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...more business as usual," she had told the overflow crowd, speaking in support of a motion to strike in protest of the Cambodian invasion and the killings at Kent State. "All business at Harvard should be shut down: every building should be closed and every office should not function...
...visit by the battleship Missouri to Istanbul in 1946 countered mounting Soviet pressures on Turkey, for example, while in 1958 U.S. amphibious activity off Lebanon's coast bolstered a friendly government in Beirut. More recently, the rescue of the U.S. freighter Mayaguez in 1975 after its capture by Cambodian Communists demonstrated America's continuing interest in Southeast Asia. "Ships are easier to move about than are Army or land-based aircraft units," the Brookings report said. "Naval forces can remain near by but out of sight. Thus naval forces can be used more subtly to support foreign policy incentives?...
...Fragging" is a term used to describe the practice of enlisted men trying to kill overeager and/or obnoxious commanding officers. The practice increased as the war became more futile, and it was especially prevalent after the Cambodian invasion. The term derives from "fragmentation grenade...
...tensions between the Vietnamese and the Cambodians mounted, the Chinese made the mistake of trying to head off a conflict while also maintaining their sponsorship of the oppressive regime of Premier Pol Pot in Phnom-Penh. But that could not work. Observes Don Tretiak, an American China watcher: "The Chinese should have been more careful about their Cambodian commitment. Supporting a weak but obstreperous ally is very bad politics." Now Peking fears that its deteriorating relations with Viet Nam will push Hanoi further into the embrace of Moscow. Worst of all, if the Vietnamese were to rout the Cambodians...
...front last week, Vietnamese troops strengthened their hold over the Cambodian salient known, because of its shape, as the Parrot's Beak. Rolling across the border into the beak with captured American armor, artillery, air support*-and tactics-General Vo Nguyen Giap's 60,000-man force easily shattered Khmer Rouge defenders. Although Hanoi acknowledged that Cambodian forces had launched a broad counterattack into seven Vietnamese provinces, General Giap's forces were believed to be still in control of key border sectors and were securing their military victory through the formation of a provisional government composed...