Word: cambodias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Editorialized Paris' right-of-center Le Figaro: "U.S. influence has shrunk in all directions. It has lost Angola, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Yemen, Afghanistan, Laos, Cambodia and most recently a kingpin in Iran, guardian of the Gulfs oil... the Yankee umbrella has more and more holes in it. The free world now asks itself the question: Must it still count on Americans?" London's Daily Telegraph was no kinder: "There is a nervelessness at the center in Washington coupled with clumsiness at the extremities. Hence the alarming loss of respect...
...chief lessons from the new series of world conflicts is the extreme limit on the ability of all the great powers to determine the course of events. China, despite its pretensions of becoming a global force, met with no success in its efforts to prevent a Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia. The Soviet Union, despite its nearly one million troops on the Chinese border, was unable to prevent China's openly announced punitive expedition into Viet Nam. The U.S. lost its own direct influence in Indochina in 1975 when the remnants of the once mighty American presence there abandoned...
...National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski differed sharply. He argued that by sending Blumenthal according to schedule, the Administration was sticking to its position that the Chinese invasion is a direct result of the Soviet-encouraged Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia and that simply urging all parties to restrain themselves is the best policy. Carter agreed with Brzezinski, and Blumenthal left Washington at week...
...Minister Dmitri Ustinov assailed China's "dangerous provocation" and accused Peking of trying to "plunge the world into a war." The U.N.'s Security Council prepared to meet in urgent session, at Washington's request, to deal with the Chinese invasion as well as the earlier Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia...
China's assault on Viet Nam was expected and well advertised. Tensions had been building up ever since Hanoi's forced expulsion of ethnic Chinese last spring, Viet Nam's lightning rout of Peking's client regime in Cambodia last month, and an intensifying series of incidents on the China-Viet Nam border. Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing repeatedly and publicly telegraphed the punch during his U.S. visit this month, railing against the "hegemonistic" ambitions of the Soviet "polar bear" and against Vietnamese "aggression" in Southeast Asia. Hanoi "has to be taught a necessary lesson," he warned. In Tokyo...