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...more than 2,000,000 Ibs. of bombs. The columns of South Vietnamese tanks and armored cars that tore into the Parrot's Beak suggested the lumbering search-and-destroy operations that proved of questionable value in the jungles of Viet Nam. But on the dry plains of Cambodia, where long plumes of dust rose behind the speeding armor, conditions were ideal...
...issues included almost any notion that radicals could use to challenge administrations or to try to provoke a confrontation. There were demonstrations seeking more black students, protests against ROTC, fights for greater student influence over university policy. But after the President announced the dispatch of U.S. troops into Cambodia, the overriding issue became the war. Many university presidents joined the protesters, in sentiment if not in physical action. Even the relatively moderate National Student Association issued a call for the impeachment of Richard Nixon...
...Yale University in New Haven, where Cambodia was only a last-minute addition to a broad May Day protest over judicial and police treatment of Black Panthers, some 4,000 U.S. Marines and paratroopers were deployed for quick response to any violence. Contending that the Panthers and Weathermen faction of S.D.S. were moving dynamite and demolition experts into the college town, one federal official warned beforehand that there would likely be "racial violence, widespread destruction and even assassination at New Haven." An explosion did shatter glass in a Yale building, and a mild clash broke out between demonstrators and local...
...left or to the right of you doesn't mean he's a pig or a counterrevolutionary," he argued. Abbie Hoffman drew shouts of "Right on!" when he declared that "if the U.S. has lost face in Viet Nam, it is going to lose its ass in Cambodia." He could hardly be taken literally when he also vowed: "If they find Bobby, Erica and the Panthers guilty, we're going to pick up that building [the courthouse] and send it to the moon." Even Panther Miranda declared that it was not a time "to kill pigs. When...
...broadcast interview program in two years, using the occasion to reiterate his claim that he will not be a presidential candidate in 1972. He addressed a group of Boston advertising people and branded as "madness" President Nixon's decision to carry the Viet Nam War across the border into Cambodia. He also kept his promise to the Boston Pops Orchestra to narrate Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait. The occasion was not without a touch of irony. The opening lines of the narrative quote Lincoln: "Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We . . . will be remembered in spite of ourselves...