Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officials awaited a signal to dispatch a helicopter to pick up the V.C. delegation chief (a general, most likely), who would be waiting either in the U Minh forest, an old Communist stronghold in the southern tip of the country, or in the area west of Saigon near the Cambodian border...
Another friend of mine was on the 1970 drive into Cambodia. His company ran into elements of the North Vietnamese Army holed up in a Cambodian village, and they called in massive air strikes. As American fighter-bombers screamed in at tree-top level. North Vietnamese soldiers stood calmly in the center of the village, firing rifles at the planes. People like this could never be stopped by mere technology...
...acting as much out of petulance as out of any thoughtful diplomatic or military stratagems. James Reston of the New York Times called it "war by tantrum." But the Administration, as L.B.J. liked to say, simply hunkered down, keeping its own counsel. At the time of the Cambodian invasion and during the resumption of the bombing last spring, Nixon had taken his case to the American people over television. This time there was no TV appearance, no explanation or rationale offered. The first news of the attacks came not from the White House but from Radio Hanoi. Nixon imposed...
...North Viet Nam's will to wage it argues against it, it is always possible that Nixon's show of force may pay off, and he will succeed in largely getting what he wants. Other Nixon gambles have paid off in the past. The Cambodian invasion, widely and correctly criticized at the time for spreading the war into yet another country, nevertheless helped speed the withdrawal of U.S. troops. And the mining of Haiphong Harbor and the resumption of the bombing in the North last spring did not bring the U.S. to the edge of World...
...President's intimate friends. For all his outer ego, his fierce driving of subordinates and his international celebrity, Kissinger has a servant's heart for Nixon when it comes to power and ideas. He has been willing to subject himself to the scorn of his academic peers (after the Cambodian invasion) and serve the President with a total loyalty that is matched inside the White House only by H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler and Kissinger's own deputy on the National Security Council, General Alexander Haig. Once, after listening to department spokesmen advocating their parochial concerns before...