Word: cambodia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years since Henry Kissinger published the second of his three volumes of memoirs, which took him through Richard Nixon's resignation, and some wondered whether he would ever really write this final volume. The Gerald Ford years, after all, were filled with events (communist victories in Vietnam and Cambodia, the end of detente with Russia, arms-control stalemates) that weren't exactly ripe for recounting with relish...
Since taking office, Robinson has traveled to dozens of hot spots around the globe, including Iran and Cambodia...
...April 30, President Nixon announces the invasion of border regions of Cambodia by South Vietnamese and American troops, inciting student demonstrations and strikes across the nation. On May 3, a mass meeting of students, Faculty and staff votes to hold a University-wide strike...
Still wading through dangerous territory, but in a more secure position, Galbraith also wrote the legislation that provided humanitarian assistance in Cambodia after Pol Pot's rule...
...friend spent a semester organizing mine workers. Still others joined the Students for a Democratic Society. Many more of us joined the protests around the country. We marched against the Vietnam War in Boston, New York and Washington. In the spring of 1970, our protests against the bombing of Cambodia and the killings at Kent State University forced the University to cancel exams for the first time in its history. Harvard was changing as well. My first year at Harvard, my dorm, Eliot House, was the first dormitory to go co-ed, and men and women students shared bathrooms...