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Nixon in his campaign speeches promised to end the Vietnam war. Instead, he escalated that war, and it continued for four more years. Nixon secretly bombed Cambodia. The massive carpet-bombing of the Cambodian countryside caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and increased peasant support for the murderous Pol Pot. It helped facilitate the genocide that occurred later in Cambodia...
Fallows goes a bit far in skewering the press for becoming too querulous about official pronouncements. That habit began with the deceits of Lyndon Johnson about Vietnam and Richard Nixon about Cambodia and Watergate--and for good reason. But he is right that the effort to be tough often degenerates into being merely snarling and snide, with an elitist irony substituting for honest skepticism. Reporters earn their investigative stripes by chasing scandals and catching politicians in flip-flops, which divert attention from truly important policy issues that must be resolved. "The result is an arms race of 'attitude,' in which...
...Chorn Pond, founder of the first community service organization in Cambodia, shared his life experiences last night in Agassiz Theater, imploring the Harvard community to engage in public service...
...There are gang kids in Providence, Revere and Cambodia," Pond said before an audience of about 50. "They are waiting for you.... Just...
According to Judith Thompson, who introduced Pond as "the most remarkable person I've been lucky enough to meet," community service in politically unstable Cambodia is a radical and dangerous idea...