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...cooperate-if not in managing the world, in managing world peace. Thus it applies to their relations with China as well as the Middle East and other world flashpoints, though the wording is vague enough to allow each government to pursue present policies, for instance American bombing in Cambodia or Russian intervention in Eastern Europe...
United States warplanes waged air strikes against Cambodia yesterday for the 117th consecutive day since the bombing began in February...
...Soviet cooperation-meaning putting pressure on Hanoi to observe the cease-fire-will determine the extent of U.S. help in trade and technology. Although Brezhnev may be willing, the President's bargaining position has been weakened by the threat of a congressional cutoff of funds for bombing in Cambodia...
There is one fairly devastating measure of what the talks apparently did not accomplish. The communiqué disposes of Cambodia in one sentence, stating merely that "Article 20 of the [January] agreement regarding Cambodia and Laos shall be scrupulously implemented." Yet fierce fighting still rages along the access routes to Phnom-Penh, as U.S. warplanes continue flying combat missions. Kissinger implied that he has a tacit understanding with Tho that could bring peace to Cambodia and Laos (where fighting has stopped but no progress toward a political settlement has been made). Tho has denied that there is any understanding, secret...
Kissinger also found little understanding when he personally begged congressional leaders not to cut off funds for U.S. bombing in Cambodia until he concluded his negotiations. Five hours later, the Senate responded by voting 67-15 to enact the most sweeping fund cutoff in the history of the Indochina war. If the House-Senate conference committee concurs, the bill will end all past, present and future appropriations for U.S. combat on the ground, in the air and upon the waters anywhere in Indochina without prior approval of Congress...