Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Staff, Senator William Fulbright declared: "I have been hornswoggled long enough!" Then he asked Moorer whether he knew of "any plans now to invade any other country in the foreseeable future." Senator Albert Gore accused Nixon of informing leaders of veterans' and retired officers' groups about his Cambodian plans two days before Congress and the nation were told on April 30. The White House denied it. Other, less vehement critics of the war were also on the attack. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield said that the U.S. was in danger of being dragged into Saigon's territorial ambitions...
...conference, when he said that he "would expect" Saigon's troops to withdraw at the same time U.S. forces do, the President had also said: "When we come out, our logistical and air support will also come out." However, there are reports that the next installment of the Cambodian venture will be sustained combat by South Vietnamese forces, supported by Thailand and the U.S. (see THE WORLD...
...this month, on his sixth visit to Indochina, Dudman left Saigon in a turquoise scout car for a firsthand look at developments across the Cambodian border in Svay Rieng province and perhaps Phnom-Penh. Driving the car was Michael Morrow, 24, a founder and correspondent of Dispatch News Service, the tiny agency that distributed Seymour Hersh's Pulitzer-prizewinning story on My Lai. Between the two men sat Elizabeth Ann Pond, 33, on leave from her job as Viet Nam correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor...
Noncombative. The trip was supposed to take less than two days. Beth Pond, in fact, was due the next night at a small dinner party being given by South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu. But the group ran into difficulty at a Cambodian army roadblock on the outskirts of Svay Rieng town. Ronald Ross, correspondent for the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, was in another vehicle ahead of them. "I looked back and saw Dick and Beth arguing with the Cambodians about getting through," he says. Ross continued on his way. Dudman, Morrow and Pond have not been heard from since...
...trio's disappearance brought the number of journalists missing in the Cambodian-South Vietnamese area to eleven, including two other Americans (TIME, April 20). As official and unofficial attempts to locate them continued last week, one response came from Cambodia's deposed Prince Sihanouk. Cabled in Peking by the Christian Science Monitor, Sihanouk replied: "If news of these journalists reaches us at any time, I shall not fail to inform...