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...that the next day would be it. The American embassy spread word to newsmen who would go to gather at the Phnom Hotel, Phnom-Penh's journalistic watering hole, at 7 a.m. The night was relatively calm. No Cambodians could have guessed that the U.S. was about to abandon them...
During a televised press conference, Ford avoided placing blame except on North Viet Nam, for violating the Paris accords, and on President Thieu, for his "unilateral decision" to abandon the northern provinces without first consulting or informing the U.S. But before the conference was over, and even while saying that he would not point an accusing finger, he clearly implied that the Democratic-controlled Congress was a major force behind the South Vietnamese collapse. Ford said he felt "frustrated by the action of Congress" in failing to approve the full amounts that he had requested for aid to South Viet...
Thieu's obsessive reclusiveness has cost his country dearly in recent weeks. Apparently, after consulting only two close aides, he summarily ordered ARVN to abandon three provinces in the Central Highlands and the northernmost province of Quang Tri. Most Pentagon analysts acknowledge that on paper Thieu's strategy may have been sound: by shrinking his lines of defense, he should have, theoretically, made it easier to protect the most important areas of the country. But the same analysts roundly condemn Thieu's execution of that strategy. A "retrograde" maneuver ? as the experts euphemistically term such a withdrawal ? requires...
...Crimson is to develop a healthy adversary relationship with Mass Hall, and if the students and faculty are to achieve any real understanding of the way the administration thinks and works, they will have to abandon the standard stereotypes and misconceptions which color current relations between the administration and the University community. If The Crimson asks tough questions rather than loaded questions, if students try to think in terms of human administrators instead of stereotypical bureaucrats, a higher and more productive level of understanding can be reached between Mass Hall and the community it serves. And perhaps students will come...
Worse still, the disorderly retreat of the troops helped create a psychology of panic that led tens of thousands of civilians to abandon their homes. Indeed, the dissolution of authority seemed as important in touching off the tidal flow of refugees as fear of the Communists or a preference for Saigon...