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...Senate is President Nixon's domestic Cambodia, providing privileged sanctuary to an aggressive band of tormentors. But the Senate's border is vulnerable every two years on election day, and looking to Nov. 3 Nixon is fashioning an attack unmatched by modern Presidents...
...weeks ago, the Senate administered a mild rebuke to President Nixon when it passed the Cooper-Church Amendment cutting off funds for U.S. operations in Cambodia. The lengthy Senate debate embarrassed the Administration, and when the matter came before the House last week Republican Minority Leader Gerald Ford was determined that the embarrassment would not be repeated. TIME Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil explains...
Since the U.S. completed its withdrawal from Cambodia in late June, the fighting in Indochina has fallen off drastically. The U.S. death toll for the week ending July 4, for example, was 61, the lowest in 31 years. The comparative battlefield lull was overshadowed, however, by intense diplomatic activity. As Secretary of State William P. Rogers wound up his 15-day, five-nation Asian tour, he spoke of "further political initiatives that might be taken for peace." These words, combined with other comments by U.S. officials, led the government of President Nguyen Van Thieu to wonder if Washington was thinking...
...because of the serious threat on its borders. Thanom indicated that the threat came partly from Thailand's native Communist insurgents, eight of whom were arrested last week. But the gravest danger came, he said, from the spillover of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops to areas of Cambodia near Thailand's frontier. Thus far, however, the Thais have not responded to Cambodia's urgent pleas for troops, not only because of Bangkok's internal economic problems but also because of its uncertainty over how much U.S. aid might be forthcoming to help finance a major...
...induced inflation, corporate profits are tumbling and unemployment runs high. Urgent civilian needs are being shunted aside to satisfy the demands of military budgets. Businessmen are virtually unanimous in their conviction that peace would be bullish, and they were generally cheered by last week's withdrawal from Cambodia. But they have begun to realize two disquieting facts. First, the real costs of war in Viet Nam and of the nation's total defense effort are far greater than anything reflected in the military budget. And though military spending is declining, the U.S. will have to bear a heavy...