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...administration claims that its Cambodian acts are meant to guarantee the implementation of the January peace agreements, which it says are beset by subversion from the North Vietnamese and the National Liberation Front. Henry A. Kissinger '50 is in Paris this week, purportedly to strengthen the agreements through new negotiations with the North Vietnamese...
...insure that peace actually returns to Indochina, Congress should follow up its initiatives in the Cambodian situation and cut off all direct aid of any sort to the Thieu regime. Only then can the desires of the people of Vietnam for peace and justice, reflected by the programs of the National Liberation Front and other political groups, be realized...
...investigate the operations of the Executive branch. The committee should work closely with the Senate's Ervin subcommittee, and should concentrate chiefly on the House's responsibility arising from the Watergate scandal. It should also treat the broader question of whether the Executive's attempts to continue the Cambodian bombing and impound appropriated funds are constitutional...
...developments of the Watergate crisis have shown an intolerable pattern of behavior in American government that goes far beyond campaign law violations. The Watergate and Vesco grand juries have dealt with partisan corruption, the Ellsberg case and arrogant administration attitude toward Cambodian bombing have revealed an equally intolerable abuse of public office...
Meanwhile, Lon Nol's undermanned, overmatched army waited resignedly for a renewed insurgent attack on the capital. "It's only a temporary rest," said one Cambodian lieutenant in charge of twelve men who were guarding a highway bridge ten miles from the capital. His soldiers, he said, were in need of uniforms and rice, and two enemy regiments were waiting a few miles away to seize the highway, thereby securing a level position within easy rocket range of the capital. "In a week or two," said the lieutenant matter-of-factly, "they will come and take the bridge...