Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Viet Nam War wound down, the campuses and ghettos cooled; the riots after the Cambodian invasion and the killings at Kent State were the last major eruption. Quiet set in partly from sheer exhaustion
...facts were not challenged. The U.S. made more than 3,600 B-52 sorties and dropped 100,000 tons of bombs on that nation at a time when Nixon was publicly proclaiming that its neutrality was being respected. The Administration later contended that the secrecy was necessary to maintain Cambodian Prince Sihanouk's tacit approval of the action, which was aimed at Communist troops in border mountains, not at civilians. The arguments were carried most effectively by New York Democrat Elizabeth Holtzman and Alabama's Flowers...
...before the carpet-bombing of Hanoi which began in December 1972. Richardson did not refuse that December to become Secretary of Defense. At no time did he make any public statement to protest the terror. He did not resign in February rather than help direct the indiscriminate bombing of Cambodian homes, farms and villages. If Richardson secretly opposed such devastation, he lacked the courage to act on his conviction. If he supported the bombing--as his direction of the American war effort at the time suggests--his act of integrity in the Watergate investigation cannot compensate for his complicity...
...hecklers at political rallies to require candidates to respond to the concerns of public assemblies instead of delivering pre-packaged platitudes. An expression of hostility against Richardson would not bring peace to Southeast Asia. It would not resurrect the bodies or homes destroyed by the devastation of the Cambodian countryside. It would not compensate for a moratorium in government support for the protection of civil rights of minority groups and women, which Richardson oversaw as secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. A hostile reception could only be a sign, but it could be an important sign nonetheless...
...expect from Eric Sevareid. Sure enough, Mrs. Joan Payson, who owns the Mets, turned out to be a big contributor to the Committee to Re-elect. Tom Seaver and Ed Kranepool and so on used to appear on Sesame Street about once a week, but still...what about the Cambodian kids...