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CAMBODIAN BOMBING. William Beecher, a Washington correspondent for the New York Times (now an official at the Pentagon), reported on May 9, 1969 that U.S. B-52s were bombing Communist targets in Cambodia for the first time in the Indochina war-and with the tacit approval of Cambodia's then ruler Norodom Sihanouk. The report seems to have had little impact upon enemy action since the Communists knew perfectly well that they were being bombed. But the disclosure itself clouded the Administration's credibility (as well as that of Prince Sihanouk), since Nixon had been trying to convince...
...Watergate affair was a portrait of the ship of state with its hull full of holes inflicted by the crew. It was a view of the most powerful man on earth duped by his confidants-a kind of "pitiful giant," to repeat a phrase from his 1970 speech on Cambodia. Can this truly be the state of the presidency...
...worthwhile noting in this regard that by Berger's criteria, the president could be constitutionally impeached if he continued to bomb Cambodia after the Congress passed a law forbidding...
Most of the ground troops, however, are non-Communist Khmers recruited in 1970 and 1971. Because it is a lush, underpopulated nation where most of the peasants own land, Cambodia was hardly fertile soil for spawning revolutionaries. But with careful use of propaganda and the Sihanouk name (still revered in the countryside), the insurgents and their North Vietnamese advisers were able to raise a substantial army. Good revolutionary manners helped. The North Vietnamese always paid for their rice and left the women alone. They provided medical treatment as well. Only after a period of moving in and establishing rapport with...
...willing to settle for a coalition government if they could only get rid of Lon Nol. On the other hand, it is argued, why should they agree to talk with a government they have all but defeated on the battlefield? Still another view is that any settlement in Cambodia is not in the Communists' interests at this time because it would be overly threatening to the U.S., South Viet Nam and Thailand. Indeed, when the time is ripe for the K.I. to negotiate, it seems likely that the many faces of the K.I.-which, for the present, appear...