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...American soldiers yesterday refused to make a combat assault into Cambodia. A spokesman for the U.S. 4th Infantry Division said the six have been restricted to their company pending an investigation...
...Washington, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved over-whelmingly legislation barring funds for all future U.S. military action in Cambodia...
...Jones industrial average, which had plunged nearly 50 points in the five previous trading days, started to surge for the first time in five weeks. The rise was soon interrupted by the Defense Department's announcement that the U.S. would provide aid to South Vietnamese fighting in Cambodia. But the rally picked up steam again and was slowed only a bit by the President's televised pronouncement that U.S. troops were on the attack in Cambodia. The general feeling was that if the operation turns out to be limited and surgical, it will not overaffect the market...
Both Sen. Eugene McCarthy (D.-Minn.) and Sen. Harold Hughes (D.-lowa) were optimistic, about the chances of ending the war. "Cambodia, for some strange reason, has brought the country close to the moment of truth." McCarthy said, while Hughes added, "I think that as we move we can appeal to what I believe are the basic decent feelings of most Americans...
WASHINGTON, D.C., MAY 10-Saturday's anti-war rally here drew an unexpectedly large crowd of almost 100,000 to the Ellipse, a large park between the White House and the Washington Monument, to protest the U.S. invasion of Cambodia and to demand immediate withdrawal of American troops from Southeast Asia...