Word: cooperation
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Only four months ago, the antiwar, antimilitary sentiment based in the Senate seemed a formidable challenge to the Administration. Much of the nation was still stunned or suspicious about the U.S.-South Vietnamese invasion of Communist sanctuaries in Cambodia. In that climate, the doves managed to pass the Cooper-Church amendment, banning the use of funds to support similar U.S. operations in Cambodia in the future. But a gentlemanly pro-Administration filibuster delayed passage until U.S. forces had pulled out, making the issue seem academic. Since then, the doves have been beaten on every significant amendment they have offered...
Even habitually anti-Pentagon Senators found it difficult to vote against the "bargaining chip" theory if it might one day yield a limitation of the arms race. So the Cooper-Hart anti-ABM amendment was defeated 52-47, and over the weekend opponents marshaled for a vote this week on an amendment offered by Senator Edward Brooke that would spend the full request but limit site expansion...
...Nixon Administration has pledged not to send U.S. ground troops into Cambodia again, and the Cooper-Church Amendment, which passed the Senate in June, would specifically prohibit direct U.S. air support to Cambodian troops. But near the embattled town of Skoun last week, an Associated Press reporter watched a Cambodian officer request-and get-an air strike by American F-100s, whose bombs landed a scant 300 yds. from the Cambodian positions. In Washington, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird parried the inevitable inquiries about the U.S. air support with an exercise in semantics. The U.S. pilots were not providing "air support...
...article concerning the House vote on the Cooper-Church Amendment [July 20] unfortunately overlooks the impressive credentials of our colleague. Congressman Donald Riegle Jr., of Michigan...
Congressman Riegle's leadership has been an important force in the congressional effort to conclude hostilities in Viet Nam. The response to his leadership on the Cooper-Church Amendment, 153 votes, was the high point in the effort of the House to limit U.S. involvement...