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...weeks ago, the Senate administered a mild rebuke to President Nixon when it passed the Cooper-Church Amendment cutting off funds for U.S. operations in Cambodia. The lengthy Senate debate embarrassed the Administration, and when the matter came before the House last week Republican Minority Leader Gerald Ford was determined that the embarrassment would not be repeated. TIME Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil explains...
...parliamentary situation was this: the military sales bill that the House had passed some months back had been amended by the Senate and returned to the House in the form containing the Cooper-Church Amendment. The bill was destined for a House-Senate conference, but the rules provide for the House conferees to be "instructed" on their stance by the House itself. It was in this area that the game was played...
Some of the dovish Republicans tried to talk Riegle out of it, but he would not be denied his moment on center stage. Riegle offered his motion for the House to join the Senate in approving Cooper-Church. Wayne Hays of Ohio, a Democratic hawk, instantly asked House Speaker John McCormack who would assign the speaking time during the debate on Riegle's motion. Riegle, replied McCormack. The prospect of Riegle cavorting, however briefly, in even a minor leadership role was too much for Hays, a veteran of 22 years in the House. He moved to table Riegle...
...President refused to see any kind of rebuke in the Senate's approval of the Cooper-Church amendment. Indeed, the language of the amendment had been muddied by modifications added in order to make its legal impact dubious even if it is accepted by a House-Senate conference committee, which must act on it next. Passed by an easy 58-to-37 margin, the amendment tries to tie the President's hands so as to avoid any repetition of a Cambodia venture by denying him the use of federal funds to 1) retain U.S. forces in Cambodia...
...Bangkok has "loaned" Phnom-Penh some river-patrol craft, as well as five T-28 propeller-driven bombers, but it has not come across with the troops that were promised. In part, Thanat's comment reflects the anger of U.S. allies in Asia over Senate passage of the Cooper-Church amendment (see NATION). However, it also points up what could prove a fatal flaw in the Nixon Doctrine: Asian countries are simply unlikely to come to one another's aid in what the U.S. might deem an emergency...