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WHEN Harvard students stormed the faculty club to protest the invasion of Cambodia in 1970, one of the members bothered by the ruckus was John T. Dunlop, who was dining with his wife Dorothy. Whatever his feelings about the military action halfway round the world, "Tiger" Dunlop was not amused by the student action on campus. Assured by a waiter that the protesters were being chased out by the club's manager, the burly Dunlop growled: "Does he need any help...
Banner Battle. To subvert any strictures on new arms shipments, the Communists have ordered that weapons and munitions plants hidden in the jungles of Cambodia and Laos be smuggled piecemeal into South Viet Nam. (For much the same reason, tons of equipment on U.S. bases have been formally donated to the South Vietnamese, then "loaned" back...
...plans for peace. Within seven days of the signing of any Viet Nam cease-fire agreement, Singapore, Thailand and other nations belonging to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (which also includes Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines) would call a meeting to which they would invite both Viet Nams, Cambodia, Laos and Burma. "We want them in the association," says Thai Deputy Foreign Minister Chartichai Choonhawan, "because we want to see work start on reconstructing the damage done...
...four gunmen took control of the embassy and hung a green and white Palestinian flag out a window. The guard and all Thai employees inside the building were promptly set free. But six Israelis, including the Ambassador to Cambodia, Shimon Avimor, were held as hostages. As 500 Thai police and troops surrounded the compound, the terrorists threw out notes listing demands, including the release by Israel of 36 Palestinian prisoners. If the demands were not met within 20 hours, the invaders threatened to blow up the embassy with everyone in it, including themselves...
When Hanoi refused to buy, Nixon ordered the bombers aloft to try to pressure the North Vietnamese. The heavy military gamble, in his view, had paid off before, when he invaded Cambodia in 1970, Laos in 1971, and mined Haiphong last May in the face of criticism and protest in the U.S. The atmosphere around the White House was even similar to last spring's, a mood of coolness and toughness only occasionally soured by the fulminations of the "doom and gloom brigade," as the Washington press corps is called. Gambling had, in fact, become part of Nixon's international...