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...cease-fire throughout Viet Nam, but not simultaneously in Cambodia or Laos, will begin Jan. 27, with all military units remaining in place. Any disputes over control of territory are to be resolved by the two-party joint military commission from the South Viet Nam and Viet Cong combatants. All U.S. troops are to be withdrawn within 60 days, and all U.S. military bases in South Viet Nam are to be dismantled. There can be no re-entry of military forces into South Viet Nam, and no increase in military equipment...
...been a long four years, both for the peace movement and the Administration. The antiwar movement had grown through the Moratorium to what appeared to be a peak during the Cambodia invasion. Then it seemed to die slowly away...
Another friend of mine was on the 1970 drive into Cambodia. His company ran into elements of the North Vietnamese Army holed up in a Cambodian village, and they called in massive air strikes. As American fighter-bombers screamed in at tree-top level. North Vietnamese soldiers stood calmly in the center of the village, firing rifles at the planes. People like this could never be stopped by mere technology...
...NIXON ADMINISTRATION did nothing to alleviate the seriousness of the Indochina war in the first years. After the 1970 invasion of Cambodia. The Crimson covered the activities of the Harvard people who went to Washington to lobby, for peace. Michael E. Kinsley '72, would win a Dana Reed, Prize and national reprinting for his article on the Harvard Faculty who went to the Capital to confront their old colleague, Henry Kissinger. The Spring brought riots as well, spinoffs from large scale antiwar demonstrations in Boston which caused damage of varying degrees to Harvard Square...
...account, "reading Kant, Plato, Mao, Marx and Nietzsche until 3 a.m. every night." On May 6, 1970, inspired partly by her readings, she joined some 1,500 other students in a sit-in at the university's R.O.T.C. building to protest the U.S. invasion of Cambodia and the shootings of students on two U.S. campuses. Arrested for criminal trespass on state-supported property-a misdemeanor-she was urged to plead guilty. "I thought about it from all angles," she says, "and I decided to refuse. I suppose that can be seen as Kantian: if copping a plea is universalized...