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Where is the spirit of '76? During this Bicentennial of our hard-won freedom, we are searching for meaningful ways to celebrate while we stand by and watch first Cambodia, then South Viet Nam fall to an aggressor [March 31]. As the dominoes fall, will it be Thailand next, then South Korea, Nationalist China on Formosa and so on? These people have fought and are still fighting for the same basic reasons for which we took on Great Britain...
With Cambodia going down the drain, four provinces of South Viet Nam lost [March 24], Thailand turning neutralist and the Philippines re-examining its commitments, where are the great sages now who ridiculed the domino effect? Where are you now, Sevareid, Cronkite, Chancellor, Brinkley, Reasoner, Newsweek, TIME? Let's hear it for the media party line and adversary mischiefism...
...world politics. What we are seeing now is the revenge of every other party pursuing its own self-interest. All over the world there is a reassertion of the smaller powers. North Viet Nam was never stopped by detente. We have not been able to control events in Thailand or Portugal. We could not oblige Israel to make certain concessions." Hoffmann believes that the U.S. may have to give up trying to hold all the strings and accept a degree of decentralization of foreign policy...
...Leap, six miles to the northwest of Phnom-Penh, which the enemy had been using as a site for launching rockets against Pochentong Airport. As the fighting swayed back and forth, Khmer Rouge attacks on the airport lessened, and as many as 49 cargo planes flew in daily from Thailand and Saigon with tons of food, oil, medicines and arms...
...officials reported that they had scraped together $20 million to keep the airlift going for another month regardless of whether Congress approves more aid. The flights also concerned Thailand's new coalition government, which said that it was considering a ban on arms shipments from the country. The announcement was an apparent attempt by the government to win the support of strong leftist groups...