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Doom Prophecies. There were other events to support the alarms of the Ford Administration. Thailand suggested that it might order the U.S. to stop using that nation's airfields for munitions flights to Cambodia and to withdraw all military missions in Thailand within a year. In Western Europe, where U.S. strategic interests are far greater, the government of Portugal turned more leftward, possibly jeopardizing the future of U.S. bases in the Azores and Portugal's commitments to NATO...
...increasingly dangerous U.S. airlift (by private airlines contracted by the U.S. Government), which has already cost more than $7 million for logistics alone, flies ammunition, petroleum and food from Thailand and South Viet Nam to the besieged capital. For the current fiscal year (ending June 30), U.S. military aid totals $275 million; almost all of it is exhausted. Since 1970, the U.S. has given Cambodia $1.8 billion in military and economic assistance. The Administration has requested $222 million in supplemental aid for this fiscal year to provide the government with bullets, artillery shells and bombs...
...satellites of the Vietnamese. Other nations of the region would have to make some accommodations with the powerful Vietnamese, like adopting a more neutral foreign policy. There seems little evidence, however, to substantiate fears that Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines would fall to the Communists like dominoes. In Thailand, the small insurgency movement might gain at least moral support from new Communist governments in the region; but Bangkok would probably try to prevent that by moving quickly to improve its relations with Peking and Hanoi...
...Communists have been able to put enormous pressure on Saigon even with Phnom-Penh in Lon Nol's hands, and the fall of his government is not likely to make a crucial difference. Beyond that, there remain obstacles to the spread of Communist influence in Southeast Asia. Neighboring Thailand, presumably the next endangered domino, is well equipped to resist Vietnamese influence. Communist insurgents in the northeast have achieved little so far, and Thailand has sufficient economic and military strength-including 25,000 U.S. military personnel and 350 aircraft-to successfully counter any threat from outside...
...Saxbe went to some pains to point out that he opposed the Administration's decision, although he said he was obliged to support it. Even though ranking State Department officials are confident that the storm "will blow over pretty soon," the spectacle of the U.S. ambassador sightseeing in Thailand to delay taking up his post in India is a poor omen for his tenure...