Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richard Nixon's own top advisers described Lam Son-and the parallel thrust by 20,000 ARVN troops into Cambodia-mainly as an opportunity to reap some short-term gains. One important objective was to shore up the embattled regime in Cambodia by taking further pressure off the Cambodian army to the south. Another was to blunt Communist capability to wage offensives in South Viet Nam, particularly any attack that might upset two approaching presidential elections: Nguyen Van Thieu's in October and Richard Nixon's in November...
...jungle suit, a baseball cap with three stars and a baton that, he joked, was always on hand "to spank the Viet Cong." He relished the spotlight and was candid enough to admit it. "I like being a hero," he said with disarming frankness during last year's Cambodian invasion. Less well known was the fact that the "Patton of Parrot's Beak," as he came to be nicknamed, was also a skillful administrator who had commanded three of South Viet Nam's four military districts and at times was considered to head the fourth. He backed...
Life with the President has its rough moments too. When Nixon took his famous early-morning excursion to the Lincoln Memorial to talk to demonstrators at the time of the Cambodian invasion, Manolo was rousted out of bed to accompany him. When a fire Manolo started in the living-room fireplace at San Clemente accidentally burned out of control, damaging a wall and sending the President fleeing in his pajamas to an adjoining cottage, angry White House aides approached him for an explanation. Manolo had a humorous answer: "I promise not to smoke pot in the basement any more...
Candy Habits. Outside Kehrli & Co., few career men-and even fewer field-grade officers (major and above)-ever develop a sustained taste for Pleiku Pink, Bleu de Hué, Cambodian-made Park Lane No. 2s, and the myriad other varieties of marijuana that have become freely available in South Viet Nam. But many other military men do. "Nobody raises an eyebrow now if someone suggests that out in the field, where the arm of military law is relatively relaxed, 90% of all noncareer G.I.s smoke grass," reports TIME Correspondent James Willwerth. "It is as common as chewing gum here...
From the HAC preliminary report: "Approximately one-fifth of South Vietnam's merchantable hardwood forests have been sprayed, including many of the oldest and most valuable stands. Aerial inspection of forests in a wide are north of Saigon extending from the Cambodian frontier in the west to the South China Sea on the east showed more than half of the forest to be very severely damaged. Over large areas, most of the trees appeared dead and bamboo had spread over the ground. A danger in this is that the invading bamboo species may be essentially worthless and very expensive...