:00:31
Cambodia.
:00:34
To many Westerners,
it seemed a paradise.
:00:37
Another world, a secret world.
:00:40
But the war in neighboring
Vietnam burst its borders...
:00:44
...and the fighting soon spread
to neutral Cambodia.
:00:48
In 1973, I went to cover
this sideshow struggle...
:00:51
...as foreign correspondent
of The New York Times.
:00:55
It was there, amidst the fighting...
:00:58
...between government troops
and the Khmer Rouge guerrillas...
:01:01
...that I met my guide
and interpreter, Dith Pran...
:01:05
...a man who was to change my life...
:01:08
...in a country that I grew to love
and pity.
:01:19
So here we go
with Voice of America...
:01:22
...news for Southeast Asia.
:01:24
It's 6:45 and a partly cloudy
morning here.
:01:29
Clouds too in Washington.
:01:31
President Nixon announced he'll
address the nation on Watergate...
:01:35
...within the next few days.
:01:37
The speech will be Nixon's
first since May.
:01:41
The scandal has caused resignations
and paralyzed the White House staff.
:01:45
It has also led to intense
confrontation and perhaps...
:01:49
...a constitutional crisis
with Senate investigators...
:01:52
...and a special
Watergate prosecutor.
:01:54
The speech was announced
after the Gallup Poll disclosed...
:01:58
...that Mr. Nixon's popularity
had fallen to the lowest point...