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United States warplanes waged air strikes against Cambodia yesterday for the 135th consecutive day since the bombing began in February...
...alone among newspaper commentators in his determination not to forget what the war meant to the people whose lives it destroyed. "Whatever one's moral qualms at savaging that once innocent and beautiful country," he wrote last week of the compromise date for an end to the bombing of Cambodia, "it represents a crucial step in restoring the political health of our country." No doubt it does. But the Cambodians killed between now and August 15 will be no less dead for that...
...Cambodia. Khmer Rouge revolutionaries last week pressed their assaults to within ten miles of the capital at Phnom Penh. Lon Nol has only 27 days left in power...
...When loyal CREEPs want to demonstrate that Nixon's activities were responses to illegal activities by his opponents, they point to Daniel Ellsberg and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Among the first fruits of Nixon's troubles were Congressional demands for an end to the bombing of Cambodia. Dramatically, it would be hard to improve on the Watergate hearings as a last act for the Tragedy of America in Indochina--except, of course, by Nixon's impeachment under suitably histrionic dramatic circumstances. Even as it is, Vietnam beats Coriolanus hollow. Yet this dramatic connection hides a deeper, more genuine...
...because that would lead them to oppose the war, or worse, to oppose Nixon's reign at home. So it was important that no one know that the CIA had raised, trained and equipped a mercenary army in Laos, that no one know that the United States was bombing Cambodia, that no one know the history of American involvement in Vietnam. Each leak, therefore, led to new repressive attempts to stop the pipelines. When someone from Kissinger's staff revealed that Cambodia was being bombed, Kissinger had wiretaps placed on all his subordinates to find out who was responsible. When...