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...Cooper-Church amendment passed by Congress last year bars the Nixon administration from introducing combat troops or advisors into Cambodia and Laos, although it does make provision for the President to act in order to save American lives...
...Paris peace talks Xuan Thuy, chief North Vietnamese negotiator, denied Nixon's charge that his country has widened the conflict. He said that despite the invasions of Cambodia and Laos, Nixon "nonetheless pretends that it is the Vietnamese people... who have extended the war to all of Indochina." Nixon, he added, is "preparing senseless military adventures" against North Vietnam...
Nixon's speech, the dispatch added, indicates that further U.S. policy in Laos and Cambodia will continue on the "established course... aimed at suppressing by force of arms the national liberation movement in Southeast Asia...
...MANY people would come? All week the Indochina Teach-In organizers had raised and dropped that question. There was no way of knowing. Since the Cambodia invasion last spring, no one had tried to stimulate the antiwar nerve on the campuses. Just last week. Time magazine had tossed its faded bouquet on the tomb of the campus movement. The campus had "cooled," Time reported. Students were no longer interested in politics: they were now engaged in "finding themselves." And while outside the universities pollsters were describing an apparent popular revulsion against the war, antiwar activists had no reason for optimism...
...Eugene McCarthy, in silverpointed elegance. They came to hear Bella Abzug and TomWicker and Noam Chomsky and the rest of the star-studded cast. Vietnamization had pushed the spectre of death away from their side, and sophisticated news management, trickling pre-invasion news from Laos to avoid the Cambodia-style bang and squelching further reports to starve popular criticism, had threatened to dry up their source of anger. Yet they came, 2500 of them, and for some, that was justification enough for having a teach...