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United States warplanes waged air strikes against Cambodia yesterday for the 160th consecutive day since the bombing began in February...
...Administration to conceal the bombing because they were afraid of public reaction," and Senator Stuart Symington charged the Administration with spending $145 million-which he calculated as the cost of the secret bombing-"under false pretenses." The Pentagon, surprisingly, replied that the real cost of the secret bombing in Cambodia and Laos during that period was $1.5 billion...
Momentarily overshadowed by Justice Douglas' abortive stay of the bombing of Cambodia, Nixon's more important court confrontation-over presidential tapes and documents relating to Watergate-was being joined. At 10 a.m. Tuesday, the White House was to deliver its legal brief to Judge John J. Sirica (see box), arguing that the President has the absolute power to decide when the national welfare is best served by the release of presidential documents. Therefore, went the argument, the President can ignore Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox's subpoena of tape recordings of seven presidential meetings and one telephone...
While peace in South Viet Nam remains as distant as it was six months ago, a different kind of settlement appears possible for Cambodia. There the Khmer insurgents have gained the initiative and now possess the ability to capture Phnom-Penh if they want-thus winning the war. The militarily and psychologically weakened Lon Nol regime has little chance of gaining any compromises from the victorious insurgents, especially with all American air support due to halt...
Theoretically, a coalition government in Laos and an insurgent victory in Cambodia could bring peace to those two nations. But no such prospect is in store for Viet Nam. Resolution of the war in Cambodia and Laos would only give Hanoi's forces unchallenged use of the two countries as staging areas for future attacks against South Viet Nam. Thieu has already warned that a Communist-controlled Cambodia would be intolerable, hinting that he might send South Vietnamese forces into the country. Thus the prospects of peace remain elusive indeed...