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ARGUMENTS for screening and rejecting refugees from Indochina who committed atrocities during the war conveniently isolate the refugees from the context of American involvement in Vietnam and Cambodia, and ignore America's responsibility to all of the people it has affected in the course of the war. To refuse to recognize that the U.S. is responsible for all those who fled their homes and who fled Indochina--whether they were high government officials and U.S. employees afraid of "blood-baths," or peasants afraid of the last days of battle or perhaps even more U.S. bombs--is to deny the dominant...
NONE OF THIS is new. It was the United States that supported a succession of repressive regimes in Cambodia and Vietnam. It was the United States that dropped more than 7.5 million tons of bombs throughout Indochina; the United States can hardly determine justly who among the refugees of Indochina are good enough to become its citizens...
...last Wednesday, the P.R.G. cut off all communication with the non-Communist world except, sporadically, via the Japanese embassy. By week's end the victors' handling of the Western press was looking relatively professional. Unlike the unpredictable and still rather unsophisticated Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, the well-organized, news-conscious P.R.G. quickly established...
Died. Queen Mother Sisowath Kossamak of Cambodia, 73, mother of Prince Norodom Sihanouk; of apparent heart disease; in Peking. The statuesque, domineering Kossamak was her loyal son's chief adviser, beginning in 1941, when the 19-year-old prince ascended the throne. For a decade after the death of her husband King Norodom Suramarit in 1960, Kossamak reigned as Cambodia's "Supreme Guardian" while her son acted as chief of state. Following the 1970 coup that ousted Sihanouk and abolished the monarchy, Kossamak, her health failing, was held under virtual house arrest for three years before being allowed...
...destroyed the myth that binds America together . . . the myth that somewhere in American life there is at least one man who stands for law, the President." Yet he overpraises Nixon's non-Watergate presidential actions at home and abroad, even to the bombing of Hanoi and the Cambodia "incursion." White is also dealing in vapors when he contends that the press turned wrathfully upon Nixon because its "chief public enemy," Spiro Agnew, "had been spared the shame and public guillotine of impeachment...