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...ebullient former chairman of the Democratic National Committee was a surprising choice for that task. Strauss, whose father-in-law founded the Texas chapter of the American Jewish Committee, had hitherto been known primarily as a highly effective back-room pol. His arm-twisting skill in negotiating a new pact that lowered tariffs between the U.S. and its major trading partners and his rapport with the President seem to have weighed more heavily with Carter than Strauss's uncertain knowledge of Middle Eastern realities. Says an Administration official: "The object was to get a guy in there who could...
...bringing the American tragedy there into a new perspective. The war that was fought so much with symbols in the American mind has now acquired an entirely new set of symbols: the boat people fleeing and drowning, former South Vietnamese soldiers in re-education camps ringed with barbed wire, Pol Pot's murderous regime in Cambodia. When the French were colonizing Indochina in the middle of the 19th century, the Vietnamese were just in the process of conquering Cambodia. Now they have invaded again, and have subordinated Laos as well, advancing that much closer to a possible Vietnamese elevation...
...come in, is petrified that he will not be nominated at all if he stays out. And up in Durham, waiting for the call to marshal the state's Democrats behind their true love, Senator Edward Kennedy, sits the fiercest of New Hampshire's liberals, a female pol with blond hair, sculpted features and the un likely name Dudley Dudley...
...Pol Pot's regime in Cambodia was truly despotic. The forcible de-population of the cities and re-organization of the population into labor camps was a grotesque caricature of "peasant socialism" and will surely not be missed by the Cambodian people. The Vietnamese have set up a regime which pledges to do away with the old regime's irrational xenophobia and atavism, and they have not been met by popular resistance. Our conclusion therefore is that history will decide the national destiny and justice of relations between Vietnam and Cambodia...
...finally being forced to recall some of its units from Cambodia. That suggested a possible Chinese success in drawing support away from the Viet Nam-backed government of Heng Samrin, which has been under in creasing pressure from insurgent forces loyal to China's client, defeated Premier Pol...