Word: indochinas
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Geneva authorities spend a good deal of their $1 billion annual budget in supporting all the talk. During the 1954 conference on the French withdrawal from Indochina, when no hotel wanted to house the Soviet delegation, the city actually bought the lakeside Metropole Hotel to accommodate it. Some of the newer hotels have become conference sites on their own. The Intercontinental, a sort of nouveau Kuwait-style palace where Secre
...while to the ongoing concerns of the day. But for the people of Cambodia, the nightmare is never-ending. First there was the murderous U.S. "sideshow" to the Vietnam War that took the form of B-52 raids on innocent civilians in the early 1970s. When the U.S. left Indochina in 1975, the Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot took over and instituted a bloodbath in the name of one of the most insane ideologies to come to the face of the earth. And their bloody rule gave way in 1978 to that of the Vietnamese, who are determined to fight...
...larger historical upheaval. In one excellent scene, Schanberg tries to question an American official in a warehouse filled with Coca-Cola. Suddenly a mortar barrage blasts the warehouse of cans into gooey scrap, providing the answers Schanberg needed and a symbol of the tenuousness of the Western presence in Indochina...
...meet his opponent head-on at home, Nixon has waged his campaign at the negotiating table through the machinations of Henry Kissinger. Promises of an imminent peace while the details of a settlement remain uncertain is an obvious attempt to obscure the four years of death and destruction in Indochina while Nixon has been Commander-in-Chief...
Where were the critics when religious leaders and their congregations gathered together for civil rights protests in the '60s and when they spoke out against America's war effort in Indochina or called for a nuclear freeze or campaigned for Jesse Jackson? It is not the participation of the churches in social and political issues that sends up howls but, rather, the choice of more conservative policies...