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...people, aroused and angered the Congress and surely limited his future choices in Indochina. Still, by demonstrating to the President the fragility of American public opinion about the war and the deep weariness of the U.S. with any course that does not lead the troops home, the invasion of Cambodia may well, by limiting Nixon's options, ultimately shorten the war. That, of course, was the President's aim in deciding to go into Cambodia in the first place. It is just that it may be working out in ways that he did not expect and would...
...asks. His actions in the fight over the Cooper-Church amendment answer his question. Dole has been in the forefront of the battle to water down the amendment and stave off a Senate showdown until after the President's June 30 deadline for withdrawing U.S. troops from Cambodia...
...Cambodia won its independence from the French in 1953 without fighting and managed for years to live next door to the Viet Nam War without becoming a combatant. Now the struggle for Indochina, with all its suffering and sorrow, its clutter and filth, has engulfed the ancient kingdom of the Khmers. Last week TIME Correspondent Don Neff filed this report from its capital...
...G.I.s who have left South Viet Nam have ever looked forward to returning to it. Yet last week, as thousands of U.S. troopers began pulling out of Cambodia in time for President Nixon's June 30 withdrawal deadline, "the Nam" looked almost like home. "Viet Nam is an R.-and-R. spot compared with Cambodia," said Specialist Fourth Class Oren Berry, 20. "We had contact almost every day over there." Added Specialist Fourth Class Ranee Lee: "I feel safer back in Viet...
...exodus, under the command of Lieut. General Michael S. Davison, was proceeding in textbook style. The remaining 12,000 U.S. fighting men in Cambodia were exiting in about equal numbers by helicopter, armored vehicle and foot. They were under strict orders to evacuate all their equipment in order to prevent the Communists from using any of it if and when they try to reoccupy the gutted sanctuaries in eastern Cambodia. Davison ordered the emplacement of numerous fire-support bases just inside South Viet Nam to shield the last men coming out with an umbrella of artillery shells...