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70. Sunday Times (London), May 11, 1975. See PEHR, II.6, 249f., for longer excerpts.
71. Schanberg, New York Times, April 6, 8, 23, 1985.
72. New York Times, October 28, 1984.
73. Editorials, New York Times, April 11, 1985; April 7, September 9, 1985. Others do note “America’s role in the tragic destruction of Cambodian civilization,” which “renders suspect any belated show of concern for Cambodian sovereignty” (Editorial, Boston Globe, April 12, 1985).
74. Editorial, New York Times, July 9, 1975; also Jack Anderson, Washington Post, June 4, 1975.
75. See PEHR, II.6.
76. Our review cited in the preceding footnote was therefore limited to materials based on this earlier period, all that was available at the time we wrote.
77. See PEHR, II.6, VI; Vickery, Cambodia.
78. PEHR, II.6, 135–36, 290, 293, 140, 299.
79. In the only scholarly assessment, Vickery concludes that “very little of [the discussion in PEHR, II.6] requires revision in the light of new information available since it appeared.” He also comments on the “scurrilous,” “incompetent,” and “dishonest criticism of Chomsky and Herman which has characterized media treatment of their work,” noting falsifications by William Shawcross, among others (Cambodia, pp. 308, 310).
80. Guenter Lewy, Commentary (November 1984), a typical example of a substantial literature. To our knowledge, Lewy, like other infuriated critics, did not condemn the Khmer Rouge in print as harshly, or as early, as we did. Recall that Lewy has experience with these matters, given his record as an apologist for war crimes, which reaches levels rarely seen. See chapter 5, notes 33, 86.
81. John Barron and Anthony Paul, Murder in a Gentle Land (New York: Reader’s Digest Press, 1977). Anderson, Washington Post, October 1, 1978. Kamm, New York Times Magazine, November 19, 1978, including fabricated photographs; see PEHR, II.6, 202, 253; and 367, 372, on the scholarly literature describing a country where “the population is ever on the edge of starvation” in earlier years and completely lacking an economy by 1975. Wise, FEER, September 23, 1977. See PEHR, II.6, for further examples and details, here and below; and Vickery, Cambodia, for additional evidence.
82. See our citations from his writings in the Far Eastern Economic Review (Hong Kong) and Le Monde diplomatique (Paris), in PEHR, II.
83. Vickery, Cambodia, p. 48. See also the review of his book by British Indochina scholar R. B. Smith, emphasizing the same point (Asian Affairs [February 1985]).
84. Vickery, Cambodia, chapter 3. Also essays by Vickery and Ben Kiernan in Chandler and Kiernan, Revolution and Its Aftermath; and Ben Kiernan, Cambodia: The Eastern Zone Massacres, Center for the Study of Human Rights, Documentation Series, no.1 [c. 1986], (New York: Columbia University).
85. PEHR, II.6, 138–39, 152–53, 156–57, 163.
86. Shawcross, in Chandler and Kiernan, Revolution and Its Aftermath.
87. See PEHR, and Edward S. Herman, The Real Terror Network (Boston: South End Press, 1982), for extensive discussion. See particularly chapter 2, above.
88. John Holdridge (State Department), Hearing before the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, 97th Cong., 2d sess., September 14, 1982, p. 71.
89. For discussion of their qualms, and how they resolved them, and similar concerns elsewhere, see Chomsky, Towards a New Cold War, chapter 13.
90. Nayan Chanda, FEER, November 1, 1984; November 7, 1985, with minor modifications, their general position from early on in phase III.
91. Henry Kamm, New York Times, November 8, 1981. See chapter 5, note 45 above, on the reported level of U.S. support for the Khmer Rouge.
92. FEER, August 16, 1984. Essentially the same story appeared in the Washington Post, July