he was expecting a b-52 strike like the last time north vietnam had invaded south vietnam. it never came. so gradually he picked up speed, and he picked up speed. and the north vietnamese army, 150,000 men -- more than 150,000 men -- sluiced through south vietnam like there was, like the mississippi right now is sluicing through the gates that it's overrunning. provinces, cities fell, denang became a swollen, seething cauldron of deserters, retreaters. as the south vietnamese soldiers retreated, they raped and they looted, and civilians, we had so scared about what the godless communists were going to do to us, denang just became this swollen city. finally we decided, we have to have a plan, we have to get people out of here. we tried an evac, a fixed-wig and hell -- wing and helicopter. our allies thought we were cutting and running, which we were, and started firing on the american aircraft coming in. the msg unit, a small unit in denang, almost got into several fire fights with their ostensible allies until they were finally snuck out in the back of a garbage truck. final

combat troops and responding to phantom provocations with north vietnam with increased force, while misleadinghe american congress and public. eldersburg was one of a team of foreign policy analysts who wrote the report, which also concluded that the war was probably unwinnable. it was the attempted cover-up that made things worse, as it so often has been. president nixon has -- tried and failed to stop the "new york times" from publishing the pentagon papers. his willingness to use the legal means to do so helped put him on the path to watergate, which destroyed his presidency. >> looking back, we were doing the right thing. i did act well. >> but as all 7000 pages of the pentagon papers were released from any surprise revelations a look and like to -- look unlikely. daniel says he picked out the best it's one he originally linked them. >> -- he picked out the best parts when he originally leak to them. >> it was the wiki-leaks of 40 years ago, only bigger. the man who leaked to them says anyone in a similar position today should do so, only sooner, before the bombs start falling. >> you have

back then there were traitors in cambodia linked with elements in north vietnam trying to tackle our government. i strived to investigate those traitors and took actions to partially to sever their network. i understand that there were citizens who starved to death or died due to illness. i clearly state that we, the government, never intended to kill civilians, but it could have been wrong to have failed to check our subordinates duties to let them act at their own discretion and we didn't have enough opportunities to see for ourselves how ordinary people were living. >> listening to the interview, he sounds like he's denying any responsibility for the atrocities. did nuan chea say he was not involved in the deaths of the citizens from forced labors? >> if that's true, that's going to be examined at the tribunal, but nuan chea said the people point out that he was the leader of the government blamed for massacres. they say that means he bears his share of responsibility for what happened and that by itself should be pursued at the trial. in july last year, the tribunal handed down a

viet nam, eisenhower -- set up south and north vietnam, eisenhower was determined tont a communist takeover of the south. he was thinking in terms of the domino theory. cambodia, the philippines, laos, australia, new zealand -- they would be in jeopardy. he began funneling money and expertise to the south vietnamese to help them, shore them up. laos was a great concern. when john kennedy came to office, the first big problem he had to deal with was negotiating with the soviet union over a civil war in laos. this experience with vietnam very much began with eisenhower and was something that kennedy, ben johnson, inherited -- then johnson, inherited. host: good morning. janie? caller: good morning. my comments are concerning a journalist who does -- gets these kinds of things and releases them to the world. i do not feel smarter, safer, or more confident about what these things do to the world and to the country. we are now driven by constant political scandals. nothing gets done in this country anymore. absolutely nothing. people do not have jobs. people's families are

the idea of chinese involvement in north vietnam and russian involvement, we still have rules of the road as far as what we would do to them that i think remains sacrosanct, even in a cyber arena. i think you will have those rules with any nation, with any evolves nation state, in saying that what you just did was a foul. why? and we do not expect that kind of behavior again. what remains is ambiguity. he did not know to talk to. there is sufficient gap between the responsible officials that you can talk to and the potential actor. in this case, the attrition still remains foggy. the responsible officials could say, "i have no idea what you're talking about." this is a new era of statecraft. we have to figure out how to bridge that gap between responsibility and the action. >> but that is why i suggested briefly that you could look at the response. if you at least have it in a country, right? you can look at the responsibility as not a failed state, but the opposite of that. it is the country's responsibility to provide rules of the road. and they cannot just say, "oh, i do not know

place in one thousand nine hundred three after vietnam after these long extended forays into vietnam in north korea now. it's never actually been ruled whether or not this is constitutional whether or not congress has the power to do this and this is one of the reasons why presidents just completely defy it you know left and right clinton the bush now obama is as well the problem is that when there was a prior lawsuit during clinton's foray into the former yugoslavia dennis kucinich and a group of other congressmen even at that time filed a very similar lawsuit saying that it was illegal and it went to a district court for the district court said in the individual congressmen did not have any sort of standby ok so this is our last you know didn't really come to affect forgive me for interrupting but let's just talk about some of the angst on capitol hill about about the money that's being spent i mean there's a threat that they want to cut the budget for libya it's only ten million dollars a day or so that's what they say is congress really likely to cut the relatively small funding for libya

the idea of chinese involvement in north vietnam and the russian involvement, we still have rules of the road as far as what we would do to them that i think remain sacrosanct even in the cyber rig up. a reno. er arena. the kind ofect behavior again. the problem remains that ambiguity. we don't know who to talk to. there is a sufficient gap between the responsible officials you can talk to and a potential actor. in this case, attribution still remains foggy. the responsible officials could say they have no idea. this is a new era where we have to figure out how to bridge that gap between responsibility and the action. we are still bad and her head against the wall. >> i suggested briefly that you could look at the response if you have it in a country. you can look at the responsibility of the country for enforcing rules of the road for its citizens. one of the rolls may not -- may be that it has happened here a billion times but we don't know how it happens. >> that will ultimately have to be the answer. the implications are that in the estonian denial of service case, if you flip th

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south korea is on high alert as the north is improving its missile performance and deploying more patrol ships in the yellow sea. >>> vietnam held a military drill in apparent move to drills. its navy conducted a live ammunition drill 40 kilometers off of the province. it was held in the morning and at night and lasted nine hours. the ministry did not disclose the number of ships involved in the exercise. vietnam announced over a period of about two weeks, china had obstructed its fishing boats and a survey ship owned by state-run oil company. the vietnamese people staged protests against china on june 5th and 12th in the capital hanoi and ho chi minh indicating increases objections to the country. the u.s. state department expressed temps that the display of military power would only heighten tension in the region but vietnam said it was just a routine exercise. >>> china is scheduled to begin operating a high-speed railway between beijing and shanghai late this month. the trains will run at two speeds, 300 kilometers per hour and 250 kilometers per hour. the faster one will cover the 1,300 kilometers between beijing and s

north beach festival. it continues tomorrow. >>> it has been years in the making, but today the san jose vietnam town. the outdoor mall is one of the largest in the world for the south bay's vietnamese population. the developer wanted it to be the row of east san jose. one city leader called the development long overdue. >>> well a cause near and dear to the heart of cbs 5, getting a little attention today. the first annual grad walk raised money for our students rising above program. it provides college scholarships for low income students. they get financial assistance from applications to graduation. but also much more. >> i think besides the financial help that they give and just the opportunity that they give for us to go to college, they give us mentors and the social aspect we need to build relationships and friendships that last a lifetime and have that type of support. >> 98% of the students are the first in their families to go to college and 90% of them graduate. >>> from fright to fame all sealed with a kiss. .. but is the imag >> it's not embarrassing at all. it's actually a really beauti

vietnam. here's the latest information. the position at 21.3 degrees north, 112 degrees east.g to the west, northwest with jogs here and there. winds right now barely hanging in there at 65 kilometers per hour. most of the heaviest bands are to the southern quadrant of this weather system and it will slide in across vietnam and for there we might see enhanced precipitation as we go through time. also we're watching another area that lies just to the east of the philippines. but over the next 48 hours, we'll concentrate that to wet weather from hong kong, into ho chi minh city or saigon. the center of circulation not really a wind event. although in the past few hours i did see a peak wind gust in hong kong of 50 kilometers were hour. it's substantially lower than that right now as we continue to monitor this. then our other tropical system, our tropical storm, 7w, lies well to the east of the philippines, will move towards the east china sea and then into the yellow sea, perhaps at its peak intensity as we go into the 48-hour time period. rainfall amounts in some sections of c

north korea and what other nation? is it the soviet union, japan, china or vietnam?e'll tell you the correct answer and why we asked the question. make sure you go to cnn.com/gps for ten more questions. check out our website, the global public square where you'll find smart interviews, blogs, takes by some of our favorite experts. you follow me on twitter and facebook. this week's book of the week is by robert reich "aftershock" looks at what reich says are the underlying causes of the economic crisis and he has solutions for fixing it. if you like what he had to say earlier or if you disagreed with him completely, i think you'll find the book stimulating. he writes with clarity and passion about big economic problems. now for the last look. thames town is a typically idyllic british town. you can't miss the red telephone booths. you can see the london taxi or black cab and the local tudor style pub with real ale, lovely for a summer holiday. how do you get there? don't go to england. thames town is not by the river thames. it is by the yengsi in china. it's one of a

vietnam, the philippines and japan. china angered south korea by not condemning aggression from the north from pyongyang which sunk a southean ship. all these asian countries have been relatively sanguine about the rise of china. suddenly they began to realize it presented not just economic opportunities a big market for them but challenges, even threats. so they spoke out against what they saw as chinese bullying and aggression. and they became far more solicitous of america, far more friendly to washington. now this could not have pleased china. this was not the peaceful rise strategy that beijing had long talked about. but chinese officials said little about all this publicly so no one knew if they believed they had overplayed their hand. after all, they could just as easily taken the view that the world was envious and was ganging up on them and that would just bide their time which brings us back to that hotel in singapore. after year for the last ten years the shangri-la dialogue is the place where defense representatives where they meet. it gent liang li. he said they are purely defensive in nature. we constructed

vietnam. observers say the latest announcement may lead to further opposition against china. >>> south korea is looking for a breakthrough that will lead to the resumption of the six-party talks on north korea's nuclear program. its chief envoy to the talks has again visited china to figure out a way to end a stalemate that lasted for 2 1/2 years. wie sung lac met wu dawei in beijing. wu chairs the six-party talks. later in the day wie told reporters that the meeting was fruitful. north korea has been increasingly confrontational toward south korea. it recently cut off military communications and says it will no longer deal with the administration of lee myung bak. they've disclosed information about secret negotiations for an inter-korean summit. wie said that south korea is now trying to determine what's behind the growing hostility. >>> we're joined with the latest in business news. midweek we heard from the u.s. central bank and yesterday we heard from the european central bank. so the focus is on interest rates. >> that's right, catherine. and the ecb didn't raise interest rates yet for this month, but many are expecting them to do so next month. the european central bank announc

the vietnam war but he basically just pulled the plug in fact i believe congress pulled the plug they stopped funding for what congress did reduce the funding and what happened was of course the north means had a veto had a vote on this and their offensive in one hundred seventy five was what really determine the ending of the war rather going to decision budgets so is there any kind of parallel here to how vietnam ended and how well i think the parallel should be apparent and that parallel should be that the united states ought to be sitting down with the taliban right now and making a deal you and your relations with al qaeda will withdraw our troops on a timetable that's what that's what the taliban are ready to do well i'm not a state that's not ready to do it yet i've heard that we've been having this kind of we've had conversations but we're not ready to make a deal and in fact what we're trying to do is to get them to sit down with the karzai folks without any commitment by the united states to withdrawal of all its troops so we have just a couple seconds left do you think that this is this is really on hold until after the elections it's on hold until after the elections an

north korean ship from delivering suspected missile technology. navy intercepted the ship. >> 40 years after most of the pentagon papers were leaked to the public the secret government study on deception in the vietnamas been released on the internet including more than 2000 missing pages. 7000 page report really was the wikileak of its time in many respects. the papers showed that the johnson kennedy and prior administrations escalated the conflict in vietnam misleading congress the public and u.s. allies. >> nissan is advertise covering that producing an all electric car is a lot easier said than done. it had hoped to sell 20 thousands of these in the you this is year but so far only sold 2100 of them. as vl david lou reports some people have been waiting for a year to get one. >> this is a magic moment new car buyer save or. getting the keys to electric vehicle can involve a listening wait. >> it has been about a yearment year and some months. >>reporter: that's a long wai wait. >> yes it is. yes. i'm sure it's going to be worthy. >>reporter: on line discussion board indicate others who ordered the leaf last year also seen the delivery date pushed back month after month. the tsunami in japan part