Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon's own commitment to his policy, and the staying power of the South Vietnamese. Four weeks ago, that testing point arrived with brutal bluntness when a carefully orchestrated force of North Vietnamese soldiers, well backed by tanks, artillery, antiaircraft guns and supplies, burst across the DMZ and the Cambodian border into South Viet Nam. There had been nothing like it in the war, not even the Tet offensive...
...week's end Communist forces were only about 40 miles from the capital, although on a different front. About 75 miles southwest of An Loc, North Vietnamese surrounded the Cambodian town of Svay Rieng, astride Highway 1, which links Phnom Penh to the South Vietnamese capital. The move could be a diversion, or an effort to open a new infiltration route into South Viet Nam -or a bid to mousetrap the South Vietnamese into another...
...magazine can cite such warnings as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time ten years ago. But Shawn agrees that both the urgency and frequency of political pieces have increased sharply. In his view, the turning point was the 1970 Cambodian invasion. Richard Goodwin, once a Kennedy speechwriter, wrote a denunciation of Nixon's "usurpation" of power; Shawn used it as an editorial. After that "Notes and Comment," once the fluffy lead-in to each issue, frequently became the magazine's most somber instrument...
Sprecher called the action "a victory." "In 1970 during the Cambodian intervention, we called for no business as usual. Today we have achieved that objective with Gulf," he said...
...since the Cambodian invasion has the Nixon government's aggression in Asia so urgently demanded protest from the American people. The antiwar feeling that coalesced into a national student strike two years ago delivered an ultimatum to the Nixon Administration: You cannot expand the war in Asia without risking massive disruptions at home. This ultimatum was instrumental in foreign the American invading force to withdraw and in precluding the use of American ground troops in Laos...