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Last fall, when antiwar protest was reaching a crescendo, President Nixon refused to buckle. Instead, he rallied his Silent Majority, promoted his Vietnamization policy, and watched the opposition deflate. This spring he is attempting the same. Though the ferocity of the outcry over Cambodia rattled the Administration, the White House is still determined to ride it out. As American troops come out of Cambodia, Nixon hopes, the issue will become increasingly academic...
...useful in purely military terms. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird pressed his commanders in Viet Nam about the possibility of accelerating U.S. troop withdrawals. At the same time, Administration loyalists in the Senate conducted an effective stalling action against a cutoff of funds for any future U.S. operations in Cambodia after June 30. Often speaking to a nearly empty chamber, Republican Senators prevented any substantive vote. An innocuous change in the wording of the measure's preamble was approved, 82 to 11, but it amounted only to what Republican Whip Robert Griffin called a "cosmetic" to make the legislation...
Zigs and Zags. With the Administration's self-imposed deadline for leaving Cambodia only weeks away, attention is shifting from the controversy over the original U.S. incursion to the murky question of whether South Vietnamese forces will remain in Cambodia and what support the U.S. will give them if they stay or return. Though senior officials insist that Washington's private approach to the problem of Saigon's role has been logical and consistent, the public record suggests either confusion or purposeful dissembling. Some of the zigs and zags...
...press conference, President Nixon reaffirmed that U.S. troops would quit Cambodia by July 1 and added that he "would expect that the South Vietnamese would come out approximately at the same time that we do because when we come out our logistical support and air support will also come out with them." Three days later, President Nguyen Van Thieu said that his troops faced no deadline and that they would feel free to return later whenever asked to do so by the Cambodian government...
...Secretary of State William Rogers said that he would not "rule out air activity over Cambodia" past the June 30 deadline. He also said that the U.S. was encouraging both South Viet Nam and Thailand to cooperate with Cambodia in meeting Communist threats there...