All the while. though. they continue to shatter the stillness at the 17th parallel in Vietnam. Even as the last of the fallen from the recent desert war are counted. the dead continue to pile up in Vietnam. If the plight of the refugees from less than a week of conflict in the Middle East weighs heavily on the human conscience. what is to be said of the immense accumulation of the uprooted and homeless after years of war in Vietnam? It does not minimize the recent clash In the Middle East to point out that a reasonably effective ceasefire has been achieved and the central concern Is now the design of a peace which will inhibit another outbreak of war. That Is a far cry from the situation in Vietnam.
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