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...almost alarming quality of self-deception. Last week John Connally resigned as a special adviser to the President. It was well known that he had taken an aggressive line on Watergate and that his advice was not welcome. More embarrassing revelations about secret bombings and covert military activity in Cambodia and Laos continued to spill out. Both the House and Senate have passed bills to curb Nixon's power to impound funds appropriated by Congress. Even such a comparatively trivial sign as Kissinger's postponing his trip to Peking, which had been set for early August to discuss...
...death watch in Cambodia has begun. With signs of its vitality fast fading, the Phnom-Penh regime last week resembled a terminal patient approaching the end. As many as 12,000 Khmer insurgent troops had massed within a 20-mile radius of the capital. Some crept so close that they were within two-mile mortar range, from where they shelled the city, killing 20 civilians and wounding 75. TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand was in Phnom-Penh to measure the life expectancy of the regime. His report...
United States warplanes waged air strikes against Cambodia yesterday for the 149th consecutive day since the bombing began in February...
...dream, thinking that something as idiotic as a seagull could sweep the country. But there it is, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, still perched in the top 10 for something like the 70th week in a row. Psychologists have had a field day in this time of Watergate and Cambodia et al., proclaiming Seagull a book of hope and comparing it to St. Exupery. But author Richard Bach is much too blatant in this expanded greeting card. He gives way to gimickry in place of the soft and the absurd. His seagull is too ambitious, and too successful...
...Cambodia. Counting today, Lon Nol has little more than 16 days left in power. Both the American bomber pilots and Prince Sihanouk and the Khmer Rouge will be back home very very soon...