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Rock and roll upon bones, now death dances in Viet Nam, and in Cambodia. Where will it dance tomorrow? Rise up, girls of Tokyo, boys of Rome. Aim your flowers at the universal evil enemy. Blow aloft all the dandelion fluff of the world. Oh, what a mighty blizzard that will make...
...mutiny, but there is deep malaise and disarray in the Government of Richard Nixon. Sullen resentment and overt bickering compound the dreariness of Washington's labyrinthine bureaucratic corridors. Cambodia and Kent State, the slumping economy and the rhetoric of Spiro Agnew have divided the nation and split the Government. In the capital, a loss of confidence in presidential leadership plagues clerks and Cabinet members alike. And it is unfolding against a tumultuous background of challenge to Richard Nixon from the Congress of the United States...
...trio's disappearance brought the number of journalists missing in the Cambodian-South Vietnamese area to eleven, including two other Americans (TIME, April 20). As official and unofficial attempts to locate them continued last week, one response came from Cambodia's deposed Prince Sihanouk. Cabled in Peking by the Christian Science Monitor, Sihanouk replied: "If news of these journalists reaches us at any time, I shall not fail to inform...
...hundred-year-old American system," it declared, had come under "its most serious attack in modern times, not from the poor, the blacks, or the students, but from the White House." President Nixon's ordering of U.S. troops into Cambodia, it contended, "was in disregard of the Constitution, the tempering strictures of our history, and the principles of the American democracy. It was, therefore, an act of usurpation." Other strictures: "He made war by fiat . . . Our democracy is not an elective dictatorship . . . The President has now declared himself superior to the people, to the legislature, and to the laws...
While the noisy conflict in Cambodia has seized the headlines, the quiet defoliation of South Viet Nam has become the focus of well-informed outrage. Individual scientists and the influential American Association for the Advancement of Science fear that a biological wasteland is in the making...