Word: indochina
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...more restrained, saying, "The Cambodians are suffering horribly under their new rulers. They have suffered every day of the last six years--ever since the beginning of one of the most destructive foreign policies the United States ever pursued." He, at least, connects Cambodia's travails to the Indochina War, an embarrassing event which the Times would rather forget...
...lurid interpretation of events in Cambodia seems designed to shock readers and increase their fear of socialism. But the Times editorial version of events is based on liberal amounts of prejudice and half-truths--they even forgot to read some of their own news coverage of Cambodia. Also, the Indochina Resource Center, a U.S. group, recently released an exhaustively-documented report, The Politics of Food: Starvation and Agricultural Revolution in Cambodia, which sheds more light on events in that country...
...opinion would likewise accept such a result. Unlike Vietnam, where "the American people instinctively felt that the national interest was not at stake" (Miles Ignotus), the national gain here would be clear. A surgically-neat military operation would avoid the quagmire syndrome which bogged down the US debacle in Indochina. Thus the world will be saved from economic and political chaos, and US hegemony will be re-established, dissolving once and for all the bitter aftertaste of the defeat in Vietnam...
...Democratic Presidential candidate spoke at New England Life Hall in Boston, after just having returned from a three-week fact-finding mission to India, Pakistan and Indochina...
...life in China's political wars. The U.S. has always been fascinated by China, whether it was seen as an ally, a fanatical adversary or, as now, a somewhat remote power that has entered into some limited foreign policy partnership with the U.S. In an increasingly difficult world?Indochina lost, Russian détente severely strained, Southern Europe threatened by Communism, and murky battles looming with the Third World?the U.S. basically wants to know whether, in the long run, China will be friend or foe. The man who will shape a large part of the answer is Teng...