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...favor a definite time limit on the presence of U.S. troops in Viet Nam. While repeating that his goal remains "total withdrawal," he also reasserted his insistence that the U.S. must retain a residual force (of unspecified size) until the Communists withdraw all their troops from South Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos and release all U.S. prisoners...
Basically, the President argued again that the main purpose of both the Cambodia and Laos operations was to "cut American casualties and to ensure the success of our withdrawal program." (The number of U.S. fatalities did decline after Cambodia, although they have risen again in the Laos action mainly as the result of enemy antiaircraft fire: at the same time, Vietnamese casualties have soared.) Nixon also admitted that the operations in Laos and Cambodia were partially designed "to increase the ability of the South Vietnamese to defend themselves without our help." The two goals of protecting Americans and strengthening...
...Indochina at present (650,000). "If the figures are not true," says a U.S. embassy source in Saigon, "then we are not hitting them as hard as we think. If the figures are true, then they demonstrate a frightening commitment on the part of the enemy." In Cambodia, similarly, more than 22,500 Communists have been reported killed since the allied invasion began last April. Allowing for a ratio of two men wounded for every man killed, this would raise the number of enemy casualties to 67,500. But U.S. intelligence analysts estimate that the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong...
...plaintiffs spoke at a May 5 memorial service protesting the invasion of Cambodia and the killings at Kent State University. The suit alleges that police made photographs and wrote a surveillance report on the event and entered them into a dossier it maintains on the plaintiffs...
AMERICANS AND VIETNAMESE agree to respect the independence, peace and neutrality of Laos and Cambodia...