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During the Viet Nam War, the U.S. justified its bombing raids on Cambodia by arguing that Cambodia was a neutral country being used by the Viet Cong to launch attacks on South Viet Nam. Now, ironically, William Clark is afraid that Nicaragua will strike against Honduras in order to stop the U.S.-backed contras who are operating from there...
...lessons learned in Viet Nam can be applied to Central America: we cannot hesitate, and we must be decisive. Acting quickly and firmly is the only way to show the Soviets that we are serious. President Reagan is trying to follow this course. But Congress, which wants to reduce our aid to Central America, is leading us into another Viet Nam...
...World War II, American soldiers darted across Europe in Jeeps and swarmed ashore on to Pacific islands from LSTs. By the 1960s, G.I.s were commuting to and from action in Viet Nam by helicopter. The chopper, in fact, is symbolic of that war, and memories of 'Nam still echo with the beat of rotor blades...
...political reasons China cannot maintain production from its existing wells, much less develop these huge crude reserves by itself. Last year China signed a separate joint-development contract with Atlantic Richfield, which has already begun test drilling in a 3,500-sq.-mi. block off the coast of Viet Nam...
...able to go to a summit in Moscow and sign the SALT I accords in an election year, when he was doing a number of things that made the Soviets furious, such as cozying up to the Chinese and mining and bombing the U.S.S.R.'s ally North Viet Nam...