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Area jesters and sycophants have a field day this time of year speculating about who will receive Harvard honorary degrees at Commencement. With Harry Truman out of the running, the flunkies and lackeys are abuzz with talk of Lon Nol, the harsh dictator of Cambodia...
...found signs of hope where they could. Said one aide: "Conceivably the worst is over for the Commander in Chief." It was not a perception generally shared in Washington. By a vote of 63 to 19, the Senate voted to cut off all funds for the continued bombing of Cambodia (see THE WORLD). The House, which had already passed a weaker prohibition against the bombing, passed three health bills opposed by the Administration...
...This new approach suggests that the Communists might really be willing to give the truce a chance, at least for a time. With a cease-fire in Laos more or less in effect, that would leave only the Cambodian mess to be resolved. The U.S. hopes it can nudge Cambodia's former head of state, exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk, and Khmer insurgent leaders into talks with members of the expanded regime of Marshal Lon Nol in Phnom-Penh...
...large measure to continued U.S. bombing of Khmer insurgent positions. The days of that kind of help may be numbered. In the U.S. Senate last week, a majority of Republicans and Democrats voted 63-19 in favor of an amendment that would shut off funds for further bombing of Cambodia. The House passed a similar though less sweeping measure in early May. When and if the two houses approve a compromise version, Congress will, for the first time, be united in formal opposition to continued U.S. fighting in Southeast Asia...
...schedule of adherence to the Viet Nam ceasefire. (One major problem: the North Vietnamese demand for the release of all political prisoners in the South and a guaranteed political role for the Viet Cong.) Outside of Viet Nam, Kissinger's main goal was to stop the fighting in Cambodia. "We are trying for a Laos-type solution," said one top U.S. official, meaning direct talks between the government and the Communist-backed Khmer Rouge rebels...