Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government understands the situation and does not want a great war. It wants political and internal results without war and with the help of Vietnam forces and Cuban forces. The SALT talks are essential. The talks are better than war. They deal with very essential things, but we must take care of arms control problems and other questions in these talks. I think the U.S. wants effective results in a short time and that is dangerous in some ways. The U.S. and the USSR must also discuss Chinese-American relations...
...Moscow, the Communist party newspaper Pravda said events in Cambodia marked "a victory over the reactionary dictatorial regime of Peking puppets." The Soviets recently signed a friendship and cooperation treaty with Vietnam...
Reports said 10 battalions of "Khmer Krom"--Cambodians who have resided in southern Vietnam--had recently been moved into Cambodia and might serve as occupation troops in an effort to present the war as strictly a Cambodian affair...
...Stop the Rain? Despite the nonsensical, Creedence Clearwater-derived (how do you say it? Hoool?) title, this is arguably the finest movie of the year, with barely a nod to the sentimental hokum that passes for sensitivity these days. Adapted from Robert Stone's award-winning novel about bringing Vietnam home--and with it, incidentally, two kilos of heroin. The film takes off and never lets up, sometimes reaching the point of nausea. Describing an Army campaign to murder elephants suspected of being NLF symps from helicopters, Michael Moriarty as John Converse says, "In a world where flying men hunt...
...Vietnam's violation of Cambodian territory rights raises the danger of a wider war, U.S. State Department spokesman Hodding Carter III said yesterday in Washington...