Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...continued to spill out. Both the House and Senate have passed bills to curb Nixon's power to impound funds appropriated by Congress. Even such a comparatively trivial sign as Kissinger's postponing his trip to Peking, which had been set for early August to discuss a Cambodian settlement with Chou Enlai, aroused speculation. Kissinger is concerned that Watergate has eroded the President's-and his own -ability to conduct foreign policy, and that the longer the crisis goes on, the more damaging and potentially dangerous it is to the nation...
...American policy since [1954] has been to scrupulously respect the neutrality of the Cambodian people...
Former Air Force Major Hal M. Knight had served as an operations officer at a radar-guidance station in Bien Hoa, South Viet Nam, in 1970. He told the committee that he and others had doctored reports to make it appear that the Cambodian missions had been flown against targets in South Viet Nam. True reports on the Strategic Air Command bombing runs out of Guam or Thailand -as many as 407 in one month-were routed directly to President Nixon, National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger and a small handful of top officials, bypassing the normally classified Pentagon record-keeping...
...administration which has pledged itself to strict constructionism has seriously compromised itself by indulging in affairs of questionable constitutionality, i.e. impoundment of Congressionally appropriated funds, executive privilege, the pocket veto, the abuse of the war powers in the Cambodian war. The administration should now face the same legal constraints all citizens are expected to live by. Steven Mednick
...deep is the conviction that American planes will continue bombing, according to one foreign diplomat, that the Cambodian chiefs of staff have done little to plan their strategy for the time after the bombing stops. In the diplomatic community, there was a widely heard, half-serious judgment: "The question now is not what will happen after the Americans stop bombing Aug. 15. The question is whether the Cambodians can hold out until then...