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...Regarding John Wilson's referring to Senator Inouye as "that little Jap": as a lifelong Republican I have lived through and survived the Watergate scandal, the Cambodian lies, the soaring cost of living, and the paying of improvements for the Western White House through my taxes. But if Mr. Wilson and his racist attitude are typical of the kind of men and thinking surrounding Mr. Nixon and his aides, then I here and now repudiate the Republican Par ty and encourage other Asian Americans to do the same...
...final moment, U.S. warplanes pummeled the area around Phnom-Penh, the Cambodian capital. It was the last day of more than six months of frantic U.S. air support of the Lon Nol regime, during which the U.S. flew 32,000 sorties (including 8,000 by B-52s) and dumped more than 245,000 tons of bombs on Cambodia. This deluge totaled 50% more than all the conventional bombs the U.S. rained upon Japan in World War II. Most of it, of course, was aimed at guerrillas hiding in heavy jungle. As a result, the bombing obviously did not inflict...
...three weeks that he never ordered falsification of any documents to hide U.S. air and ground activities in Cambodia and Laos in 1969 and 1970. Last week, however, that flat denial apparently became inoperative. The Senate Armed Services Committee, which has been investigating what is being called "the Cambodian cover-up," released a top-secret 1969 memorandum, which showed that Laird had approved falsified reporting to hide bombing raids...
...Administration justified the secrecy on the grounds that the bombing had been approved by Prince Sihanouk, the Cambodian ruler at the time, who was then having to live with North Vietnamese troops inside his country, and that the U.S. had not wanted to force him into having to protest the bombing. But the secrecy outraged a number of Congressmen. Iowa Senator Harold Hughes called it "a deliberate attempt by the Administration to conceal the bombing because they were afraid of public reaction," and Senator Stuart Symington charged the Administration with spending $145 million-which he calculated as the cost...
...deadline on U.S. bombing approached and insurgent forces moved closer to Phnom-Penh, TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand visited the Cambodian capital and sent this report...