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...Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention-both treaties have been signed by Moscow-by engaging in chemical warfare. "With every passing day," charged Secretary of State Alexander Haig in February, "we get more incontrovertible evidence of the use of mycotoxins [fungal poisons] in Afghanistan, Laos and Kampuchea [Cambodia] . . . There is no question in our minds that such weapons have been and are continuing to be used...
...addition, Oberg is writing an article on Cambodia that Foreign Affairs might publish and is working on a book about Vietnam. For this diplomat-turned scholar, the days are well-filled...
...November 1973. By then, a U.S. Congress that was increasingly challenging the authority of the President had voted to forbid all American military action in Indochina. With this prohibition, Kissinger notes, "our principal bargaining leverage was lost." As a result, an American proposal for a cease-fire in Cambodia was aborted-the Khmer Rouge had no need to negotiate for something that had already been handed to them by Congress-and Chou Enlai, who had agreed to lend China's weight to the proposal, was seriously embarrassed. The Chinese, says Kissinger, were "no longer sure of how steady...
...attack by regular units across a well-defined boundary in Indochina, but the seeping-in of hostile forces across trackless jungles. These forces were supplied from neutral countries that wanted only to be left alone. The Ho Chi Minh Trail ran through Laos; North Vietnamese sanctuaries were established in Cambodia. By a weird inversion of logic, whenever we reacted by seeking to intercept the totally illegal supply lines, it was we who were accused of violating the neutrality of Cambodia and Laos...
...evil, corrupt, militaristic capitalist system. They treated the Viet Cong as a progressive movement, North Viet Nam as a put-upon, heroic revolutionary country and Communism as the wave of the future in Indochina, if not in the entire developing world. They were outraged by our incursion into Cambodia less because of the alleged extension of the war than because they feared it might lead to success. Concern for the future of Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians under Communism was contemptuously dismissed as a subterfuge for continuing a war conducted for more sinister purposes. Our fear of the decline of American...