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...alliance was imposed from the White House: Nixon's aggressive television speech announcing the invasion of Cambodia, coupled with the killings at Kent State, sparked resistance at Harvard and at hundreds of other campuses...
Vietnam is not free from war, and Nixon's criminal bombing may resume over Cambodia. Yet even to a skeptic, the overall situation in Indochina seems more peaceful today than it has been since America's original escalation in the early sixties. The relentless aerial bombardment of Laos and of both sections of Vietnam for the past decade, highlighted in a perverse way by the savage terror bombing last Christmas, has ended--perhaps for good...
Although the bombing in Cambodia was just as severe, it did not yet have the same immediate impact. Most people know little about the embattled country. Reporting from Cambodia is scanty and shoddy, the outlines of the political dispute there are hazy, and the revolutionary Khmer Rough, to which many Harvard students would be attracted, is still a shadowy and elusive force...
Critics of the military could easily point to the cover-up of U.S. bombing in Cambodia--a possibly illegal act which required the active cooperation of hundreds of enlisted men and dozens of officers--as one piece of evidence among many calling the independent thinking of military leaders into severe question...
...recent years, Halberstam has been supplanted as the nation's premier investigative reporter by Seymour Hersh, who revealed in staccato succession the MyLai massacre, illegal air strikes against North Vietnam in 1971, and, most recently, the one and one-half year long secret bombing of Cambodia...