Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carswell defeat. As a New York Times political reporter visiting Harvard last spring suggested to a group of students he talked with, it seems quite plausible that Nixon suffered some kind of severe psychic setback after that Senate vote. The reporter felt as well that the then ongoing Cambodian crisis-both the invasion and the super patriotic rhetoric surrounding it-was a product of the same upset mind. He added, of course, that the President was sufficiently isolated from reporters and public that it might take more than a year to discover any stripped gears in the Chief Executive...
...told that the primary cause of campus unrest is the Vietnam War and the Cambodian incursion. I have been a critic of the Vietnam War ever since I found that we're not trying to win it. But I've never felt the need to incite a riot.... Let's give our soldiers as much power as we've got, let's win the war and bring the boys home." The audience immediately rose applauding, and shouts of YAAAAA-HOOOOO rose over the ovation...
...mixed chorus of reverberating Buddhist gongs and an authoritative 101-gun artillery salute, one of the oldest monarchies on earth was pronounced dead last week. In ceremonies before a joint session of the Cambodian Parliament, the President of Cambodia's National Assembly declared: "I, In Tam, officially proclaim the Khmer republic. Our country is indivisible." The fabled Khmer empire-begun in 802, conqueror of much of Southeast Asia a millennium ago, creator of the glories of Angkor Wat-was no more. In the newly named Place de la République near the former Royal Palace, Premier...
...army's first real test came at Kompong Thom, where about 1,000 men broke a three-month siege in early September. The Communists slipped away and moved down Route Six, a crucially important supply line in the north. Encouraged by their success at Kompong Thom, the Cambodians went after the enemy. After a two-week battle, Cambodian troops entered Taing Kauk, much of which had been reduced with the help of air strikes to rubble. After the initial battle, one of the 36 women volunteers involved in the action reported: "I'm very happy that...
...five points were: a call for a standstill cease-fire all over Indochina under international supervision; an Indochina peace conference to settle the Vietnamese, Laotian and Cambodian disputes: negotiations on a timetable for troop withdrawals; a political settlement reflecting the present balance of forces in South Vietnam; and the immediate release of all prisoners of war by both sides...