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...make its legal impact dubious even if it is accepted by a House-Senate conference committee, which must act on it next. Passed by an easy 58-to-37 margin, the amendment tries to tie the President's hands so as to avoid any repetition of a Cambodia venture by denying him the use of federal funds to 1) retain U.S. forces in Cambodia, 2) send military advisers and instructors there, 3) provide direct air support of Cambodian troops, or 4) hire anyone to "engage in any combat activity in support of Cambodian forces...
...Richard Nixon has relied upon any single rationale for the U.S. invasion of Cambodia, it has been the necessity of protecting the lives and safety of American troops in Viet Nam. He emphasized the point firmly in his April 30 speech announcing the invasion. In his TV conversation last week, he mentioned it repeatedly, even invoking it as justification for the continuing American presence in South Viet Nam. "The President of the U.S.," he said, "has the constitutional right-not only the right but the responsibility-to use his powers to protect American forces when they are engaged in military...
That is an effective emotional appeal; who, after all, could quarrel with the goal of protecting the lives of young Americans? Moreover, the President's legal right to go into Cambodia can be roundly defended. However, the idea that protecting American troops in the field automatically justifies other actions -which may be questionable on their own merits-is a disturbing doctrine. Nixon has used it often and pursued it assiduously. He appears to be saying: it does not matter how or for what reason, faulty or otherwise, the troops got there in the first place. Now that they...
...that all U.S. troops have left Cambodia, a thorny question remains: Can the country long survive without their presence? In the past four months, the 40,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops in Cambodia have spilled out of the sanctuaries, seizing more than half of Cambodia's countryside and attacking at will over much of the rest (see map). It is debatable whether the U.S. invasion provoked their campaign or whether the Communists would have begun swallowing big chunks of Cambodia anyway in the confusion that followed the ouster of Prince Norodom Sihanouk. What is abundantly clear...
Hollow Victory. What does Cambodia need to survive? Says one U.S. diplomat: "Time, more than anything else." The current monsoon season gives an added advantage to the Communists, who live off the land and move on foot through the oceans of mud that bog down army vehicles. If Lon Nol can hang on until the rains end in September without losing much more territory, he will have achieved a significant victory...