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...PACIFIST as far back as the Korean War, Mendelsohn has liberally injected his view of social responsibilities into his other activities. In 1968, he visited Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand with the American Friends Service Committee, meeting with representatives of the NLF and North Vietnam. The three week study of Indochina's political structure and the effects of the war was extended unexpectedly when Mendelsohn's party was trapped in Saigon for ten days by the Tet offensive. "We saw the war a lot closer than we had planned," Mendelsohn recalls now. Upon his return, Mendelsohn embarked on his long, sometimes...
...House Judiciary Committee, which will hold confirmation hearings on the nomination of Gerald R. Ford for vice president, Drinan said that he had 40 questions he wanted to ask Ford. Foremost of these, he continued, was whether or not Ford was aware of the 1970 secret bombing in Cambodia...
DURING THE LONG YEARS of the Indochina War, Thailand served as a giant aircraft carrier for the United States military, providing six bases where American bombers refueled before once again bombing Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Thailand was ruled by a rightist military dictatorship--headed by Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn--that used American aid to bulwark their own positions atop Thai society...
...first time in over a decade, American warplanes are not killing people. An estimated one-third of Cambodia's 12 million people were made refugees by the American bombing. Yet the bombing is over, and most of them can go home now--home to rebuild, to mourn for dead friends and care for crippled cousins, to try to live again...
Most Cambodian farmers have never heard of Elliot Richardson. Their world view most likely extends no farther than the particular region of Cambodia in which they live. The occasional trip to Phnom Penh to market rice is like entering a different universe, beyond the pale of comprehension. Cambodians know nothing of the intricacies of American politics--their only contact with this country occurs when its bombers whine overhead...