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Thus President Nixon, in his April 30, 1970, television speech to the nation justifying the U.S. and South Vietnamese incursion into the Parrot's Beak of Cambodia, denied any previous American military action in the officially neutral kingdom of Prince Norodom Sihanouk. In fact, as a result of testimony by a former Air Force officer before the Senate Armed Services Committee last week, it was revealed that the President had for the previous 14 months personally authorized the secret bombing of Cambodia, a clandestine campaign by B-52s that poured over 100,000 tons of explosives...
United States warplanes waged air strikes against Cambodia yesterday for the 142nd consecutive day since the bombing began in February...
...recent compromise agreement between the White House and Congress on the bombing of Cambodia amounts to spreading death and destruction upon innocent people for six more weeks...
...Senate is now investigating--its task not made any easier by a conflicting stream of lies flowing from high level cesspools. Nixon's speech announcing the invasion of Cambodia in May 1970, the one where he fooled around with the maps as if he were commanding the German General Staff, now appears expecially ironic in retrospect. He told the television audience that America had scrupulously respected Cambodia's neutrality until that date. As he spoke, warplanes thundered into the country on raids that had been conducted for almost a year...
...Nixon's White House shows no sign of changing its practice of systematic lying (witness recent testimony dragged out by Harold Hughes that the mad bombing began in Cambodia in 1970). In that light, John Dean's revelation of the enemies list was hardly surprising to anyone around here. Senator Kennedy told a Boston reporter that he would like to thank his staff, the press and all those who had made it possible for him to be on the enemies list. In a more serious vein, Kennedy said he was not the least bit surprised by the list...