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Angry Storm. Few members of the Congress disagreed with the President on the issue of withholding aid to Hanoi, but many were angry about the continued U.S. bombing in Cambodia. When Secretary of State William Rogers appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to defend the Administration's bombing campaign in Cambodia, he was greeted by a storm of opposition. The bombing, declared Democrat Edmund Muskie of Maine, "is without justification in policy, in the Constitution or in the law." Demanded New York Republican Jacob Javits: "Is this a commitment forever? When does...
Rogers maintained that the bombing was merely a continuation of longstanding U.S. policy in Indochina and a "meaningful interim action" in salvaging the ceasefire. To argue that the President had the constitutional authority to negotiate the Paris accord but does not have the power to continue the bombing in Cambodia, Rogers insisted, is to contend that "the Constitution contains an automatic self-destruct mechanism designed to destroy what has been so painfully achieved...
...both Hanoi and Peking. Although Communist elements among the insurgents have little use for Sihanouk, there was a possibility that they might try to use his popularity with the peasantry to broaden their own movement. One Eastern European diplomat in Phnom-Penh suggested half seriously that in the end, Cambodia could well become "the first socialist constitutional monarchy...
...Cambodia, where virtually everyone has a favorite fortune teller, the advice of astrologers often determines whether armies advance, governments fall or prime ministers take trips. When rebels bombed his presidential palace recently, Marshal Lon Nol was rumored to have fired some of his senior soothsayers. Last week TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand ventured into the back streets of Phnom-Penh to visit a gray-haired old astrologer whose clients include the marshal himself. Hillenbrand's report...
...marshal has nothing to fear, the astrologer assured me, pointing to the long bars in the chart. Lon Nol has a "good spirit" protecting him, and will rule for five years. The Vietnamese will be out of Cambodia by the end of 1973, and peace will come soon after. The marshal should not leave the country during 1973, but he may travel safely in 1974, especially in June and September, his good months...