Mr. President. the most tragic aspect of the Indochina war has been its devastating impact upon the people and societies throughout the region. The cumulative statistics of the human costs of this warthe millions of refugees. the hundreds of thousands of war victims. widows. and orphansdefy understanding. But nothing so graphically reminds us of the human debris this war has left behind than the faces of the children of Indochinafaces of nearly one million orphans in South Vietnam alone. of millions in refugee camps throughout Indochina. and countless thousands in the wards of hospitals maimed by war. Recently this side of the Vietnam tragedythe impact of the war on Vietnams childrenwas reviewed in an outstanding series of articles by Daniel Southerland. the Saigon correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. Mr.
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