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...agents did for ITT in return for a subsidy to the Republican Party, who authorized the plumbers to rob private offices and what other offenses against law and decency they committed, and whether a president can violate the Constitution and lie to the Congress about a secret war in Cambodia...
Since the signing of the cease-fire agreement ten months ago, by Saigon's count more than 50,000 North and South Vietnamese have been killed in a series of small but bloody skirmishes. In the Central Highlands province of Quang Due, bordering on Cambodia, outnumbered and outgunned Saigon troops are currently locked in a bitter struggle to retake key outposts lost to North Vietnamese units earlier this month. A deadly war of attrition continues in the soggy green Mekong Delta, where the rice is ready for harvest. TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott visited both combat zones last week...
...raised the example of the Watergate hearings to explain why the American people had finally brought an end to U.S. bombing in Indochina; When people finally realized that they had been lied to--after watching the Watergate hearings and reading about the secret 1969-70 U.S. bombings of Cambodia-- they demanded a stop to those excesses. I explained that Americans like to think that they are doing the right thing; they are taxpayers and law abiders, and will not tolerate being lied...
...neighboring Cambodia the war grinds on. An interview with an official of the Sihanouk government in exile suggests that the chances for compromise are dim. In Laos, however, the signing of the Vientiane agreement offers some prospects for peace. Since the spring, the Pathet Lao have sought to seperate themselves from their old Vietnamese and Cambodian allies. In Thailand, conservative students overthrew the pro-American ruling junta-- wonders never cease! And of course, the U.S. Congress has clamped a lid on U.S. bombing and enacted restrictions on Nixon's war making powers...
...charge Nixon with lying about the non-existence of the tapes is tantamount to charging him with obstruction of justice. Such a charge is not inappropriate when leveled at the administration in Washington. Nixon has lied about the secret bombings of Cambodia, it was revealed this week that Nixon lied about his role in keeping an ITT anti-trust suit out of court, and there is every indication that Nixon and his cronies have been trying to lie their way out of the Watergate mess ever since June...