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...Stanley Karnow '45, foreign editor of The New Republic for two years, who quit last May. Things "came to a head," Karnow recalls, a day or two before the deadline of the May 24 issue, when President Ford announced that the United States had retaken the freighter Mayaguez after Cambodia had seized it. Karnow then wrote a two-paragraph editorial, that was mildly critical of U.S. policy and said that the military operation was staged "to rescue U.S. honor in wake of the Indochina debacle...
Balkanization, Trong said, tries to disrupt the unity of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam by aggravating border disputes and infiltrating those countries with Thai agents...
...spring of 1970, the Faculty amended the Resolution, changing the structure of the CRR. Coincidentally, Richard Nixon launched his Cambodia incursion that May, and Harvard was once again engulfed in political protests. After these demonstrations, the student members of the CRR resigned--two because they agreed with the anti-war demonstrations, the third because of pressure from other students to resign. For whatever their reasons, those three students began the boycott...
...Ford's Administration progressed, Kissinger's two-hat burden and Schlesinger's abrasiveness became more troublesome to the President, and in a way, the two problems began to merge. Last March, when Kissinger's Middle East shuttle collapsed just as South Viet Nam and Cambodia began to fall, the Secretary lashed out at Congress for not responding with more arms and money for Southeast Asia. Ford's advisers again warned that Kissinger was overworked and overwrought. But rather than rein in Kissinger, Ford joined him in an unproductive attack on Congress...
There has been no final resolution as to who ordered General Lavelle to bomb North Vietnam after the bombing had officially been halted, Hersh said, or on whose decision it was to drop 110,000 tons of bombs on Cambodia while President Nixon claimed publicly, "We have never violated the neutrality of Cambodia...