RICHARD RUSSELL. as "one of the great tragedies of our history." And seldom has a Member of this body done the physical and mental spadework about the sickening complexity that is Vietnam as has the senior Senator from Massachusetts. EDWARD M. KENNEDY. He has. with candor and objectivity. thoroughly analyzed the interplaying tragedy of millions of Vietnamese refugees whose plight Is made the more desperate by indiscriminate American military operations and the bottomless corruption of the Saigon government. Since his recent return from an exhaustive trip to Vietnam. Senator KENNEDY has examined the human cost of the war in terms of the homeless and the destitute.
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The plight of refugees is made more desperate by indiscriminate American military operations and the bottomless corruption of the Saigon government.