Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Apathy. At home Nixon was getting off rather lightly. There was no spasm of protest, as occurred during the Cambodian invasion. With Congress out of session, there was little opportunity for concentrated opposition there, though there were rumblings. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield promised to push once again for antiwar legislation. "It is long since past the time to stop worrying about saving face," he said, "and concentrate on saving lives and our own sense of humanity." Ted Kennedy issued a subdued call to arms: "Without question, if the war goes on, if the current tragic stalemate continues, many Senators...
...four parties will strictly respect the Cambodian and Laotian people's "fundamental national rights as recognized by the 1954 Geneva agreements on Indochina and the 1962 Geneva agreements on Laos"?that is, their independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity. They will also respect the neutrality of Cambodia and Laos. Foreign countries will put an end to all military activities in Cambodia and Laos, and will "totally withdraw" and refrain from reintroducing arms...
Still the troops came out, but not with a whimper. Nixon applied muscle. From the secret musings came not only the orders for the Cambodian invasion but for the excursion into Laos and then the ultimate shock, the mining of Haiphong Harbor and the renewed heavy bombing of the North. They are all ingredients of the impending peace no less astonishing today than when they happened. Then there was Peking and the mind-boggling view of Nixon raising his glass to Chou Enlai, a part of the Viet Nam equation, and the scene just a few months later of Nixon...
There were other straws in the Indochinese winds too. The government of Laos began peace talks with the Communist Pathet Lao, and the Cambodian government suddenly requested that journalists refrain from using the word...
...occupied seven hamlets near Saigon at the beginning of last week; South Vietnamese forces recaptured some hamlets but only after they were pounded to rubble by U.S. bombers. The assault on Phnom-Penh was also timed to have the maximum psychological impact, TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud reported from the Cambodian capital last week. It coincided with both the Buddhist "Festival of the Dead," when Cambodians commemorate their ancestors, and the second anniversary of the Khmer Republic, which was founded seven months after the ouster of Prince Norodom Sihanouk...