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...goes the conventional wisdom. This theory is sometimes invoked to explain major disagreements between the House and Senate, as, for example, the one over this summer's Cooper-Church amendment. The House, said to be echoing popular opinion, was considerably more sympathetic to the President's Cambodian policy than was the Senate...
Based on its latest intelligence reports, the Pentagon is increasingly convinced that the Cambodian invasion is proving to be a smashing success as a limited military venture. TIME Pentagon Correspondent John Mulliken finds a new sense of general optimism among top military leaders, who claim impressive achievements for the operation. It amounted to "the worst setback the Communists have had in 20 years of war in Indochina," contends one Pentagon officer...
...invasion were killed. However, they may only demonstrate again that body counting is a highly unreliable exercise in this war. Since the invasion, the Communists have failed to mount any significant attacks in South Viet Nam. U.S. military analysts consider them incapable of doing so now along the Cambodian-South Vietnamese border. They could mount offensives from Laos or North Viet Nam, in the north, but have not done...
...tourists, strollers and protesters in Washington's Lafayette Square were startled to see a swarm of black limousines pull out of the White House gates, wheel around the corner and descend on A.F.L.-C.I.O. headquarters. President Nixon, maps and charts in tow, had come to explain his Cambodian policy to the executive labor council. He thus made a parlor call in a continuing courtship that Republicans hope will erode the Democratic Party's traditional base among working men and women...
There were two of them, both with Chinese-made AK-47s. They looked Cambodian. I waved and drove past. They waved back. Seconds later, their costumes registered: they were dressed in black, and their helmets were camouflaged with leaves and small branches. They seemed as surprised to see me as I was to see them. They might run. I turned the car and started slowly back down the road. Then, 300 yards away, the soldiers appeared again, this time out on the road itself, signaling that I stop. I pulled off the road. They came, guns at the ready...