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...doubly sure, The Times explained, if he didn't want to face New York's aroused and angry people. After all, the Nixon administration's crimes have included five years (so far) of the Indochina war, from the ground war to the Christmas bombing to the secret bombing of Cambodia to building General Thieu's torturous prisons and continuing to finance his attacks on areas he doesn't control. And five years (so far) of subversion of democracy at home, from the Mayday internments to Kent State to bribing the Pentagon Papers judge to letting complaint monopolies even more alone...
Drinan is the only Roman Catholic in Congress, as well as a member of the Judiciary Committee. He introduced a resolution calling for Nixon's impeachment last year, citing Nixon's bombing Cambodia without the authorization or knowledge of Congress or the voters and his administration's participation in the Watergate scandals...
...higher reality was at hand, but like a burst of light in a dark room, it proved to be illusory. Poverty programs, free universities and Camelot gave way to Kent State, Cambodia and urban terrorism. The toll of death and deterioration set in: The Kennedys, King, Dak To, Khe Sanh, Watergate. The clenched fist replaced the V sign as idealists turned cynical. Dylan and his followers withdrew into a more personal and private world. After a near-fatal motorcycle accident in 1966, Dylan moved to his home in Woodstock, N.Y., and switched from participant to observer to chronicle the halcyon...
Responding to a question about the secret bombing of Cambodia, Mallary said: "The misleading information provided to Congress on that is in my mind the most serious of the proven offenses now being investigated by the Judiciary Committee...
...cease-fire-as well as 600 tanks and tracked vehicles. But most U.S. observers in Saigon doubt that a major offensive is in the offing -at least not now. The Communists are still busy strengthening their position in the South and in the border areas near Laos and Cambodia. Further, in the current mood of detente, they might have trouble getting the enthusiastic support of China and the Soviet Union for a renewal of hostilities at the present time...