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Bradley began his broadcast career as a radio disc jockey and became a full-time correspondent for CBS in 1973. He covered the fall of Cambodia and Viet Nam in 1975 and was named White House correspondent in 1976. Two years later he joined CBS Reports, where two of his stories won Emmys. Next year he will begin as a correspondent on the top-rated 60 Minutes...
...competition. Carter's human rights campaign is now viewed as having often embarrassed U.S. allies and hardened the opposition of adversaries. His vague notion, preached mostly by his friend and onetime U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, that the radical nations were our natural allies has been mocked in Viet Nam, Cambodia and Iran. "It is not that he does not mean well," says one thoughtful critic of Carter. "It is that almost everything he has touched he has made worse. He operated from the wrong concept of his job, the wrong theory of international affairs, and he uses administrative procedures that...
...army to about 60 divisions of some 1 million men. With more than 2.6 million men under arms-many of them in a highly trained, combat-ready militia-Viet Nam has the third largest military force in the world.* Pulling most of its crack divisions out of Vietnamese-occupied Cambodia, Hanoi has massed 250,000 to 300,000 troops along its frontier with China. Another invasion by Peking, Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach has warned, would lead to swift and humiliating defeat for the Chinese...
Western analysts are not so confident. Like the P.L.A., Hanoi's forces are stretched thin, with 200,000 troops in Cambodia and 40,000 in Laos. Preoccupied with the threat from the north, the Vietnamese have replaced seasoned troops in Cambodia with raw draftees from South Viet Nam. Numerous desertions from Vietnamese army ranks in Cambodia suggest that morale is low among Southern recruits, who lack enthusiasm for Hanoi's cause...
...present strong position in Indochina. For Moscow, the partnership keeps China off-balance and helps the Soviets gain influence in all of Southeast Asia. But fiercely independent Viet Nam is no complaisant puppet. Some Western experts believe that Hanoi did not seek prior approval from Moscow before invading Cambodia in December 1978 to unseat the Pol Pot regime. They also think that if it came to a truly hard choice-accepting further Soviet aid at the cost of forsaking their own goals-the Vietnamese would bite the bullet, as it were, and go it alone...