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...public administration from the University of Michigan, then worked for his family's computer service firm in Rochester. He joined the staff of the state of Ohio's legislative service commission in 1955, and served as an adviser for the U.S. AID program in Cambodia from...
...their colleagues at Manhattan's International Center of Photography, officers of the American Committee to Free Journalists Held in Southeast Asia reported that a number of the newsmen may still be alive. They are thought to be in the hands of insurgent Khmers Rouges forces in Cambodia, where most of the 23 disappeared after the 1970 U.S. invasion. Committee Chairman Walter Cronkite said that the group was continuing to press diplomats and travelers in Southeast Asia for word of the missing, and had even been approached by a private U.S. intelligence firm that proposed assembling a mercenary force...
...late '60s? Not at all. The familiar scenes were actually enacted last week, two years after the Paris peace agreement was supposed to have stopped the fighting in Viet Nam. This time the call for more military money to help anti-Communist forces in both Viet Nam and Cambodia came from President Gerald Ford. In a coordinated drive, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger added their personal public appeals. Even Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu suddenly submitted to interviews with a dozen newsmen. The net impression...
Ford's explanation in a message to Congress was that the U.S., to protect its own "national security," should give South Viet Nam a supplemental appropriation of $300 million and the anti-Communist government of Cambodia's Lon Nol $222 million. Said Ford: "We cannot turn our backs on these embattled countries. U.S. unwillingness to provide adequate assistance to allies fighting for their lives would seriously affect our credibility throughout the world." All that was being sought for Saigon, Kissinger said, was for Congress to provide the funds that it had authorized for the current fiscal year...
...there Americans! I'm Richard Nixon, remember me? Remember the effervescent early seventies? Remember those challenging times when we had both recession and inflation, the glittering carpet bombing of Cambodia in Christmas of '72, the days when a politician could be two-faced without being two-timed by a baby-faced, punk afraid of being molested in prison...