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...relationship with Kissinger by solidly supporting all the controversial policies, including the mining of Haiphong harbor and the bombing of Hanoi in the last phases of the Viet Nam War. Noticing how Haig could take the flak without blinking, Nixon sent him on half a dozen diplomatic missions to Saigon. He also promoted him over 240 senior generals to the post of Army Vice Chief of Staff. When Haldeman and John Ehrlichman were forced to resign, it was not surprising that Nixon turned to Haig to give him the loyalty, efficiency and privacy he so desperately craved...
Indeed, the council has several weighty allegations of press unfairness on its docket. Among them: charges by Graham Martin, U.S. Ambassador to Saigon, that New York Times Reporter David Shipler had inserted "numerous inaccuracies and half-truths" in a story about U.S. assistance to Saigon (TIME, March 25); a complaint by a New York lawyer that public television's Black Journal had been one-sided in supporting the construction of black housing in a white Newark neighborhood...
...April 30, 1970, in order to protect the band of traitors headed by Lon Nol and Sirik Matak which the Nixon administration had installed in Phnom Penh by a criminal coup, President Richard Nixon ordered U.S. and Saigongovernment soldiers to invade Cambodia. More than 110,000 American and Saigon soldiers with the most up-to-date means of destruction at their disposal and with the help of the U.S. Air Force penetrated into northeastern Cambodia, bringing with them death, destruction and ruin...
They reduced entire border villages to ashes, they killed civilians, the American air force and the Saigon troops completely razed the districts of Mimot and Snuol. On May 2, a first contingent of South Vietnamese mercenaries arrived in Phnom Penh to defend the Lon Nol group, which was about to be destroyed by the Cambodian people, risen in mass in response to the historic call of March 23 of Norodom Sihanouk, the legal chief of state of Cambodia and president of its United National Front...
...Beach Boys while cruising Dallas streets in a supercharged GTO." He first discovered country music at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was TIME's campus stringer. He joined our Houston bureau after his graduation in 1968, then worked in Montreal, New York City, Detroit and Saigon before moving on to the U.S. West...