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Among those who feel that the commission is bound to fail is Cambodia's exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk, whose record in predicting events in Indochina has been remarkably accurate. Answering questions cabled by TIME's Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter, Sihanouk said: "I wish I were wrong for the sake of the Vietnamese people, but I believe South Viet Nam will eventually be divided in two-that is, one South Viet Nam satellite of the U.S., and another South Viet Nam run by the Viet Cong-for a while at least. One day a violent confrontation between...
...LAOS & CAMBODIA...
Returning American soldiers tell a different story, one that can perhaps enable us to understand better the people who have resisted American bombs for so long and with so much success. One infantryman I know was on the 1970 drive into Cambodia. His company ran into a unit of the North Vietnamese army holed up in a Cambodian village, and the American commander called in massive air strikes. As wave after wave of fighter-bombers screamed in at tree-top level, the Americans, waiting a half-mile down the road, dove for cover. The Vietnamese, however, stood calmly...
...fall of 1970, Harvard didn't provide many solutions itself. The Faculty decided it had been duped by students during the Cambodia strike; departments began to renege on credit given the previous spring. The activist leaders of 1969 and 1970 were gone, either by graduation or forced leaves of absence. And there we were, the Class of 1973, growing older and trying to piece together the experience of the year past. We had seen a student movement racing ahead at an ever-accelerating pace, racing beyond what was possible in its own time, perhaps, seeking impossibly humane ends. Then...
...bafflement that fall, we were unable to pass on the energy that had been instilled in us during our first year at Harvard. Harvard students began taking leaves of absence in droves. Those who left didn't miss much: the renewed bombing of Cambodia on the biggest football Saturday of the fall, an invasion of Laos in February, and the final insult--Mayday in Washington. It was a time when a Harvard senior could write: "...nobody talks about the war much, because it's depressing and boring and well, the war was last year. Or the year before...