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Unfortunately for Ford, the Helsinki Conference both coincided with, and helped to inspire, a curious rise in skepticism about the value of detente. The Communist triumphs in Viet Nam and Cambodia, the growing Communist threat in Portugal and, to a lesser extent in Italy, have apparently set off a reflex action in many Americans of taking their frustrations and disappointments out on the Soviets. While Moscow is hardly remote from any of these events, it is not the main villain. Part of the trouble is that detente, so highly touted by its originators, had aroused unrealistic expectations. On a more...
...stranger to scoops. A lifelong newspaperman except for his stint at the Pentagon-which he left with a Distinguished Service Medal to return to journalism-he was once a defense specialist for the New York Times, where he scored major beats on the secret U.S. bombing of Cambodia in 1969 and the SALT talks in 1971. But some Government officials have strong suspicions about this latest coup. Beecher, they suspect, may have been using material he recollected from his Government days to write the article. Beecher flatly denies the insinuation. "My story," he insists, "is entirely based on interviews...
Ford got off to a shaky start in foreign affairs, the area of Government where he had the least experience. He let Kissinger take the lead and admitted as much. Both he and Kissinger seemed helpless as South Viet Nam and Cambodia collapsed, and they harshly blamed Congress for refusing their futile request for last-minute increases in military aid. But the President mounted an impressive operation to remove the refugees without the bloodshed that had been predicted. Then he was handed an opportunity to display his mettle. The Cambodians seized the merchant vessel Mayaguez, and the President responded...
Under such a law, the State Department spokesman who lied about Francis Gary Powers' U-2 flight over Russia in 1960 could presumably have been prosecuted. Certainly the Nixon Administration's high-level lying about the B-52 bombing of Cambodia would have been actionable. Of course, Ted Kennedy is politician enough not to want to apply the law to campaign promises and political rhetoric - such a prohibition might jail nearly every elected official in the nation, depending on how rigorously one defined...
...that the Legislative Branch would dominate the Executive. With relative ease, the Democrats passed their own $8.1 billion tax rebate, largely abolished the oil depletion allowance, canceled Ford's plans to reduce the food-stamp program and cut off further military aid to the non-Communist governments of Cambodia and South Viet...