Jane Fonda told an audience of 700 at the Law School Forum yesterday that there will not be peace in Indochina until the United States ends all aid to South Vietnam and Cambodia.
"How do you end a war that people don't think exists," Fonda said. "People are dying, fighting and being tortured and we are told it's over."
Fonda charged that the United States is creating a "massive police state" by supporting the "unpopular and undemocratic dictatorship" of South Vietnamese President Nguyen Thieu.
Since Richard M. Nixon lost the support of Congress after the Watergate scandal, Fonda said, the Indochina Peace Campaign (IPC), a grassroots organization to which she belongs, persuaded Congress last fall to cut $474 million from Nixon's military aid request for Saigon and Laos.
"Now, with less aid to Saigon, the people, not the communists, are taking to the streets," Fonda said. "They are not so repressed. It is a Vietnamese Watergate."
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