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. >> some 400,000 people from vietnam, laos, cambodia came through here. it was a temporary settlement toward permanent relocation elsewhere. it closed down in 1996. the refugees who were still here were moved to a smaller village but the philippine tradition offering help of refugee goes back to the 19 30's and 40s. when it welcomed jews fleeing the nazis spanish republicans fleeing a civil war and the chinese fleeing an invading japanese army. it's a poignant return to this woman and her husband. now the danish ambassador to the philippines. they met here over 25 years ago. he was running the u.n. asylum center and she was among hundreds rescued at sea after fleeing vietnam. she still has nightmares, and she said that she sees it reflected in the images of the refugees at sea today. >> to see the hopelessness on their face. and i was thinking, oh my god this is how we were when we were on these boats. and it was terrible. >> the last refugee village still stands. a handful of people have chose ton stay. but thousands more have moved on. the near empty st

cambodia is its own country. in fact a country that always had ten was relationships with vietnam. they destabilize cambodia you really just have all hell breaking out. >> the cambodian operation will continue during the coming days. american units searching for north vietnamese troops and installations. but what they will find or how long they will be here no one can say for sure. >> the active, large scale american and north vietnamese fight in cambodia brought a cry of anger. at kent state, ohio, the protest turned into a riot with thousand of demonstrators facing national guardsmen and police. [ gunfire ] [ sirens sounding ] ♪ >> four students are killed at kent state. two students are killed at jackson state in mississippi. nixon is sort of overwhelmed. he is bewildered. nixon was very upset by the deaths, by the belief that he had caused them. and it was a low point of his presidency. >> the events of this past week have polarized not only the opposition to the war but also the opposition to the anti-war movement. >> hard hat construction workers chased and beat demonstrators

you can read minutes of meetings and memos about cambodia, laos south vietnam, or wherever, and whatformation that he needs to have. bush was familiar with all the world leaders. actually, i think bush would have benefited from going to a village in afghanistan, which we accidentally bombed, and talking to the people there. i think it would have been helpful to him and our country. those deliberations at that high level have the effect of making those realities may obscure to the people who are sitting in those rooms. it also has the effect of generating a kind of grandiosity by the people in those rooms who have a tendency to say things that are actually fairly simple, and make them sound profound. i think investor negroponte was getting -- ambassador mega party was getting at that. "the bush doctrine," i am not entirely sure what it is. i tried to look it up online. one, the military of the united states needs to be stronger than any other in the world. two, we need to retain the right to attack any country. three, we not be bound by the pressure of allies or the united nations for

. >> some 400,000 people from vietnam, laos and cambodia came through here between 1975 and 1996 fleeing war and oppressive regimes. it was a temporary settlement before permanent relocation elsewhere. not much remains of the philippines first asylum center. it closed down in 1996. the refugees that were still here then, some 1300 were moved to a smaller village. but the philippine tradition of offering refugee goes as far back as the 1930s and 40s when it welcomed jews fleeing the german nazis. spanish republicans fleeing a civil war. russians fleeing a social revolution and chinese fleeing a japanese army. it was a return for dr. fong. they met here over 25 years ago. he was running the u.n. asylum center and she was among hundreds rescued at sea after fleeing vietnam. fong still has nightmares, and she said she see it is reflected in the images of refugees at sea today. >> i thought, oh my god that's how we were. it's terrible. >> the last of the refugee village still stands. a handful of people have chosen to stay. but thousands more have moved on. the near empty streets seen as a te

you can read minutes of meetings and memos about cambodia, laos south vietnam, or wherever, and what is happening in those places is like a million miles away from what is going on in this room. one of our speakers earlier was talking about the president at the top of his game, with all the information that he needs to have. bush was familiar with all the world leaders. actually, i think bush would have benefited from going to a village in afghanistan, which we accidentally bombed, and talking to the people there. i think it would have been helpful to him and our country. those deliberations at that high level have the effect of making those realities may obscure to the people who are sitting in those rooms. it also has the effect of generating a kind of grandiosity by the people in those rooms who have a tendency to say things that are actually fairly simple, and make them sound profound. i think investor negroponte was getting -- ambassador mega party was getting at that. "the bush doctrine," i am not entirely sure what it is. i tried to look it up online. one, the military of the

they stayed in south vietnam and tried to improve it. they did not convey cambodiahe did not invade laos, they do not going to northeast thailand. question is, how do you know what the people of south vietnam did or did not support without giving us concrete examples of the tens of thousands of people of those who did vote and protested against the government? there was support there. it was not would be would call support, and they have been regional or local, but there was much more to south vietnam then you are talking about. >> let's have some final comments from the panelists. david: it seems to me that the question of legitimacy is a very important one. my impressions are, and i am interested to hear from those of you who know more than i do, but the impressions that i have been reading indicate that the level of legitimacy for the south vietnamese government certainly by the time of mr. t was extremely low indeed. but that is my strong impression. as to the 1954-1956, how the vote would have gone, a large portion would vote -- i cannot say. by the time you dr

united states army had withdrawn from vietnam and the north vietnam army started its final assault on saigon. the rouge took over in cambodia. saudi arabia king was assassinated. the red army faction and japanese red army engaged in bombings throughout europe middle east, ira and the volunteer force killed dozens in northern ireland and britain. the abu nadal flight killed 88 people. cia station chief welsh was assassinated in greece. two fbi agents were killed at pine ridge indian reservation a bombing by nationalist killed 11 people and puerto rican nationalists killed four in a bombing in downtown new york so with this dynamic threat environment going on how is it possible that the investigation began? why was it necessary, and why did you want to be a part of it? >> i think you begin by looking at the story that got an explosive headline in the "new york times" containing the list of abuses and dysfunction in the intelligence agencies a list made up by the agency itself. they told the nation we were really in trouble, and if you look at these problems that you've sited one of the reasons why we had to reform and make th