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...purpose of the demonstration was to persuade potential customers to boycott the restaurant. "I'd say about half the people have refused to cross the picket line," said Susan Cooper, a New Haven employee and organizer of the demonstration...
...only body of government capable of standing up to the President on the war. Yet with few exceptions, Senators have had dismal records in opposing the war. They passed the Tonkin Gulf Rseolution in 1965 which enabled President Johnson to expand the war. They watered down the Cooper-Church amendment and voted down the Hatfield-McGovern plan. They continue to authorize and appropriate funds for the war with scarcely a whisper of opposition...
Stupid Wars. Behind this semantic dispute between State and the Pentagon, the Administration seemed to be testing the limits of last year's Cooper-Church restriction forbidding the use of U.S. ground troops or advisers in Cambodia. (A similar measure, adopted in December 1969, prohibits sending U.S. ground forces to Laos and Thailand.) After hearing Laird's testimony, Armed Services Chairman John Stennis declared that "the margin is so thin" in Cambodia that it might be necessary to loosen the strictures of Cooper-Church to allow some U.S. personnel to act as air controllers on the ground...
Most Senate critics agreed that the Administration had not yet violated the letter of Cooper-Church, although the feeling was widespread that its spirit had been abused. Moreover, as Edmund Muskie said, the air operations in Cambodia did at least "stretch" Nixon's own stated policies. On June 30 the President had promised that ''there will be no U.S. air or logistical support" for South Vietnamese missions in Cambodia. Nixon claimed only the right to send "air interdiction missions against enemy efforts to move supplies and personnel through Cambodia toward South Viet...
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...