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...back again and then again to the death tolls, the waste, the askew priorities that favor death to life. "Let us make this election a referendum on the Viet Nam War." he said. "If Richard Nixon understands nothing else, he understands politics-he understands how to count votes." The Cambodian venture and Kent State came along and played right into his strategy, falling in line so neatly that a Faust might have bargained his soul for them. As the campaign hit the homestretch and the kids flocked to Brown's camp, out ringing doorbells, mailing flyers, answering phones-they...
...Nixon, to be sure, maintained last week that the five-week-old allied drive into the Communist sanctuaries has been "the most successful operation of this long and difficult war." On the home front, he partly succeeded in reassuring his audience and lowering the decibels of protest against the Cambodian foray. Nevertheless, throughout Cambodia the fighting was intensifying and the list of fighters was still growing...
...case, the U. S. Army found very few NLF soldiers in Parrot's Beak. As they passed through the densely populated rice-producing area-if we can believe the American papers-they razed village after village, killing only peasants. Maybe Nixon thinks that the Red Khmers and the Cambodian resistance is not yet as strong as the Laotians and the Vietnamese, and that his policy of intimidation-by-genocide may work there. In any case, it is clear that the attacks in Cambodia were directed against the rural opposition to the Lon Nol government...
...Cambodian invasion- and the speech with which President Nixon announced it- struck raw nerves among Harvard students. "If I feel like kicking in the television tube." said a conservative Lowell House economist, "you can imagine what those guys in NAC are feeling like doing." Four days later, a mass meeting of 2700 Harvard students, Faculty, employees and assorted Greater Boston radicals was in the process of voting for a strike at the University. As the meeting- held in Sanders Theatre. Memorial Hall, and Lowell Lec, and linked by a halting PA system- wound on its way, couriers scurried back...
This collapse of the radical strike aided early organization of another center of political action. Within hours after the Cambodian invasion, the moderate left was getting busy. Anti-war students and Faculty met in small caucuses around the University, and began planning lobbying trips to Washington, summer canvassing against the war, and support for anti-war candidates in the fall. Organizers of the as-yet-unnamed effort wryly admitted that it seemed like a throw-back to political action of earlier years. "Maybe we could call it Indochina Summer," mused Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science, recalling...