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Ford's explanation in a message to Congress was that the U.S., to protect its own "national security," should give South Viet Nam a supplemental appropriation of $300 million and the anti-Communist government of Cambodia's Lon Nol $222 million. Said Ford: "We cannot turn our backs on these embattled countries. U.S. unwillingness to provide adequate assistance to allies fighting for their lives would seriously affect our credibility throughout the world." All that was being sought for Saigon, Kissinger said, was for Congress to provide the funds that it had authorized for the current fiscal year...
...still the retreat continues. Last week. President Ford asked Congress for an additional half-billion dollars to prop up the Thieu and Lon Nol regimes in Vietnam and Cambodia; more money to visit more death from the skies upon innocent people. The conductor has changed, the orchestra is different, but the composer, Henry A. Kissinger '50, and the symphony of murder and repression are the same. Yet we sit quietly listening to the strains of death, and our voices are still...
Cambodia is in no better shape. With the arrival of the dry season in late January, the Khmer insurgents are expected to resume their attacks against Phnom-Penh and the few other major cities still controlled by the Lon Nol government. Neither side appears strong enough to deliver a knockout blow, and many more statistics will certainly be added to the already ghastly five-year toll: 600,000 Cambodians killed or wounded and one-half of the 7 million population made into homeless refugees...
Last week, the United Nations voted down a proposal pushed by the People's Republic of China to oust the Lon Nol regime from the U.N. The proposal was defeated by two votes, largely because of Soviet ambivalence and heavy U.S. lobbying. Despite reports that some U.S. officials now want to end our support of Lon Nol, the current administration seems committed to propping up the regime without regard for the cost to the Cambodian people. Western journalists estimate that the annual rate of inflation in Cambodia is now between 250 and 300 per cent, a staggering figure...
...many areas, the U.S. holds the key to peace and progress in Cambodia. In the absence of American dollars and other forms of continued intervention it seems probable that the Lon Nol regime would fall almost immediately. While the Khmer Rouge provides no guarantee of building a model democratic socialist state in Cambodia, they constitute a definite progressive alternative to the current regime. Cutting all American aid is the necessary first step out of the current stalemate...