Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enemy-yet still promises withdrawal. Once again he fell into ambiguity. His plan, Nixon said, was "to end American involvement just as soon as the South Vietnamese have developed the capacity to defend their country against Communist aggression." Then he cited the damage inflicted on the Communists in the Cambodian incursion and claimed to have hurt the enemy even more in the Laos operation. That led Nixon to conclude without qualification that "Vietnamization has succeeded," a statement reminiscent of Republican Senator George Aiken's wry advice five years ago: that the U.S. unilaterally declare victory and leave. Why, then...
...earlier had condemned their father to death in absentia. At the end of each day's session, scores of the curious spectators who filled the drab, stifling courtroom would nervously make their way to the two defendants, many prayerfully clasping their hands before their faces in the traditional Cambodian gesture of respect...
...Cambodian attorney said the trial was one more effort on the part of the Lon Nol regime "to get at Sihanouk [in exile in Peking] by getting at his children." All things considered, however, the outcome was not so tragic as it might have been. The military jury freed the princess and nine of the other defendants but sentenced her brother to five years at hard labor. Still to be tried is another Sihanouk son, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, who is charged with espionage...
...Cambodian troops retreated for ten miles up Highway 4 under North Vietnamese attack. The highway is the only route connecting the deep water port of Kompong Som to Phnom Penh...
...instances in which a Faculty group has publicly broached the issue of the war with Kissinger. Aside from one White House meeting last May at whicha group of critical senior Faculty members held an "on-the-record" meeting with him to express their dismay at the Cambodian invasion, other meetings and contacts have been mostly individual and always private...