Mr. President. as the war continues and escalatesas we try to do from the air what we could not do from the groundnearly every aspect of our national policy and view is being swept aside. Instead of reports from the White House optimists about progress in "pacification" and "return to village" programs. we see the greatest movement of refugees. and the highest civilian casualty rate in the history of the war. We no longer hear the President speak much of ending the warbut simply of setting goals of peace. for which "we will do our very best to reach." And so the war drags onwith an incredible and needless cost in life and spirit and dollars. Since the renewed airwar over Indochina early this year. at least 100 American planes have been shot down over North Vietnam aloneand over 100 U.S. airmen are now captured or missingbringing to a total of nearly 550 the number of GIs added to the prisoner of war and missing in action lists since early 1969.
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