Word: lon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Cambodia's new leaders were apparently driven by a xenophobic determination to rid the country of foreign influence, not just the taint of "Americans and other imperialist lackeys" but also the influence of even the Chinese and North Vietnamese. Moscow, which had maintained diplomatic relations with the former Lon Nol government almost to the end, was rejected utterly: the second floor of the Soviet embassy was strafed with machine-gunfire, and the seven Russian diplomats there ordered to go to the French embassy compound to be evacuated with the other foreigners. From that precarious vantage point, they saw hundreds...
...Though it also spoke of rebuilding the country's industry, the broadcast left little doubt that the government's chief aim would be to restore farm production so that Cambodia might be "completely independent of all foreigners." Meanwhile, the ousted President of the fallen Cambodian government, Marshal Lon Nol, was quietly adjusting to a new life with his family in a $103,000 bungalow in suburban Honolulu. At Camp Pendleton, Calif., the man who replaced him briefly as head of state, Saukham Khoy, 60, disclosed that Lon Nol had been paid $1 million by his own government...
...refugees should be allowed into the United States because many Americans--too many--bear more responsibility for war crimes in Indochina than even the most corrupt members of the Thieu and Lon Nol regimes. If justice is being sought for Vietnam war criminals, then the place to start is not with middle-echelon refugees, but with American policy-makers like Nixon and Kissinger, the men who engineered the Christmas bombing of Hanoi in 1972. And if the war has not taught us to distinguish policy-makers from those who carry out their plans, we should not screen out members...
...they would not be confounded by red tape. The Attorney General has used his "parole power" to ensure entry into the country of all Vietnamese who run a "high risk" of retaliation at the hands of the Communists. A similar provision has already enabled Cambodia's former President Lon Nol to settle in a comfortable suburb of Honolulu, where last week he was going through the process of obtaining a driver's license and a U.S. Social Security number...
...that he may draw crowds of tourists and "disruptive curiosity seekers." According to his real estate agent, the exiled President chose the small community merely because he wants his children to "mix with the kids and become regular Americans." He seems to mean it. At week's end Lon Nol borrowed a neighbor's ladder and put new netting on the driveway basketball hoop that comes with the house...