Corruption has become public. open. and as it were. an incurable disease. President Thieu responds by ramming legislation through the South Vietnamese national assembly to effectively prevent the vice president from seeking election to the presidency. And all the while the South- Vietnamese social order. fragmented to begin with. and its primitive economy crumble under the damage and destruction and uprooting. the floods of refugees. the overwhelming weight of the American presence. the needs of the widows. the orphaned and the crippled. the great swaths of death and despair. It is against this backdrop that we debate the McGovernHatfield amendment. If we set December 31. 1971--or a later date if necessaryas the terminal date for our military presence. we could without much doubt then negotiate schedules for the withdrawal of all American forces and for the .return of all American prisoners by such a date.
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