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During the lazy decades before the war in Viet Nam spread to Cambodia, now called Kampuchea, mornings in Phnom-Penh began when Buddhist bonzes filed slowly out from their wats (monasteries) in search of food. They proceeded along tree-lined boulevards, past colonial mansions and temples glistening with gold leaf, begging until their silver bowls were filled with rice and fresh mangoes. That usually did not take very long...
...bomber, he has since pushed ahead with cruise missile development and talked European allies into upgrading their theater nuclear forces. He is now pressing for the development of a new bomber incorporating the so-called stealth technology. Last December, influenced by Soviet moves in Africa, Viet Nam and Cambodia and the threat to Afghanistan, Carter came full circle and endorsed a sustained growth in defense spending. Later, when Soviet forces poured into Afghanistan, the President felt betrayed by Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, who had pledged his peaceful intentions only six months previously at their summit in Vienna...
While some people argue that Rep. John B. Anderson (R-Ill.) is an attractive alternative to the major party candidates, he cannot win. Nor is he the liberal he says he is. A hawk during the Vietnam War (he condoned the invasion of Cambodia and suggested President Nixon should receive the Nobel Peace Prize), he has consistently voted against labor, for nuclear power, and for increases in military spending. He opposes even the modest national health care plan supported by Carter. As an independent, he would find it impossible to work with the major parties in Congress...
...thing--just a little something that helps out," Louise Ryan, a graduate student in statistics who pulled together the original group of foster parents last year, said. "A lot of people were fired up then" because of the war and famine in Cambodia, she explained, adding, "I guess we could just have sent money, but this way you get some feedback and a continuing interest...
...Vice Premier nonetheless defended China's support for the genocidal regime of Pol Pot in Cambodia and disparaged accounts that 1 million people had died under Pol Pot's rule. By its occupation of Laos and Cambodia, Viet Nam, he said, had become "the Cuba of the East." China's own attack against Viet Nam last year was not very successful, he noted, because many countries disapproved of it. But "we reserve our right to give them another lesson...