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...itself means almost nothing-not even the new revelations about White House aides and former Attorney General John Mitchell. Nixon's effort to cover it up for ten months, however, means everything. His ending of the American involvement in Viet Nam is praiseworthy. His continued bombing in Cambodia and Laos seems senseless. His cutting of small domestic programs that affect the people is understandable. His reluctance to rein in defense spending and what is often seen as his toadying to millionaires and corporate giants are discouraging...
ACROSS the bleeding lands of Indochina last week, the only certainty was uncertainty. The cease-fire agreement signed three months ago in Paris was increasingly ignored: American bombers were blasting targets in Laos and Cambodia, North Vietnamese troops and weapons continued to flood into South Viet Nam, Cambodia's position darkened ominously...
...Washington, a State Department spokesman told North Viet Nam that if it "damped down the war in Cambodia," there would be a "prompt and quite positive response on our part...
...went through the Cambodia crisis, when we had a deep, deep concern and worry here that the country was coming apart," he said. "But now, with the President in control [of the investigation], there may be a lot of scary headlines, but the truth will come...
...this kind of round-about logic, the United States is now bombing Cambodia to protect the viability of the Thieu regime in South Vietnam. It is now bombing Laos and threatening to bomb North Vietnam to protect the viability of the Lon Nol regime in Cambodia. And one wonders what this will lead the United States to next when it claims that it will have to protect the viability of the Phouma regime in Laos...