PARIS (AP) — Twelve helicopters,
bristling with guns and U.S. Marines, breached the morning horizon and
began a daring descent toward Cambodia's besieged capital. Residents
believed the Americans were rushing in to save them, but at the U.S.
Embassy, in a bleeding city about to die, the ambassador wept.
Forty years
later, John Gunther Dean recalls one of the most tragic days of his life
— April 12, 1975, the day the United States "abandoned Cambodia and
handed it over to the butcher."
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