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...retreat within America's "name brand" churches [May 28]. Denominations are retrenching. But to interpret the defeat of Eugene Carson Blake for Moderator of the United Presbyterian General Assembly as a repudiation of the '60s is to misunderstand. That same assembly deplored the continued bombing of Cambodia and Laos, supported the boycott of lettuce and grapes, and returned the U.P. Church to the Consultation on Church Union. Marks of an era not wholly spurned...
...bias was pretty obvious to the Indians already. Was it really improper to report the first U.S. bombing of Communist positions in Cambodia in 1969, as some Administration sources have alleged? They argue that the disclosure bruised the President's credibility (as well as that of the Cambodian ruler of that period, Prince Sihanouk, who had tacitly approved the bombing). But the suspicion arises that the Administration was mainly concerned about reawakening the outrage of its war critics at home...
Events in Indochina last week indicated the need to implement the ceasefire. Heavy fighting continued in Cambodia, much of it for control of Route 4, Phnom-Penh's link to its only deep-water seaport. As American jets flew support missions for Cambodian government troops, the U.S. lost its second pilot in two weeks. On South Viet Nam's northern border, Hanoi continued building its supply roads through the Demilitarized Zone into the northern provinces of South Viet Nam, in violation of the January agreement. Far to the south, week-long clashes in the Mekong Delta, according...
Although the bombing in Cambodia--now in its 99th consecutive day--may be just as severe, it does not have the same immediate impact. Most students know little about Cambodia yet. Reporting from the country is scanty and shoddy, the outlines of the political dispute are hazy, and the revolutionary Khmer Rouge, to whom many Harvard students would be attracted, are still a shadowy and elusive force...
...Cambodian bombing continues through the summer, the alliance will reform. But if, as is more likely, Watergate and Congress force an end to the aerial genocide in Cambodia, the war, which has united and shaped American campus protests almost since its birth, will have disappeared. Barring another brutal American intervention in the Third World in the immediate future, radicalism on campus will come to a temporary stasis, probing gently for new outlets...