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...knowing Reed's support for Lenin. Unfortunately the biases of some modern historians are not as well known as those of Reed. Wouldn't people read William Shawcross' book, Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia--and especially the section where he places the ultimate responsibility for the Cambodian tragedy directly upon the United States--more closely if they knew that he had stated, on the record, that he didn't think a leftist movement could be capable of comitting such atrocities...

Author: By David Lawrence, | Title: A Remedy for Guilt | 1/9/1981 | See Source »

Prompting massive national protests--including those at Jackson State and Kent State, where students died--the U.S. bombing and invasion of Cambodia in 1970 will never rank as a popular event in American history. Those leftover sentiments--right or wrong--have shaped the analysis of recent Cambodian history--especially regarding the brutality of Pol Pot--and prevented reasonable assessment. Most efforts to discuss the issues generally reduce to a guilty hysteria which places the blame for all atrocities upon the United States. Guilt may be a justifiable response to the Cambodian invasion but to label it a definitive history...

Author: By David Lawrence, | Title: A Remedy for Guilt | 1/9/1981 | See Source »

Eberstadt is convinced the United States is not directly at fault for the creation of the Khmer Rouge, but Gooi says the U.S. played a "large role" in demoralizing the Cambodian people and consequently in causing the radical takeover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Visitors to Cambodia Unveil Misconceptions | 12/17/1980 | See Source »

Eberstadt, a visiting fellow at the Center for Population Studies, recently returned from a month-and-a-half visit to Thailand and Cambodia. He and his interpreter, Kim Gooi, a Malaysian journalist for a Thai English-speaking daily, spent most of September and October on the Thai-Cambodian border, making illegal border crossings into Cambodia whenever they could...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Visitors to Cambodia Unveil Misconceptions | 12/17/1980 | See Source »

Eberstadt and Good developed a close friendship during the past few months although they disagree on some questions concerning the Cambodian situation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Visitors to Cambodia Unveil Misconceptions | 12/17/1980 | See Source »

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