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...left: he was allegedly progressive and committed--he even had long hair--but he vehemently eschewed nasty things like demonstrations and building occupations. By comforting worried old professors, he assured himself of future contacts and undoubtedly made a lot of money. During the 1970 nationwide student strike over Cambodia and Kent State, for example, this model socialist travelled to Chicago, where he wrote a couple of articles for the conservative Chicago Tribune that complimented some local colleges for not succumbing to the reigning madness...
...last four films (the only ones even he admits are worth talking about) are explicitly political in subject matter: the Nazification of Germany (Munich 1938); the mass demystification of America in the wake of Cambodia (America Revisited); a French town's response to German occupation (Sorrow and Pity); and the hellish political situation in Northern Ireland (A Sense of Loss). Many people came to see Ophuls looking for a new and bracing political message for our currently apathetic time. It seemed only logical that the man making films about such highly charged issues would have some kind of powerful political...
...Indochina, American bombing continues throughout Cambodia and Laos. Dozens of sorties are flown daily to support the troops of Cambodian dictator Lon Nol. In Laos, while we anticipate a peace supposedly at hand, American war planes last week launched over 380 massive raids...
Henry Kissinger was on the wing again, with another of those exotic itineraries: Bangkok, Vientiane, Hanoi, Hong Kong and Peking. Flying with him were U.S. hopes for an imminent cease-fire in Laos, for a gradual end to the Cambodia fighting and for new assurances that the settlement in Viet Nam will stick. The sensitive mission may also help define the still-emerging triangular relationship among long-estranged and still uneasy powers: the U.S., the U.S.S.R. and China...
...partly a courtesy call upon a U.S. ally, Thailand's Premier Thanom Kittikachorn. But it also gave Kissinger and his top traveling companion, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State William H. Sullivan (see box), a chance to discuss the entire Indochina situation with the U.S. ambassadors to Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and South Viet...