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Clearly the opponents of aid to Cambodia were more aggressive. Generally they insisted that Lon Nol's forces were doomed with or without U.S. aid, that further help would merely prolong the killing without affecting the outcome and that the U.S. had neither a vital interest nor a commitment to either side in Cambodia's internal fighting. Defenders of aid echoed Ford's claim that the funds were needed to sustain the government troops until the rainy season, when a negotiated settlement could be sought, thus avoiding a "bloodbath" that might be inflicted by rampaging rebels...
...debate in Washington was remarkably calm and reasoned, even though it revived the nation's receding emotions over its most distressing military entanglement. At issue were the Ford Administration's request to send $222 million in additional military aid to President Lon Nol's shaky Cambodian government and, less urgently, $300 million in more arms to the less immediately endangered government of South Viet Nam's Nguyen Van Thieu...
...somewhat fainthearted response to the crisis, ailing, ineffectual President Lon Nol let it be known once again that his government was prepared to resign in exchange for peace talks -but nobody expected the Khmer Rouge to take up the offer. In Washington, Congress continued to debate the merits of an Administration request for increasing emergency aid to the Lon Nol regime (see following story), which has already received almost $2 billion in U.S. aid during the last five years. An equally serious problem, however, was the morale and fighting spirit of the government forces, as Correspondent Range discovered while...
...give the aid, there is no hope." There was a note of urgency in Ford's voice as he made a last-ditch appeal for quick congressional approval of his request for $222 million in emergency funds to bolster the tottering regime of President Lon...
Like the countless other congressional missions to Indochina over the past decade, the most recent junket was a grueling, rapid plunge into the complexities of war and politics. There were mandatory visits with the heads of state, Nguyen Van Thieu in Saigon and Lon Nol in beleaguered Phnom-Penh. Congressmen William Chappell and John Murtha donned fatigues and trooped off to a Cambodian army post. After a tour of a huge refugee center set up in Phnom-Penh's unfinished Cambodiana Hotel, a shaken Millicent Fenwick, Republican Representative from New Jersey, said: "I can't believe this...