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Gritz, the son of a B-17 pilot shot down over France in 1944, is a self-appointed caretaker of those hopes. Decorated 60 times during the Viet Nam War, he once led 250 Cambodian mercenaries on a daring raid that attacked 53 Viet Cong camps in 60 days; he lost only one man. Even after he left the Army in 1979 as a lieutenant colonel, Gritz never really left Indochina. In 1981 he rounded up 21 drifters, dreamers and desperadoes, recruited a psychic, a hypnotherapist and some reporters, and began practicing quixotic Laotian expeditions at an unlikely locale...
...addition to her work as an actress. Andrews has been active in finding homes for Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees, and visited Cambodia in December. Schwam said She is also the author of two children's novels...
...lack the skills deemed essential for resettlement elsewhere, they have come to be known in official jargon as "residuals," or people with "no guarantee of movement onward." The worst of these refugee camps is NW 82, a tropical purgatory 16 miles north of Aranyaprathet, a town on the Thai-Cambodian border. United Nations officials are not allowed to have a permanent presence in the heavily guarded enclosure. TIME Bangkok Bureau Chief David DeVoss was the first foreign correspondent permitted by Thai authorities to look inside NW 82. His report...
...whole, Ehrlichman sponsored or supported domestic policies that were humane and progressive. He favored reducing defense expenditures beyond a point I considered prudent so as to free resources for social programs; several times I appealed his interventions to Nixon. Ehrlichman was shaken by student protest following the Cambodian incursions. He had three teen-age children, and their travail touched him deeply. But Nixon's favor depended on one's readiness to fall in with the paranoid cult of the tough guy. The conspiracy of the press, the hostility of the Establishment, the flatulence of the Georgetown set were...
More damning was a paragraph in which Jones described an old blind man "chanting the Ramayana, a part of Cambodia's cultural heritage, as he twanged a primitive guitar." Cockburn produced an almost identical passage from André Malraux's novel about his Cambodian travels in 1923 and 1924, La Voie Royale. Reckoned the Voice writer...