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...warmed to the core. If he is lucky, some of the good feeling may last even after he returns to Washington early next week. In the meantime, there is somber business to attend to-even in the California sunshine. This week the President will deliver a written report on Cambodia timed to coincide with his June 30 deadline for the removal of U.S. troops, and he will take a new step in presidential communications. For an hour he will be interviewed on foreign affairs by three commentators of the television networks. That format was essayed by John F. Kennedy (once...
...middle of this week, the last several thousand U.S. troops in Cambodia are scheduled to cross back over the invisible line that divides Cambodia and South Viet Nam, thus bringing the war's most controversial military action to an official end. The national debate that President Nixon's Cambodian decision touched off is certain to continue, however-in the press, in Congress and in the history books. Nixon rendered his own verdict three weeks ago, calling the Cambodian operation the "most successful" military action of the war, a judgment likely to be echoed in his written report...
...were essential to his basic goals: Vietnamization and American withdrawal. Yet as President, he had never suggested that the Communist sanctuaries, in existence for five years, threatened to doom either plan. Nixon's explanation was that the Communists were now "linking" the sanctuaries and threatening to turn eastern Cambodia into a "vast enemy staging area." It had been that for five years...
...ranks suddenly lowered the risk of American casualties in border raids. His clear implication was that the U.S. was not moving against any major new enemy threat, but had simply seized a golden-and perhaps temporary-opportunity to wipe out a persistent problem: the enemy positions and stockpiles in Cambodia that constantly menaced the city of Saigon, which is only 35 miles from the border...
...that limited score, the Cambodian venture was indeed a success. In eight weeks of concentrated scrounging, U.S. troops hauled off or destroyed mountains of painstakingly hidden Communist supplies. Estimates of the haul range up to 50% of the Communists' entire stockpile in eastern Cambodia...