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...since he had painted a fairly glowing picture of the KhmerRouge as a nationalist, humane group fighting for its country's independence. It all seemed to fit together perfectly--the United States had been destroying Cambodia for five years for little apparent reason other than the support of an unpopular government that was now being over-thrown by one well aware of its national identity and interested in establishing freedom for its people. The stories from American-occupied Phnom Penh were horrible ones, full of corrupt war profiteers, and the Khmer Rouge always seemed simple, proud, dignified...
...sure as hell hope that the Central Intelligence Agency is a "badly shaken organization." If its "potential to serve the nation" involves illegally opening U.S. mail, spying on college campuses, infiltrating unpopular political groups, aiding and abetting the break-in of a psychiatrist's office, preventing the publication of a book for security reasons, murdering foreign leaders, and having its director lie to the Congress and the American public, then may the CIA forever continue to operate "below its potential...
...situation worsens, Portugal seems unable to control events. Lisbon sent 2,000 reinforcements last month to its 24,000-man force in Angola, but has little desire to risk more lives in an unpopular war. Meanwhile, Portugal is regularly attacked by all sides...
...prime political battle in Washington to which Ford returns is the stalemate between White House and Congress over energy. Each party knows that whatever is done to reduce energy consumption will be highly unpopular, and each is maneuvering to force the other to take the heat. The House last week rejected a Ford plan to lift price controls on domestic oil gradually over 39 months. Congress voted instead to extend controls for six months-a bill that Ford, in turn, has vowed to veto. If he does and is sustained, the controls will expire on Aug. 31 and gas prices...
...international opprobrium that followed their 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, the major foreign policy crisis of Brezhnev's tenure. It is not often today that Moscow's diplomats have thrown in their faces the challenge, "What about Czechoslovakia?" Somehow, the long, vain American attempt to prop up an unpopular government in Saigon made much of the world forget the swift Soviet crushing of a popular government in Prague. One by one in the Brezhnev years, Soviet-aided North Viet Nam, East Germany and Cuba have gained international acceptance. True, Moscow was a loser in Chile, but the Kremlin...