Word: cambodias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28 joined with the then-president of MIT to send a telegram to the nine councilors stating, "Now, as never before, we need stability and continuity in the administrative branch of the city government." (Spring 1970 was the season of the U.S. invasion of Cambodia--the season that a Crimson headline read, "Rioting devastates Harvard Square; Windows smashed, scores injured...
When the Peking-based ambassador of a Middle Eastern country received word that he would be allowed to visit Cambodia, he was delighted. After all, he could observe firsthand a new socialist society in the making. He could take his family on sightseeing excursions to the temple ruins of Angkor Wat. But the ambassador had not reckoned with the xenophobia of the fanatical rulers of Democratic Kampuchea, as Cambodia is called...
Although the Kampuchea government has diplomatic relations with 86 states, only eleven foreign embassies have been allowed to open. With the possible exception of the Chinese, who have close ties with Cambodia's rulers, all foreign diplomats are subject to this strange honorable house arrest. They are not allowed to go more than 200 yards or so from their compounds. Because the embassies are not permitted autos, an envoy who wants to make a call or shop at a recently opened "diplomatic store" must request a car from the Foreign Ministry. Predictably, there is little social life. Summed...
Henry Kissinger is the man responsible for the scorched earth policy that left large portions of Vietnam uninhabitable-portions still unfit as places to live. Kissinger widened the Vietnam war into Laos and Cambodia. Kissinger headed the destablization effort that toppled the freely elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile. And Kissinger lied about all these crimes, not just to the press, but to Congress and the American people as well...
...that is enough. The author is, after all, not a master spy but a master spy novelist. His success at simulation comes as much from research as from instinct. For The Honourable Schoolboy, for example, Cornwell made five trips to Southeast Asia. Pinned down by automatic weapons fire in Cambodia, he dived under a car and coolly noted his impressions on file cards...