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...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...
...Elliot L. Richardson '41, attorney general. Richardson has carried the ball for Number 1's game plan many times. Most monstrous was his defense several months ago of the Cambodian bombing. Richardson, in his previous incarnation as secretary of Defense, told the Senate in effect that Number 1 could ignore the Constitution's provisions that only Congress could make...