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Richardson was director of the Pentagon in 1973 when the Nixon administration began six months of merciless bombing in Cambodia. His appointment as successor to Melvin Laird was announced before the carpet-bombing of Hanoi which began in December 1972. Richardson did not refuse that December to become Secretary of Defense. At no time did he make any public statement to protest the terror. He did not resign in February rather than help direct the indiscriminate bombing of Cambodian homes, farms and villages. If Richardson secretly opposed such devastation, he lacked the courage to act on his conviction...
...university is at all politically active, spring is the time when things begin to hop. Harvard is no exception. April 1969 saw the takeover of University Hall. Spring exams were cancelled in 1970 after students struck against the invasion of Cambodia. In March 1972 a student takeover of Massachusetts Hall sparked widespread demonstrations against Harvard's ownership of stock in Gulf Oil. This spring there has been no outpouring of political enthusiasm, but perhaps there would have been none at all if it were not for the efforts of the New American Movement...
...drew fire last week-from South Viet Nam. Beauvoir and Sartre, along with a group of fellow French intellectuals, appealed to the next French government to recognize the Viet Cong's Provisional Revolutionary Government and further to recognize the exiled Prince Sihanouk as the rightful ruler of neighboring Cambodia...
...long as the Nixon administration continues its aggressive war and intervention in Cambodia to try to save its creature, the band of traitors in Phnom Penh, the Cambodian people and its heroic People's Army for National Liberation, under the direction of the National United Front of Cambodia and the Royal Government of the National Cambodian Union headed by Norodom Sihanouk, chief of state of the Kingdom of Cambodia, will have no other honorable alternative but to continue without compromise or hesitation their war of resistance till it ends in total victory...
...subcommittee served the seniors and Harvard poorly by extending a Class Day invitation to Elliot L. Richardson '41. Richardson, the seniors' fourth choice for the invitation, was secretary of defense for the first two of six months in 1973 during which the United States mercilessly and criminally bombed Cambodia. Although Richardson resigned last October as attorney general on a supposed matter of principle, he had presumably felt it in accord with his conscience nine months earlier to defend and help perpetuate Nixon's war policies--policies which had led to the terror bombing of Hanoi just before Richardson took over...