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...show of strength can often frighten leaders into conforming to a more humane agenda. Richard Nixon panicked when anti-war demonstrators flooded into Washington to protest his invasion of Cambodia. The recent Million Man March proves that working and middle class resistance to today's reactionary climate can be tapped. Liberals need to flex their might in the streets. Corporations should be held accountable for using Third World slave labor. Cops like Mark Fuhrman should fear for their lives...
...first complete solar eclipse seen in Southeast Asia since 1955 and the last to come until 2070. In the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, photographers in hot-air balloons to catch the shadows of the eclipse as they passed over the Taj Mahal in the city of Agra. In Cambodia, hundreds of tourists and Cambodians were protected by 30,000 soldiers from possible Khmer Rouge attacks, as they gathered to watch the eclipse against the backdrop of the fabled temples of Angkor Wat. And in Thailand, Princess Sirindhorn, daughter of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, led tens of thousands in an observation...
...first complete solar eclipse seen in Southeast Asia since 1955 and the last to come until 2070. In the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, photographers in hot-air balloons to catch the shadows of the eclipse as they passed over the Taj Mahal in the city of Agra. In Cambodia, hundreds of tourists and Cambodians were protected by 30,000 soldiers from possible Khmer Rouge attacks, as they gathered to watch the eclipse against the backdrop of the fabled temples of Angkor Wat. And in Thailand, Princess Sirindhorn, daughter of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, led tens of thousands in an observation...
...said with only slight exaggeration that peacekeeping works only when it is not necessary -- in other words, when enemies have more or less agreed to stop fighting. In such situations, Blue Helmets can provide the final impetus toward peace and supervise established arrangements, as happened in Cyprus, Mozambique, Cambodia, the Sinai and elsewhere. But it cannot work in a cockpit like Bosnia, as U.N. officials themselves warned three years ago. Nevertheless, the Security Council, with the support of the U.S., imposed a mission that mixed peacekeeping with humanitarian aid. It ensured the present debacle by sending in totally inadequate forces...
Amid the chaos of increased violence on collegecampuses and in Cambodia, 1970 became a year ofdisillusionment and confusion for students atHarvard and across the country. They wererealizing the limits of their own powers--even enmasse, they could not force an intractableadministration...