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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...
...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...
...current cliché from the political lexicon-"the people's right to know"-marks the battlefield but does not exactly illuminate it. This lofty phrase was first used a quarter of a century ago by the late Kent Cooper, then executive director of the Associated Press. "It means," he explained, "that the Government may not, and the newspapers and broadcasters should not, by any method whatever, curb delivery of any information essential to the public welfare and enlightenment." The Constitution, as it happens, does not provide for any such right. The courts, moreover, have never interpreted the First Amendment...
...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...