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...suit was filed by Morton Halperin, who, as an aide to National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, was suspected of leaking information about the secret bombing of Cambodia. The tap on Halperin's home phone lasted 21 months, long after he had left the Government and joined the campaign staff of Democratic Presidential Candidate Edmund Muskie. No evidence was produced that Halperin had leaked classified information, and his lawyers charged that the eavesdropping was for political rather than security purposes. Nixon's lawyers claimed that a President should be immune from suits arising from his official acts...
...considerations. With the support of Administration officials, including National Security Adviser Richard Allen, the Secretary hoped to build a consensus between Washington and Peking on the two countries' shared wariness of the Soviet Union. Haig wanted to discuss the possibility of U.S. support for a united front in Cambodia against the Vietnamese-backed regime in Phnom-Penh. He also wished to explore the feasibility of cooperating with the Chinese in supplying arms to the rebel forces in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan. The challenge Haig faced was a delicate one: moving toward greater rapprochement with Peking while steering clear...
...being French: Let us speak of the forgotten man, abandoned, lost, delivered over to the powers that crush him. People in most places are dying of hunger, of misery and solitude; a whole people was killed in Cambodia, and another is being killed in Timor; the children of Uganda awake to the consciousness of the wretchedness of having been born; and the birds of prey-the world powers-are gnawing on the bones of 2,000 million human beings. Where would the established order be on two-thirds of this planet without the machine gun or the rope, torture...
...cause that drew students into the streets of East Lansing in numbers unmatched since the bombing of Cambodia was neither solidarity with people halfway across the world, nor opposition to their university's "immoral investments." (MSU divested of its holdings in companies involved with South Africa several years ago, one of a handful of educational institutions to do so.) The driving force behind student militancy this year was self-preservation. Students sought to shield their academic interests from the budget ax, as the MSU administration struggled to cope with a budget deficit that was out of control...
...thought we were going to Cambodia...