Word: cambodia
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Somewhere in Cambodia, peasants are trudging back to their bombed out villages. Although fighting still flares between the revolutionary Khmer Rouge and the American-backed Lon No1 government, the murderous American bombing ended over two months ago, called off by Congressional decree after 160 consecutive days of aerial...
...late President John F. Kennedy '40, would have condemned a political impeachment of Nixon just as he abhorred in Profiles in Courage, the attempt to oust Andrew Johnson. Whether the issue is over secret bombings of Cambodia or a militarily imposed reconstruction of the South, the public and Congress should oppose an impeachment which places the opposition party in power...
...assaults on civil liberties and democratic procedures--the Huston plan for burglaries and illegal wiretappings, the burglary of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office, the apparent attempt to influence the judge in the Ellsberg case, his lies to Congress and the American people about the bombing of Cambodia--people who detested these actions should write to their representatives to call for impeachment...
...protester of the '60s, I feel that the plethora of Watergate evils disclosed so far and the admission of secret bombing in Cambodia have only confirmed that the youthful skeptics were accurate. With so much fuel for the fire, why have the protests ended? The answer is easy. You can bang your head against the wall only so long before it begins to hurt. I hope the pain will end soon, so that we can start putting our young and old heads together and bang anew...
...belongs to director Peter Pilafian, who has gathered all the ingredients for a traditional rock film and mixed them poorly. Jimi offstage mumbles, cuddles a friend and sips Budweiser. Jimi in rehearsal starts, stops and starts again. Performances are broken up by audience footage and newsfilms of the Berkeley Cambodia riots. All this is welcome relief, but never convincingly related to the music...