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Belying President Nixon's assertion that we are reducing our activities in Southeast Asia, the U. S. has drastically raised the level of the air war in Cambodia and Laos...
...Sunday, U. S. helicopter gunships dropped South Vietnamese paratroops into Cambodia in a raid intended to free U. S. prisoners. When they arrived near Mimot, a town 75 miles northwest of Saigon, they found the suspected prisoner of war camp empty. Instead, the party captured 30 North Vietnamese soldiers who were in the area...
...raid was the latest in a succession of U. S. moves toward escalation. The U. S. has "started flying AH1 Cobra gunships, F-4 Phantoms and B-52 strategic bombers in support of South Vietnamese operations on Cambodia's Highway 4, put helicopter-carrying ships off the coast of Cambodia, and started a daily airlift of arms and ammunition to Phnom Penh," according to the Boston Globe...
ASIAN REGIONALISM. With U.S. encouragement, Asian governments are cooperating, at least to some extent, on common problems. Thailand and Malaysia send out joint patrols to clean up small but persistent insurgent bands along their common border. Thailand and South Viet Nam have formed alliances with Cambodia, albeit extremely uneasy ones, in Phnom-Penh's fight against North Vietnamese invaders. Australia and New Zealand have ceased, as U.S. Consul-General in Osaka Jerome K. Holloway puts it, "to think of themselves as islands somewhere in the English Channel," and are rapidly extending their defense role in Asia...
...been as visible or as vocal as some other Law professors, Bok did make a considerable contribution last year to the fight against the nomination of G. Harold Cartwheel to the Supreme Court. He also traveled to Washington in the aftermath of President Nixon's invasion of Cambodia to join the Harvard groups protesting the decision...