Word: cooperating
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Congressional opponents of the war expressed concern over the weekend that the U.S. may be violating the Cooper-Church amendment passed last year which prohibits combat ground troops and military advisers in Cambodia. Rep. Michael Harrington (D.-Mass.) said Sunday that "there is no question in my mind that we are further involved in Cambodia than we were expecting to be." He said that
Despite reports that U.S. troops landed in Cambodia during the fight for Highway 4 last week, Secretary Rogers assured the Foreign Relations Committee that the United States is staying within the limits of the Cooper-Church amendments and that the administration feels that it can do everything it wants to within the limits...
Senator John Stennis, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, however, expressed doubts that the U.S. could meet the threat in Cambodia without violating the Cooper-Church amendments. He said that if conditions take a turn for the worse in Cambodia it may be necessary for the Congress to extend the limits of the amendment...
...Senate, Frank Church (D-Id.) and John Sherman Cooper (R-Ky.) asked for hearings to determine whether the Pentagon had violated the restrictions Congress voted last year on Cambodian operations...
...toughness of the times. Gary Cooper, the loner beating the system in Meet John Doe, Frank Capra's mystical belief in neighbors and small towns (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; It's a Wonderful Life)?these were symptoms of a national desire to leave complexities behind at the moviehouse door...