Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hiqh-Level Dismay. At the same time, the Communists have renewed their pressure on Cambodia. Three crack NVA regiments last week tangled with elite Cambodian troops for control of the Vihear Suor marshes on the east bank of the Mekong, which are the key to the eastern defenses of Phnom-Penh. In the Cambodian capital, a mere dozen miles away, residents could hear the fighting. While the Communists appear to have no interest in toppling Phnom-Penh, they want.control of the marshes to increase their flexibility in responding to potential ARVN attacks...
School was in session during the Cambodian invasion. As well as during the "protective encirclement" of Laos...
...government; when the crunch comes it allows for vision from below. At least that is what the Carswell rejection would have signified had it occurred in the fifties or even most ways into the sixties. But Carswell was nominated on February 19, 1970, only several weeks before the Cambodian incursion. Richard Harris's Decision documents the Carswell debate. It is not an historical drama, not a Profile in Courage, but a reportorial thriller of seventy-nine days in the winter and spring of '70. It is set in the same Senate with many of the same Senators who are presently...
HARRIS FEELS that the Carswell affair had real bearing on the Cambodian incursion. That Nixon's peevishness mounted sorely as a result of the Haynesworth and Carswell rejections and that the incursion was his way of showing the Senate and the nation "who's boss" are unspoken conclusions. One Republican Senator admitted that without the Senate's renewed confidence in its own powers it would never have tried to fight the invasion as much...
...sense from a military point of view. In fact, each of the major reasons which the Administration cited as provoking the invasion was a greater falsehood than the next. Nixon claimed in his speech that South Vietnam was threatened by the sudden appearance of the North Vietnamese on its Cambodian flank; yet subsequent reports have shown that the North Vietnamese had in fact been drifting westward and waiting cautiously to see what action the rightist military junta of Lon Nol-who had overthrown neutralist Prince Norodom Sihanouk the month before-would take against them. And a major ex post facto...