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...Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird said that the South Vietnamese forces probably would make some limited attacks into Cambodia after the current operations come to an end and that he would urge that U.S. bombers continue to strike Communist areas in Cambodia after June 30 if necessary...
...briefing in Key Biscayne, a White House official said that the Administration still expected South Viet Nam to withdraw all of its combat forces from Cambodia by about July...
...State Department press officer, Robert J. McCloskey, conceded that South Vietnamese troops might remain in Cambodia after the U.S. troops withdrew. And on the same day, Lieut. General Do Cao Tri, one of the senior commanders of Saigon's forces in Cambodia, said that South Vietnamese troops might stay indefinitely, until the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces were driven out of Cambodia...
...Laird emphasized that there would be no American military advisers in Cambodia after June 30, but other officials in the Administration said that if South Vietnamese troops remained in Cambodia and needed tactical air support, it could not be denied them. Such support demands close coordination between ground and air units, and would almost certainly require U.S. advisers on the ground to direct the U.S. air attacks...
Whose Scenario? It was easy to conclude from all this that Washington initially wanted Saigon's troops out and then changed strategy, or that the Administration intended all along to promote and sustain a Vietnamese expedition in Cambodia after June 30 but chose to obfuscate that policy, or that Thieu rather than Nixon was writing the scenario. None of this is so, Administration officials now argue-though some admit that the public statements are contradictory and confusing...