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...bombing of North Viet Nam and the mining of its harbors -would be put into effect initially. Then negotiations would begin on the final withdrawal of all U.S. forces and the return of the American prisoners of war. Possibly the talks would eventually extend to the related wars in Cambodia and Laos...
...best sense of those words," reporting that Ike made him feel "like the little boy caught with jam on his face," and denying that he ever made personalities a campaign issue. There are his speeches on Vietnam in direct contradiction to the facts, his announcement that the invasion of Cambodia was not an "invasion," his interference in the trials of Calley and Manson, lies about the economy, and attempts to cover his and Agnew's bungling. A particularly gruesome moment resurrected from his California campaign has Nixon trying to establish credibility as a state-oriented candidate. "I am running...
...yardstick except the polls, the Administration should be in trouble over its handling of the war. In the four years since Nixon's inauguration, the war has been escalated in Laos and Cambodia and carried back to North Viet Nam, where the U.S. resumed full-scale bombing last May. The violence has increased steadily. More than a third of the 56,000 Americans who have died in Viet Nam since 1961 have been killed during the Nixon Administration. All told, 897,111 Communist troops and 183,000 South Vietnamese soldiers have died in the war-36,000 of them...
That assault two weeks ago sent shock waves reverberating well beyond the city limits of Phnom-Penh. For one thing, it was the first time the central part of the city had been attacked on the ground since the war in Cambodia began in 1970. For another, it is precisely the sort of hit-and-run operation that allied intelligence has predicted for Saigon almost any day now. Regiment-sized units of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong occupied seven hamlets near Saigon at the beginning of last week; South Vietnamese forces recaptured some hamlets but only after they were pounded...
...attack underscored the fact that the Communists are essentially fighting one war in South Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia. Their main objective in the latter two nations is to protect the massive supply lines that support the Vietnamese main front. But they are also fighting in order to bolster the claims of indigenous Communist organizations -Cambodia's Khmer Rouge and Laos' Pathet Lao-for representation in any new governments that might be established in an area-wide settlement of the war. The relative ease with which the Phnom-Penh attack was mounted points to the impressive gains...