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...full of shocks and surprises that editors had a hard time remembering a week like it. The U.S. and the world were trying to pick up the pieces after Henry Kissinger's failed Middle East mission. Saudi Arabia's King Faisal was assassinated. In Indochina, the Cambodian government seemed helpless, while President Nguyen Van Thieu's panicking army yielded province by province to North Vietnamese troops. Portugal, a member of NATO, was continuing its slide leftward. All of this presented serious problems for a U.S. recently too preoccupied with the recession to pay a great deal...
...long will it take before the American people realize that the continuance of the Cambodian government is the single most profound factor in the rebels' favor? The U.S. has a sorry history of aiding and abetting tyrannical leaders, South Viet Nam being the most recent example. Why should the people support their present government when it has long since ignored the needs and rights of the people and when any change could only be an improvement...
...seems to me that "to save face," or "not to save face" is the real Cambodian question that now confronts Congress. If Congress decides to save face, by granting the aid, they will also have decided to prolong the hopeless war and along with it, the terrible agony of the Cambodian people...
...believe that any Congressmen can look at the suffering of the Cambodian people and vote to withhold aid from these oppressed people. What difference should it make if we like President Lon Nol or not? If we help in every way possible to prevent the collapse of the Cambodian government and it still falls, at least we won't have the blood of all the innocent victims on our hands...
...Administration fears that last week's setbacks will weaken future U.S. diplomatic efforts. China, which Ford plans to visit this fall, appears to be growing somewhat skeptical of American power and resolve; when Kissinger privately asked the Chinese for assistance in getting Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk to help negotiate an end to the war in Cambodia, the Chinese did not even reply. On the other hand, the Soviets appear eager to move ahead with detente and nuclear-arms negotiations. Ford plans to hold a summit in Washington with Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev this summer...