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Russia which Shawcross elaborately detalis. as a whole.
forced to abandon their STEVE POTTER Kissinger, Nicon and the Destruction of Cambodiu STARTLING revelations abound in this book, which deals with the events which led to the current crisis in Cambodia and pins the responsibility fairly and squarely on the Lalted States and particularly on Kissinger and Nixon.
William Shaweross, a journalist, says: "Cambodia was not a mistake: it was u crime.' The evidence is overwhelming. Virtaully Nison's first foreign policy initiative after his inanguration was to order the secret bombing oi But it was not until four years later in 1973 — when revelations were gouring out of Washingion in the wake of Watergate - that the Senate leurned of the unanthorised extension of the war into a neutral country, the effects of It was on the ruins of this extension of the war that the Khmer Rouge destroyed ull the bases of the social and economic power of the ruling class, and through barbaric methods akin to that of Stalin collectivised ugriculture to attempt the reconstruction of their wrecked country.
The fute of the smull bureaucratic élite of the Angkar was finully sealed by die Vietnamese invasion, which co-operaded with a dissident faction of the Khmer Rouge to install the goverament of Heng Samrin This Invasion was a step by the Vietnamese to establish by military power In enforced alliance between Vietnam, Laos und Cambodia. It did not advance the cause of the Cambodian people nor of the Indochinese revolution The imperialists were dealt powerful blows by thut revolution. They were Shuwcross has documented to such chilling effect. It is a shame that his pessimistic conclusions should accord with the current ideological campaign accompanying 'the Chinese option" so faxoored in State Department circles rollbuck and containment' strutesy. which Nothing that Lakacs wrote could