Word: protractedness
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Through the anguished years of the Viet Nam War, Cambodia and Laos have been strictly sideshows. Cambodia has almost entirely escaped the storm of steel that so far has cost the lives of an estimated 610,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops, 175,000 South Vietnamese troops, and more...
Inevitably, American and South Vietnamese troops were guilty of incursions as well, though not for protracted periods. Last December, Cambodia's United Nations Ambassador, Huot Sampoth, appealed for an end to "this war of extermination" in which, he said, more than 300 Cambodians had been killed and 700 wounded...
Resistance groups flourished almost from the start. Ho Chi Minh, who was to wage the most protracted and successful struggle against the French, was forced to leave school in 1910 for anti-French opinions. The Japanese occupation of Indochina during World War II swept away the myth that the white...
Back in Washington, the 76-member Democratic Policy Council recommended that the U.S. announce a firm timetable for withdrawing all troops within 18 months, a course that the Administration has rejected. The argument for a public timetable is that it would increase pressure on Saigon to take over the fighting...
"My guess is that the Communists would have liked to create a flurry," a high-ranking U.S. general said, "but they just weren't up to it." President Nguyen Van Thieu told TIME that the foe may now be in a transition period, de-escalating from all-out warfare...