Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case is the least baffling, for the outspoken Alaskan has been on thin ice since his renowned letter to Nixon last May was leaked to the press even before the President had seen it. With the nation's campuses in an anti-Administration uproar over the Cambodian invasion, Hickel wrote Nixon that he had failed to give the young a hearing, and was ignoring some of his Cabinet members, Hickel included, into the bargain. (Hickel took up pen only when he was denied a meeting with Nixon.) During the fall campaign, Hickel traveled more on behalf...
...filibuster can be tied to the $1 billion foreign aid appropriations bill that includes a $255 million in assistance to Cambodia. Democratic leaders expect to be able to defeat the Cambodian appropriation, but it would be far more dramatic and meaningful to use it to tie up that Congress-essentially to shut it down-down until the closing days of the session...
Last week's bombing raids signal jut the opposite-much more clearly than the Cambodian invasion. The master plan, according to Washington sources, calls for a continued presence of a smaller troop commitment over the next several years, bolstered by increasing and wider bombing pressure to keep the North Vietnamese "off balance," The war will not end and the best Nixon can hope for is that less Americans will die there and the eyes of the public will turn away...
...political calculations of the Administration, every American who does not protest the renewed bombing casts a passive vote for the continued extermination of the Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Lao people...
...city's edginess started last spring when about two dozen of Haverhill's 2,400 high school students tried to lead a demonstration against the Cambodian invasion and the Kent and Jackson State killings. They were beaten by members of the football team while police quietly watched. This fall, they put out an underground paper called the Mad Hatter. According to a local attorney, the school committee reacted to its four-letter words "as if they had come on the first copy of Das Kapital." The members banned the sheet from the school, calling it "filth" and "insanity...