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...Halperin manage to get himself caught between the cross hairs of a confirmation hearing so savage it resembled a drive-by shooting? True, Halperin is a liberal icon whose career stretches from the Nixon Administration -- he resigned in 1970 over the White House's policy on Cambodia -- to Washington director of the American Civil Liberties Union. But it is his nomination to the Pentagon's newly created position in charge of peacekeeping operations abroad that has turned him into an object lesson in the way a band of conservative Congressmen, bureaucrats and ideological crusaders are using the Senate's confirmation...
Yasushi Akashi, who ran the U.N. mission in Cambodia, looks back on that $1.5 billion operation with some skepticism. "The quality of personnel was not uniformly outstanding," he says. "Civil administration was an area in which the U.N. had no experience." The peacekeepers were supposed to create a neutral political environment for elections. U.N. officials acknowledged that no adequate control over civil administration was ever established. Materiel was routinely stolen from the airport before being logged in. Cambodian cleaning women stripped the mission of at least 10 computers before they were caught. The wait for official supplies of pens...
...revival of the United Nations has led to a proliferation of peacekeeping and nation-building operations in places like Somalia, Cambodia, Angola and El Salvador. These are often long term operations that have social or political goals rather than military ones; they focus, not on vanquishing an enemy, but on rebuilding societies. Still, these U.N. operations often involve some military presence, and forces are still necessary both for general security and for providing occasional muscle...
...would go so much further. She had become more radicalized in the spring of 1970 when Nixon sent troops into Cambodia and four Kent State student protesters were killed by the National Guard. Power had also fallen under the spell of Stanley Bond, an ex-convict who had enrolled in an inmate- education program at Brandeis. Three hours after meeting him, Onorato says, "I went to the dean of faculty to object because within a half-hour's conversation with him I thought this boy was borderline psychotic." But to Power he was a romantic revolutionary who could help...
PHNOM PENH -- The Thai military is secretly supporting the Cambodian KHMER ROUGE, the party responsible for the massacre of more than 1 million Cambodians when it ran the country during the 1970s. Officials with the United Nations Transitional authority in Cambodia say 400 Khmer Rouge guerrillas, fleeing an offensive by the Cambodian army, were evacuated by Thai army trucks and driven through Thai territory to a Khmer Rouge base. UNTAC officials wanted to announce their discovery but were overruled by officials at the U.N. headquarters in New York City who didn't want an open dispute with Thailand...