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And they certainly were a breach of the U. S. Constitution since Congress hadn’t approved them and, in fact, hadn’t even been informed of them. Not surprisingly, President Richard M. Nixon did try to conceal what was going on. Then, when a New York Times reporter uncovered the secret bombing and broke the story two months after the raids began, the American public received the news, for the most part, with amazing indifference. Four years later the same information would lead to cries for Nixon’s impeachment.

The sound was terrible. It seemed to go on and on, but it was really just a minute or two. We saw pieces of buildings and trucks, all kinds of things, flying through the air. The ground was shaking. Big clouds of smoke began to fill the sky. Then it became very quiet— but not for long. ” The urchin continued her recitation of terror matter-of-factly. “Mother ran back to our street, and I was right behind her. When we got to the top of a little hill at the end of the street, smoke and dust made it hard to see.

But she was not a happy child. She was softspoken and obedient at home and in her father’s shop. In her culture that was expected. Family came first and respect for elders, especially one’s parents, was taken for granted. At school she was a model student, an effortless accomplishment due to her innate ability. On the street she always wore a smile. However, that was a front. It helped sales. But selling wasn’t what really mattered. Kim Ang was at the market buying oranges in the middle of the night, at the park in the heat of the noontime sun, at the theater doorway in the dark of night— not because her greatest desire was to be a kingpin in the world of commerce.