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$4 million for the WAR IN VIETNAM $l 1/2 million for the WAR ON POVERT i ie extee it f, ee Arh ger a ms val ‘ * ty vor, MORE ON DESTRUCTION THAN Wel wae est IN BASIC NEEDS ? ee ee 1946-1954 ‘The Vietnamese guerillas defeated the Frenc. aemy und won independence for Vietnam 1954 President Eisenhower said he "could conceive ; of no yreater tragedy than for the U.S. to become iavolved in an all-out war in Indo~ . China" (Vietnam). A Geneva agreement WE HAVE A CiWICE between i P rovided for elections so that Vietnamese, continuing a wae in Asia and sending 300,000 to ~ hag Meat South, could decide their own a million G.1[,'s for the benefit of a tyrannical " . government, or ‘i but in 1956 ‘The American supported government of peace and a war on poverty : South Vietnam refused to hold elections. . 3 ' Terror replaced progress. ; “re! f 1956 G00 U.S. soldiers aided aS. Vietnam . dictatorship . nc. 1961 1,650 G. I.'s were there "What used to be a civil war by the South Vietnamese gc | fo 1963. 16,500 G.L.'a , . ernment against the Viet Cong who were supported by: 1965 60,000 G.1.'8 (the tenth in this series of North Vietnam, at least to some exteut, has- now becom dictatorships) tp ormoeswm mes oo. 1 ane American war..." Joseph Clark, Senator from Pa. 1966 a