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Byrd amendment, and the issue became in effect a vote of confidence in the President on Cambodia. As Idaho's dovish Senator Frank Church put it: "We stand up now, or we roll over and play dead." Republicans who had been engaging in a muted filibuster to block any substantive vote detected growing support for the President and permitted a vote. But on the roll call, the Administration lost some Republicans it had hoped to land, including William Saxbe of Ohio and Oregon's Robert Packwood. When the Byrd amendment was declared lost, 52 to 47, some spectators...
...House is not expected to go along, and even if it did, the President would surely veto the bill. Yet the issue is not meaningless. What is really at stake is a highly political proposition: whether the Senate will in effect censure the President for taking military action in Cambodia without its consent. Nor is congressional impatience with the Administration's explanations of its war policy limited to the Senate doves. The House voted overwhelmingly (223-101) last week to send its own twelve-man fact-finding team to "study all aspects of U.S. military involvement in Southeast Asia...
ETCHED majestically against the endless green curtain of Cambodia's jungle, the graceful colonnades and parapets of Angkor memorialize a civilization that ruled most of Indochina nearly 1,000 years ago. Last week, in the war that will determine Indochina's future rulers, Vietnamese Communist troops occupied parts of the massive, ancient complex, scattering storage areas, hospitals and military emplacements near its statuary and intricately carved walls. For the first time since 1431, when the forebears of modern Thailand pillaged Angkor, the seat of Khmer culture was occupied by foreigners...
...Life Lines. But Cambodia remained the war's focal point. Along Cambodia's eastern border, U.S. troops, working against a pullback deadline that expires in less than two weeks, continued to uncover rich veins of buried Communist supplies in the sanctuary areas. But the U.S. sweep seemed only to push the Communist forces deeper into Cambodia. Roving forces of Communist troops kept pressure on three provincial capitals, including Siem Reap. the gateway to Angkor, and Kompong Speu, only 24 miles southwest of the capital, Phnom-Penh. The widening Communist attacks spread Premier Lon Nol's forces...
...icebreaker, the fight for Siem Reap certainly required a lot of fast skating. After Communist forces launched assaults against the town and its modern airport four miles to the northwest, the government committed nine battalions, including a full brigade of paratroopers, one of the few elite military units in Cambodia. The Cambodians managed to secure the city and airport. But the Communists continued to roam at will throughout the countryside, including the Angkor ruins, which the government declared an "open city" to prevent any battle damage. From art lovers around the world came messages appealing for both sides to consider...