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Griffin Daily News
BRUCE BIOSSAT
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WASHINGTON (NEA)
The day it becomes clear we are largely out of Vietnam
will be the dawning of a new age of self-discovery for
Americans.
Vietnam has been the great alibi. For years now, it has
been argued by diverse groups in different ways that, so
long as we were there, we would have neither the will nor
the capacity to fix up our crumbling cities, get people out
of poverty, improve health care, attend to the racial
struggle.
Well, on Peace Day Plus One we’ll begin to find out
just how authentic that alibi has been.
Some recent travelers abroad tell me that influential
Europeans think Americans today are, on the whole, a
pretty unstable people. You can’t translate that into pro
war attitudes on the part of these Europeans. But they
believe the war has destroyed our balance and perspective.
If they are wrong, if we still are stable, we really won’t
start to learn for sure until we’re out. A key thing to
watch will be whether we quickly grab for new alibis in
the event our present chaos and confusion continue.
Money will be a great focus. For two or three years
we’ve been getting warnings very soundly based, that
there will be no whopping peace dividend after Vietnam.
Yet the country is full of disbelievers on this score. Those
who have disbelieved, or have postponed looking at the
evidence, may undergo a great awakening after Peace
Day.
Disillusionment is said to be deep today. What new
depths will it plumb when the harsh money realities sink
home with fresh force? What frustrations will follow that
“discovery,” and what attitudes and actions will they
spawn?
From President Nixon to Sen. George McGovern, it is
taken for granted that “there will be no more Vietnams.”
Hanoi watching for ’72 events
By ROBERT BETTS
Copley News Service
If Hanoi has been paying
attention to the agonized
American debate over ending
the war, it should by now have
a fat red ring marked around
1972. It looks like being a
decisive year in Vietnam.
Throughout all the con
troversy, the presidential
pledges and the clamor of
critics, 1972 has kept turning up
like a fateful card on a fortune
teller’s table.
President Nixon himself
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Thursday, June 10,1971
Where Away After Vietnam?
Great Awakening for the U.S.?
provided an early pointer in
October, 1969, when he
promised that the war would be
over “in just three years.”
He has kept his word on
gradual withdrawal, and has
even moved ahead of schedule.
Authorized U. S. troop strength
in Vietnam has been reduced
from a maximum of 549,000
when he took office to 273,400.
Under the present withdrawal
program, the total is expected
to drop to 184,000 by Dec. 1.
While he consistently has
refused to announce a deadline
for total withdrawal, he has
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
The feeling everywhere is that, after six years or more in
Southeast Asia, the American people just won’t lend any
kind of support to limited wars.
Still, there obviously is no guarantee that in the decades
immediately ahead the world is suddenly going to become
placid. Or that the Soviet Union, Red China and perhaps
some others are really going to renounce their pushy
ways.
How would we react to a new crisis over Berlin or
Cuba? Maybe there isn’t going to be any. But in this
wobbly world one would be silly to bank on it.
Those long gray vessels the Russians have in the Medi
terranean aren’t fishing trawlers. Lately Moscow has been
sending “cargo ships” to, of all places, Spanish ports. But
those detecting devices they’ve got on the masts are not
designed to sniff out markets. They’re monitoring our
bases in Spain.
And what the Soviets are doing with and for the Egyp
tians hardly comes under the head of peace-mongering.
The British author C. P. Snow is only one among many
who have said in recent times that a great nation must
do, and must believe it can do, many big things at one
time.
Actually, throughout our Vietnam era we have done
much more than the one-thing-at-a-time boys would have
us believe. Though we don’t keep up with the problem,
we have lifted millions out of poverty. We have provided
vastly better health care (with more still needed), wid
ened education, begun to attack pollution, gone to the
moon, kept a strong force in Europe, eased some parts
of racial strife.
The question for peace day: Can we find the resolves
for larger tasks and new crises after hearing for six years
that Vietnam destroyed our ability to do anything else?
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offered himself as being ac
countable if he fails to keep his
election pledge to end
American involvement.
This has been interpreted as
meaning that the United States,
or at least its ground forces,
will be out of Vietnam before
November, 1972, at least, when
Nixon will presumably be
running for reelection.
Some of his Republican
supporters think it would be
better, for his future and theirs,
if the date were brought for
ward nearer to next March,
when New Hampshire will hold
the first primary election.
There, Nixon could be
challenged on the straight issue
of Vietnam by a Republican
dove, Rep. Paul McCloskey, R-
Calif.
Newsmen were in fact told
recently by a key ad
ministration official during a
question and answer session
that Vietnam would no longer
be an issue by next February.
In addition to widespread
antiwar demonstrations,
pressure on the President has
taken the form of more than 20
resolutions and bills introduced
in Congress, aimed either at
setting a definite date for
terminating the war, or cir
cumscribing the President’s
freedom of action in other
ways.
Discounting the wild
demands of disruptive “peace”
protesters, the earliest date for
total withdrawal suggested by
the more responsible critics of
administration policy is the end
of this year.
Sen. George McGovern, D-
S.D., a leading dove and an an
nounced Democratic presi
dential candidate, says he
believes the Senate will vote to
set a year-end deadline for
U. S. withdrawal and that there
is a “fighting chance” the end
the-war amendment will pass
the House, too.
The amendment, proposed
by McGovern and Sen. Mark
Hatfield, R-Ore., with 24 co
sponsors, would forbid war
spending except to terminate
U. S. military operations to
safely withdraw U. S. forces by
Dec. 31, and to insure the
release of prisoners of war.
Main objection to this
amendment is that the deadline
serves to alert Hanoi as to when
the United States definitely is
pulling out.
“But that is precisely what
the situation demands if we
wish to end this terrible war,”
McGovern answers. He said he
was willing to be judged in
history on the assertion that “if
we will make a flat com
mitment to withdrawal of our
forces by the end of this year,
we can break the negotiating
stalemate in Paris, we can get
discussions started on the
release of our prisoners, we can
secure assurances as to the
safety of our forces while they
are being withdrawn."
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