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REPORTS FROM CAMBODIA last week merely confirmed what has been long suspected: The United States is still heavily involved in illegal military support of the foundering Lon Nol regime--a blatant violation of Congressional action which bars military advisers and the direct involvement of any American troops in Southeast Asia...
...adviser was sent to Kampot when American officials in Cambodia decided that the situation there was becoming critical for the Lon Nol troops. In the past month, insurgent Khmer Rouge troops have moved within one mile of the city and captured its water supply and Cambodia's only cement factory. The population of the city has dropped from 50,000 to less than 20,000 in that time and almost all private shops and businesses have closed...
...reports brought angry reaction from congressmen last week, and 41 senators have co-sponsored a resolution by Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.) demanding a complete investigation of all U.S. military activity in Cambodia...
...long as the U.S. government continues to support the Lon Nol regime in Cambodia and the Thieu regime in South Vietnam, it must continue to offer covert military assistance to protect the billions of dollars in weapons and economic aid already being provided...
THERE IS NO REASON to think Ford has forsaken this goal. As recently as last year, he played an essential role in railroading Republican support for funds for the bombing of Cambodia; when Congress finally voted to stop the bombing, it was almost exclusively with Democratic votes. "Ford may be a plodder," the 1974 Almanac of American Politics noted, citing the votes on Cambodia, "but he is nevertheless an effective, competent minority leader." After his appointment as vice president, Ford continued to defend his record on civil rights (citing his support for the Philadelphia Plan to hire more blacks...