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...have its intended effect on the Senate debate over whether the President could use federal funds to finance future U.S. troop movements in Cambodia or to support foreign troops in defending the present Cambodia government against the Communists. The first critical vote on such restrictions, embodied in the Cooper-Church amendment to a military funding bill, came on a pro-Nixon move by West Virginia's Democratic Senator Robert Byrd. He offered a provision that would remove any restrictions against a future move into Cambodia if the President considered it necessary for the protection of U.S. troops in South...
...will continue as Republicans offer other amendments that might ease the restrictions on the President or at least delay a final vote until the issue seems academic. Much of the intensity already is going out of the argument as the public temper cools. If the Senate does pass the Cooper-Church language, the House is not expected to go along, and even if it did, the President would surely veto the bill. Yet the issue is not meaningless. What is really at stake is a highly political proposition: whether the Senate will in effect censure the President for taking military...
...that, an estimated 5,000 executives and middle-echelon employees have been transferred to Houston in the past three years. Shell Oil Co. is in the process of moving about half its staff there from Manhattan. Other recent refugees from metropolitan New York include Occidental Chemical Co. and Cooper Industries, an engine and tool producer. At some point, Houston may want to adopt as its official motto: Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses...
Last week the Cooper-Church measure could have been passed with about 55 votes in its favor. There was no vote, however, because opponents wanted to "discuss the matter at length," as Dole put it. That is a polite phrase for a small, undeclared guerrilla-style filibuster. A vote will take place this week, but only on the preamble. Debate on the amendment's core might go on indefinitely, since it takes a two-thirds vote to impose cloture. The tone that it could take was suggested by Michigan Senator Robert Griffin's remark that the amendment would...
...constitutional question implicit in the Cooper-Church and other pending amendments (see THE LAW) is only one issue raised by the debate. The Administration's refusal to accept Cooper-Church is a message to Hanoi that Washington will not necessarily sit still in the future when confronted with a threat that it considers serious. There may be some psychological value in keeping an intractable foe guessing. But the Administration's position on the amendment increases apprehensions among Americans that the U.S. will continue to wage war, directly or indirectly, outside of South Viet Nam. Further, by postponing...