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...tart answers for tart questions about other facets of the war. Would he favor amnesty for any of the young men who have left the U.S. in order not to fight in a war they think immoral? No. Since he has asked for $341 million in military aid to Cambodia, what assurance could he give that the U.S. is not sliding into another Viet Nam? "We didn't slide into Viet Nam." The Nixon Doctrine provides that the U.S. will aid its military allies but not send in U.S. troops; "Cambodia is the Nixon Doctrine in its purest form...
...them. If there is no foreign aid in the arsenal, you don't shoot as far." The simple assumption is that foreign aid makes friends for the U.S., and thus adds to the weight that Washington can wield vis-à-vis Moscow and Peking. If military aid to Cambodia and Viet Nam are cut back, the State Department suggests, it will delay American withdrawal from Viet Nam because the local military will not be strong enough to carry on alone. President Nixon has promised a new troopwithdrawal announcement next week -based on the assumption that the U.S. will continue...
...peoples' contributions" are quite heavy, Hanoi has every interest to see that the postwar situation and the withdrawal of "certain Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam" proceed smoothly enough not to tempt President Nixon to reinvolve the United States in Vietnam, directly or through Cambodia...
...July 1 plan never mentions the Laos and Cambodia problems which will become soluble after solution of the Vietnam problem...
...Indochina policies contend that foreign aid has been the forerunner of U.S. military involvement, and despite the Nixon Doctrine, this could happen again. They were sharply opposed, for example, to the inclusion of $341 million in aid to sustain the shaky government of Premier Lon Nol in Cambodia. They were also angered at the Administration's all-out and successful effort to defeat the Cooper-Church amendment, which would have forbidden any use of U.S. funds in Indochina except to withdraw U.S. troops. This lost by only three votes as White House officials threatened a Nixon veto...