Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much glamour in our outfit -just a lot of hard work." Well, not quite. There are only 2,600 Green Berets in Viet Nam, but they exercise control over a force of 50,000 Vietnamese irregulars in 80-odd bases, mostly tiny outposts along the Laotian and Cambodian borders. They run the most economic and perhaps the most unusual operation in the war, carried out on an annual budget of just over $100 million and a seemingly limitless supply of gall and resourcefulness...
...planned a second voyage with medical supplies last fall, but when Ho Cho Minh protested that such a voyage would be too dangerous, Phoenix headed for South Vietnam on its humanitarian mission. After the incidents with the South Vietnamese government and a layover just off Cambodia (to avoid provoking Cambodian-American relation), Ho sent word to the crew to come to Haiphong during the Tet truce at the end of January...
...even more dramatic decision not to seek a second term?the U.S. officially proposed 15 sites* for talks, unofficially offered Hanoi a considerably longer shopping list. Hanoi rejected them all, steadfastly insisted that the U.S. choose between two venues that would be physically and psychologically unsuitable?the Cambodian capital of Pnompenh, where neither Washington nor its Saigon ally has an embassy, and Warsaw, capital of a major North Vietnamese ally and armorer...
...initial agenda to the question of a full cessation of U.S. attacks. The entire exchange took just 68 hours. Washington, through embassy channels in Laos, immediately proposed Geneva as the meeting place. North Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh, in a Hanoi interview with CBS, suggested Pnompenh, the Cambodian capital, as the site...
Russian opposition to re-convening the Conference cancels any hope of making the ICC more effective. In announcing the ICC decision to resume border investigation, the Indians rightly refused to act on the joint Cambodian-American suggestion that the ICC be enlarged and strengthened. Since the Accords guarantee the Commission all "modern means of transport" the ICC might have accepted the helicopters the U.S. offered. But as far as increasing the numbers or operating methods of ICC teams is concerned, any final decision must come from Geneva...