Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still underestimate the criminal significance. Electronic eavesdropping and official lists of enemies have imperiled our freedom for years to come, but while transfixed with the unfolding truth of Watergate, we merely counted down the days for a cruel systematic bombing of Cambodia. We numbly accepted the revelation of the Cambodian bombing coverups and the lies that structured them -- reacting more angrily to the lies than the bombings themselves...
...Hanoi-backed Khmer insurgents make their big move? Despite several weeks of concentrated assaults by American B-52s, the rebel forces had been able to move to within ten miles of the capital of Phnom-Penh prior to the deadline. Those sweeping advances suggested that the troops of Cambodian President Lon Nol, once they were denied the support of U.S. warplanes, would be hard-pressed to stave off a major enemy attack...
...avoiding. Of 20 questions put to the President -some with a hostility that bordered on rudeness-no fewer than 16 involved Watergate and directly related matters. Two others concerned Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's legal troubles, another concerned assassination attempts, and a final query centered on the Cambodian bombing. Of this single-mind-edness, the President complained at one point: "We've had 30 minutes of this press conference, and I have yet to have, for example, one question on the business of the people." The extraordinary implication was that the Watergate scandal is somehow...
...consequence, Watergate, which is close to home, has gripped students here as well as the rest of the nation while the more monstrous Nixon crimes go unnoticed. There is no Cambodian Bach Mai Hospital to which one can point as a vivid and burning reminder that that war has not ended...
...achieved at Harvard in the absence of Vietnam is an open question. The war presented us with a stark contrast between good and evil, a contrast which blurs into varying shades of grey on other issues. Criminal apocalypses loomed at several junctures over the past decade--the Cambodian invasion, the mining--but now, in the relative quiet of the moment, our fears at them seem almost juvenile. With the war nearly over, the imperatives for action are less obvious, less strident...