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...Limitation. The President ruled out the use of U.S. ground troops in Laos, Cambodia or North Viet Nam. But, reaffirming a policy first spelled out last December, he said: "I am not going to place any limitation upon the use of airpower ... It will be directed against those military activities which I determine are directed against and thereby threaten our remaining forces in South Viet...
MANY Americans anxious to see the U.S. disengage from Indochina have urged on President Nixon what might be called the Shakespearean solution to the war. To them, the invasion of Cambodia last spring and the current incursion into Laos seem only to be widening the theater of fighting-an odd order of going indeed. Last week, at an informal press conference, the President reiterated that he intends to go on reducing the U.S. role in the war through progressive troop withdrawals. But Nixon left a wide margin for maneuvering to carry out that intention...
Increasingly, however, critics insist that the real reason for the Cambodia and Laos incursions and the wider use of airpower is not primarily to protect G.I.s on their way out of Viet Nam. It is, they argue, to buy time for President Nguyen Van Thieu's regime in Saigon and, to a lesser extent, for the government in Phnom-Penh. "The President appears to be imposing Thieu and his group on the South Vietnamese people," said Averell Harriman last week. "That's what Vietnamization amounts to." The Communists, for their part, of course, seem equally intent on deposing...
...undoubtedly right when they say that Vietnamization is speeding the U.S. withdrawal. It is also evident that the strategy is militarily effective for South Viet Nam. The country is more secure and its army stronger than at any time since the U.S. arrived. The same cannot be said for Cambodia and Laos, whose civilian populations are paying dearly for that strength. For that reason, Senator Edward Kennedy last week decried Vietnamization as a "policy of violence" that has led to "war and more...
...also reported late last night that North and South Vietnamese forces in Cambodia have engaged in their heaviest clashes since last May, when an Allied force led by American ground troops invaded that country...