
...It was estimated that at least ninety per cent of local children between twelve and fifteen did the same...
...We have cited cases where children are in fact missing school...
...It is important to remember that the SST was only a symbol—albeit a significant one—of the monstrous dislocations in our national life that remain to be set right...
...Yet he acknowledges—and the record of his investigation bears him out—that the inquiry left many questions unanswered about the nature and extent of official surveillance activities, and the purposes for which these activities are conducted...
...Nixon spoke of "strategic sufficiency" as the goal of American nuclear policy...
...Herbicides have been dumped over vast areas of South Vietnam, destroying civilian food crops and denuding forests...
...companies...
...It should be intolerable for a sizable segment of a major industry (agriculture) to depend on child labor for its survival...
...If Calley is guilty, some are saying, then those from whom he took his orders—the captains, the colonels, the generals, the Joint Chiefs, the Presidents—are at least as guilty...
...He could have secured more information about the oil resources at stake in Southeast Asia from back issues of Business Week, Forbes, Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, and Le Monde...
...It is still on the statute books...
...It will allow both Congress and the Executive Branch to base force levels on sound assessments of military needs...
...companies are interested in finding them...
...To many Americans of Japanese ancestry, the Act is an ugly reminder of the detention camps into which more than 100,000 of them were herded during World War II...
...In our judgment, the United States bears the major responsibility for the impasse, if only because it has a formidable lead in the nuclear arms race...
...Senator Ervin and other members of Congress plan to press for legislation that would impose some curbs on the Government's power to compile dossiers on private citizens...
...Representative Robert W. Kastenmeier, Wisconsin Democrat who heads a Judiciary subcommittee that recently held hearings on these bills, says he is confident of favorable action this year...
...The report discloses that the eleven-year-old girl who picks strawberries under the hot California sun earns a penny a box—but the berries retail at fifty cents a box...
...If the SST can be stopped," we wrote last fall, "it will serve as an encouraging indication that the forces of decency and sanity can still muster an occasional majority...
...he is paid $4.50 for his day's work...
...Anthony Lewis The New York Times years while the legislation is tested in the courts...
...The only safeguard necessary, Assistant Attorney General William H. Rehnquist testified, was the "self-discipline" of the Government itself...
...Among blacks there is a widespread suspicion that the provisions of the Act may some day be used against them—a suspicion that was aroused when the House Un-American Activities Committee proposed in 1968 that detention camps be activated to deal with "guerrilla warfare advocates in the United States...
...He is, and we are...
...Senate, some of whose members have acquired a measure of sophistication about the complexities of the arms race...
...Ask your legislator and Congressman what they will do—now—to see that the child labor laws are strengthened and rigorously enforced...
...One can ignore the hucksters who moved in to turn a fast buck with instant records, books, and souvenirs...
...The Soviet draft treaty made no specific mention of banning the use of biological weapons in war...
...The unresolved question is how these resources affect U.S...
...I've been telling them that the system doesn't work...
...On the strength of the evidence, justice has been done...
...Mailmen, telephone operators, students, and teachers are being enrolled as informants to help the Federal snoopers compile their extensive dossiers on private citizens...
...Today it is an incursion because it is the U.S.-Saigon response to any action employed by the other side which incurs allied wrath—such as shooting back at "our side...
...Such an investigation should be held, if only to expose the full extent of the barbarism that has been perpetrated in this horrible war...
...Humphrey proposed that the United States suspend deployment of ABM and MIRV on Minuteman missiles as "an important first step toward achieving success at the SALT talks...
...The team reported that "most of the day-haulers were children between the ages of eight and fifteen, recruited by teachers in the schools...
...policy in Indochina...
...It was almost as if years of frustration, anger, and despair had been released in one great outpouring of sympathy for "Rusty" Cailey and contempt for those who put him on trial...
...The American representative at the Geneva talks, Ambassador James F. Leonard, commented: "We think this is a major step forward in our negotiations and we are looking forward to achieving agreement in the near future...
...Cailey...
...Senator J. W. Fulbright, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has concluded—correctly, in our view—that it would be better to defer ratification of the protocol than to embody into it the Administration's "reservation," which the Federation of American Scientists has characterized as "highly questionable legally, absurd politically, repugnant morally, and foolish strategically...
...The good news from Geneva was that the Soviet delegate to the United Nations Disarmament Committee announced that his government, in an abrupt shift of policy, was now ready to proceed with a treaty outlawing the development, production, stockpiling, and acquisition of biological weapons and toxins and the means of delivering such agents, as well as provide for the destruction or diversion to peaceful uses of existing stockpiles...
...Even the Nixon Administration, after a period of shameful vacillation, now says it is "unequivocally in favor of repealing" the Act...
...The American Friends Service Committee recently disclosed some of the present-day horrors of child labor in "blue sky sweatshops" in a report based on the investigations of AFSC teams in Ohio, Maine, Washington, Oregon, and California...
...In Cambodia and Laos, according to the White House, we "bought time" by capturing enemy supply dumps, thus delaying North Vietnam's projected offensives...
...It should be held so that we can all reappraise the policies that led us into Indochina and that keep us there today...
...Citing these figures in The New York Times, Herbert Mitgang wrote: "Because of the ground invasions into populous areas of Cambodia and Laos and the poundings from the air that have reached a tempo of a thousand sorties a day, a new vale of tears is flowing across Southeast Asia...
...In addition, some will be overcome by the overwhelming personalities of the contacting agent and volunteer to tell all—perhaps on a continuing basis...
...In the present conflict, protective-reaction-air-strike means that the North Vietnamese are not going to get away with shooting at U.S...
...Senator George MgGovern or end...
...History, which has condemned Hitler's Third Reich for genocide, will not absolve our Government for what it has done in our name in Indochina...
...There is profit in the outdoor sweatshops...
...Most of the casualties are caused, and people made refugees, by American and allied military activity...
...One document instructed agents to step up their interviews with dissidents "for plenty of reasons, chief of which are it will enhance the paranoia endemic in these circles and will further serve to get the point across there is an FBI agent behind every mailbox...
...oil industry...
...officials "asks how many Laotian people have been killed by the tons of bombs and rockets we have poured into that unhappy land...
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