Ambassador: US handed Cambodia to ‘butcher’ 40 years ago

By DENIS D. GRAY April 11, 2015 10:35 AM
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.