NOTES in the NEWS
NOTES in the NEWS The Forgotten Cambodians One remarkable aspect of the Administration's carefully orchestrated campaign of "success" rhetoric about the Cambodian invasion is the almost total...
...The expanded war in Southeast Asia will be brought to an end by nothing less than unequivocal instructions from Congress to bring every last American soldier home—and to curtail the President's power to wage war by hiring mercenary proxies...
...Johnson is the Pulitzer Prize-winning national correspondent of The Washington Post...
...Steif is a Washington staff writer for the Scripps-Howard News Alliance...
...Our tradition demands that we—we, the lawyers —assume the leading role we have never shirked in the history of this nation...
...Muskie would not...
...Could it be the accident of geography...
...According to the McGovern committee, Federal food programs now reach only nine million of the more than twenty-five million Americans whose family income is below the Government's austere poverty level of $3,720 a year for a family of four...
...We have awakened to a realization that deep-seated and courageously expressed dissent demands an open-minded audience by our Government...
...But the June 11 vote on the amendment sponsored by Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, which would have gutted Cooper-Church, and issued a new blank check to the President, demonstrated that a majority of the Senate—albeit a narrow one—is finally ready to say No to Mr...
...it returned it to the Federal district court for an order which presumably will close the plant...
...It led to the nightly conferences in a score of legal offices, and the final plans to take their protest publicly -o Washington...
...One More Chance Thousands of college students across the country have committed themselves to a summer and fall of determined campaigning for antiwar candidates...
...The new wave of peace politics rolling off the campus parallels perfectly the course of action urged upon students by Senator J. W. Fulbright...
...It called him "the chief architect of the disastrous Air Quality Act of 1967," accused him of "passivity since 1967 in the face of an ever-worsening air pollution crisis," and charged that his "leadership has wavered significantly" and was propped up only by President Nixon's trying—belatedly—to get into the environmental field...
...We believe the Cooper-Church amendment must be passed—but only as a first step toward curbing the excesses of American imperialism...
...In addition to lobbying for peace through the legislative process," he wrote in "What Students Can Do for Peace," in the June issue of The Progressive, "there is an obvious and promising strategy in this election year: to take to the political hustings and to work in an efficient and organized way for candidates who favor peace...
...Yet NAPCA has in its files a three-year-old memo from HEW's general counsel saying it has the legal power to pull cars off assembly lines and to test them...
...For perhaps the last time in this generation, they are back in the system...
...this could be interesting because the students may differ with Party leaders on the identity of true doves and hawks...
...The President, of course, claims to have shortened the war by widening it...
...They waste a good deal of their limited time in the capital," complained James Reston of The New York Times, "talking to Congressmen who are already on their side or irreversibly committed against them...
...But the law does a beautiful job of protecting the property rights of those who pollute...
...Residents of Mendocino with any income at all were barred from the food...
...And for the rest of us the lesson is the one that brought such howls of indignation when President Kingman Brewster of Yale advanced it last spring—that the American system of justice does not provide equal protection to the Black Panthers...
...William Steif (Mr...
...we might close at least part of the generation gap as well...
...The figures amply justify the conclusion reached by the two West Point professors—that the Government's efforts are deliberately maintained as "paper programs" for the poor...
...Army doctor told us that he had visited the village that morning, had treated several wounded civilians, and had seen others who had been killed...
...But Nader feels that radical, wrenching changes must be made in the economy if we are to survive at all...
...Charles F. West Vice President, International Association of Machinists Let 'em Eat Paper The latest indictment of the Federal Government's pitifully inadequate efforts to feed the hungry in our midst comes not from "bleeding heart" liberals or "sensational" news media or "professional do-gooders" in the welfare establishment...
...One way of being tough in my part of the country is to do it without name-calling or recrimination—to develop clear ideas of what we stand for and to press for them as hard and effectively as we can...
...Muskie is "an extremely asute politician who by temperament avoids conflict," the report noted...
...forces leave...
...They have not picked out the candidates in the swing districts, where a little more persuasion or organization might make the difference between victory and defeat...
...Yet the issue— how to handle air pollution—remains, and Muskie never really answered Nader's charges...
...The Chicago raid, which claimed the life of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, was conceived in malice, executed in confusion, and concealed—unsuccessfully—in a barrage of lies and deceptions in which the prosecutors and news media cheerfully abetted the police...
...Please turn to pages 24 and 33 for further information...
...As Senator Frank Church of Idaho has said, Congress must not allow the President to adopt "Hessians Unlimited" as the motto of the Nixon Doctrine for Asia...
...The stench continued because the owner appealed...
...They contended that the border areas of Cambodia were controlled by the North Vietnamese and Vietcong and that everyone else had fled...
...In addition to the usual villains (industrial interests, bureaucrats, lobbyists, venal politicians) the report nailed a most unusual culprit—the junior Senator from Maine, who was the Democratic Party's 1968 Vice Presidential nominee and currently is the front-runner for the Democrats' 1972 Presidential candidate...
...Nader's report pointed out that twelve prototypes represented 2.5 million cars...
...For every youth working to elect peace candidates, there are a dozen of the older generation sitting on their hands at home, letting the Pentagon and its political and industrial allies run wild...
...If the cars do not measure up, the assembly lines could be closed down until the cars passed the tests...
...When we raised the question at a MACV briefing, we were told that there had been no civilian casualties because there were no civilians in the area of military operations...
...The student campaigners, it has been pointed out, represent the young who want to give the system one more chance...
...You don't see a lot of long hair or wide ties, and besides that this is something which we as lawyers should know something about...
...When Labor Sleeps One of labor's best friends—[Senator] Ralph Yarborough—was running against a dyed-in-the-wool conservative...
...This is what the Constitution is all about...
...If these cars proved out, the manufacturers were given the go-ahead for a whole year's production...
...Sanctuaries" are in the eye of the beholder...
...Agnew Dear Mr...
...military officers did not seem to consider either ARVN or U.S...
...It's Unanimous Without any public announcement, President Nixon dispatched eight young members of his White House staff to sound out students on more than a score of college campuses after the U.S...
...Trotsky was then certain that the regime was going to be overthrown...
...It is imperative, therefore, that the Senate of the United States proceed with the urgent business of reasserting its control over a runaway war machine...
...There is a possibility that the nation could continue to pollute the air and run only the health and welfare risks that Nader so far has noted...
...But the way things are going, it looks as if Muskie is gambling with lives to protect property rights, while Nader turns out to be the conservative—all he wants to do is to conserve lives...
...11 Three hundred Stanford students helped nominate a leading Republican dove, Representative Paul McCloskey, for reelection and defeated a conservative from his San Francisco district...
...Nor is there much chance of any clean air resulting from this procedure any time soon...
...Both seek to work within the fabric of the law...
...It gives us no satisfaction at all to assert that President Brewster was absolutely right...
...You rattled off the names of publications and individuals who are guilty of "irresponsibility and thoughtlessness" in judging the Nixon Administration...
...The consultants added: "Virtually no one with whom we talked believed that [Cambodia] would not continue to be a theater of war after U.S...
...Supreme Court reject the case...
...it is a land of enemy sanctuaries, vast arms caches, and mountains of stockpiled rice—a land to be "cleaned out" by a swift incursion of U.S...
...Those in Government who dismiss demonstrations as ineffectual manifestations of an aroused rabble and scoff at editorials—particularly in Eastern periodicals—as mere rhetoric, flout the rule of law and invite violence...
...That task force, headed by lawyer John Esposito, said the quality of our air was getting steadily worse, with measurable health effects...
...Cool It I personally want to say that I am appalled and ashamed that things should have come to such a pass in this country that I am skeptical of the ability of black revolutionaries to achieve a fair trial anywhere in the United States...
...Even before the report was released, the authorities had prudently dropped charges against those Panthers who survived the police raid...
...A year ago Captain Clifford Hen-drix, an assistant professor of government at West Point, and Captain Ter-rence P. Goggin, an assistant professor of public policy, were on temporary duty with the President's Urban Affairs Council...
...It is too early to pass judgment on the results of the new political activity by young Americans who have chosen to give the democratic process another chance instead of going the violent way of the SDS Weathermen and similar groups...
...In large part this atmosphere has been created by police actions and prosecutions against the Panthers in many parts of the country...
...The lawyers, as well as the students, were expressing outrage and betrayal...
...Finch's letter—drafted by NAPCA Commissioner John T. Middleton —told Nader that the law's language makes that power "questionable," although Muskie says he has no doubt about it...
...They are now the moral conscience of the nation...
...incursion into Cambodia and the killings at Kent State University...
...It got the auto makers to give it a few hand-tooled prototypes ahead of assembly line production...
...The first contribution to the fairness of the trial which anyone can make is to cool rather than heat up the atmosphere in which the trial will be held...
...Only last May did the U.S...
...And Ralph Yarborough, one of labor's best friends, was defeated...
...The system will not be worthy of them unless we elders and squares join them in making it so...
...With the approval of the Council's Executive Secretary, Daniel P. Moynihan, and his aide, Stephen Hess, the two captains undertook an eight-week survey of the Federal food stamp and free food programs...
...No one knows for certain...
...The analogy is too far-fetched—we are not in that kind of a revolution no matter what anyone says these dispiriting days—but there are odd signals in the air that foreshadow momentous changes...
...It was not," Senator Fulbright reminded young people to whom his article was primarily directed, "a purely intellectual process that led President Johnson to reverse his escalation policy in Vietnam...
...But, alas, no mention of The Progressive although we have worked diligently to tell the truth about your crowd...
...On the contrary, it was the view of almost everyone we met that Cambodia has now been linked inextricably to the war in Vietnam, and that the terms of reference of that war have been permanently changed because its geographic area has been expanded...
...It took two years from the passage of Muskie's 1963 law before the National Air Pollution Control Administration (NAP-CA) started its first abatement action...
...The Democratic National Committee is advising some youth groups on the selection of specific Congressional contests for special attention...
...The welfare director of Adams County, Mississippi, in an interview with Captains Hendrix and Goggin, "emphasized her benevolent attitude toward the 'poor colored' but indicated . . . that they lead morally disgusting lives and that her primary concern is to 'educate' them to proper forms of behavior...
...He believes there is still time to preserve property rights, so that a more orderly transition to control of air pollution would take place...
...We write before the Senate has reached a conclusive vote on the Cooper-Church amendment, which would bar further adventures in Cambodia...
...f In Brooklyn, New York, students from city schools were trying to defeat Representative John Rooney, a hawk, longtime party hack, and chairman of a powerful House Appropriations subcommittee...
...And the cause of labor has been weakened...
...Muskie's 1965 law was supposed to control auto emissions, which account for sixty per cent of the nation's air pollutants...
...Nixon's expanded war...
...Vice President, don't forget The Progressive the next time around...
...The findings were not encouraging: "Total hostility to the Administration among young people—just as strong among those who supported him during the campaign as those who opposed him," according to one member of the White House staff...
...it was won by Edward Patten, a House veteran who changed at the last minute from support of the Vietnam war to a "let's-end-it" position...
...The study was completed last January—and promptly suppressed by the White House...
...For the Panthers, therefore, the prime lesson of the Chicago affair is that they remain in constant, mortal danger...
...Now the Cambodians, too, know what it means to be on the receiving end of America's death-dealing high technology...
...Their chance of being able to raise and prevail on the many real legal and constitutional issues raised by the arrest and indictment would be smothered if political passion were allowed to dominate the scene of the trial...
...Aside from a certain smug superiority and an innate belief that they might be able to find a solution where more emotional and vociferous citizens had failed (these lawyers are accustomed to winning their cases), two factors distinguished the delegation: the spontaneity of the gathering and the intensity of the feeling...
...Its report marshals impressive evidence that the nation's health and welfare are being threatened as surely as by a rampaging plague...
...Newsweek June 8, 1970 Nader vs...
...The situation is critical, he said, and the Government must use its emergency powers to force polluters to stop...
...Federal food programs, the two captains said, are characterized by "absurdly low participation rates...
...Their signal was clear: their kind of protest was going to be difficult to ignore...
...He outlined his long, successful political career and said: "If you can do that without a spine, maybe that's even more tribute to my political astuteness...
...The former claim is still to be tested —though we have our own opinion, based on the many similar claims made when the war was escalated in the past...
...We have had to fight public apathy, industry resistance, and Presidential and Congressional reluctance to appropriate the necessary funds," the Senator said...
...To hear President Nixon tell it, however, Cambodia has no population...
...We plan to present our credentials by sending you this July issue of The Progressive which is loaded with "intellectual snobbery"—in these editorial pages, and in Jules Witcover's "Spiro Agnew: The Word's the Thing" on Page 14 and Erwin Knoll's "Shaping Up CBS: A Case Study in Intimidation" on Page 18...
...But there is also a possibility—increasingly strong —that the air may grow much worse, and not gradually, either...
...Muskie seeks smoother, more gradual changes...
...It is also one more inheritance from centuries of racial discrimination and oppression...
...Nader and Muskie are lawyers...
...Under hostile questioning from Eastern Establishment reporters, Nader insisted he bore no "animosity" toward Muskie, and indeed was "an admirer until the Senator lost all credibility in the Air Quality Act of 1967...
...These were men from the most conservative and proper firms, attorneys whose normal inclination is to shun the role of public persuasion for the less dramatic but more rewarding private conference in the board room...
...It comes, rather, from two Army officers—faculty members of the U.S...
...In Los Angeles County, California, only twenty-five per cent of the eligible poor were found to be receiving food stamps...
...At his press conference Muskie insisted NAPCA could go into production line testing, pulling every 1,000th or 10,000th car off the line to see if it measured up...
...They have done exactly what we have told them all along to do—they have come forward once more within the system...
...forces and "mopped up" by a lingering process of Vietnamization...
...Never in his fifty-six years as a lawyer had Warren seen such an aggregation of attorneys journey to Washington in a body to make known their political views to the Government...
...The Editors of The Progressive REPRINTS Reprints of Senator J. W. Ful-bright's article, "What Students Can Do for Peace," and Milton Mayer's article, "The Whelps," which appeared in our June issue, are now available in reprint form...
...Over the last several years," the Nader report notes, "Muskie has carved out a reputation as 'Mr...
...The official reason was a lack of cooperation by the Panthers—but since when does the process of justice depend on the participation of the aggrieved...
...But that is not the way NAPCA proceeded...
...More than one attorney described the reaction in the legal community as "electric...
...Hence no one was shocked to discover that when rental car fleets in Los Angeles and Detroit were tested in 1968-69, "more than one half of the cars tested failed to meet the Federal exhaust standards for hydrocarbon and carbon monoxide emissions," according to a May 11, 1970, letter from Robert H. Finch, the then Secretary of the Health, Education and Welfare Department, to Nader...
...You are inaugurating what I believe can become a rebirth of the tradition of active involvement by lawyers in pressing public problems," former Chief Justice Earl Warren told a thousand assembled members of the New York City bar association as they prepared to set out from Manhattan on a personal lobbying expedition to the Capital recently...
...He said he had criticized both the Johnson and Nixon Administrations and that all he was talking about was "the colossal failure of air pollution policy," which he laid in Muskie's lap...
...But when we flew into a fire base near the Cambodian 'Fishhook' later that day, we saw a crowd of approximately thirty people in a nearby village as we were landing, and a U.S...
...Then NAPCA, advised by local citizens, tells the states what kind of air would be ideal (ambient air standards) in those regions...
...The Foreign Relations Committee's consultants, James G. Lowenstein and Richard M. Moose, reported that "even some Vietnamese referred to the 'conquistador' complex of the ARVN, a complex that some feel may be reflected in a future preference on the part of the ARVN for fighting the North Vietnamese and Vietcong in Cambodia rather than in Vietnam...
...The states try to make plans to achieve the ideal air, consistent with Federal limits prescribed for emissions of thirty or so of the worst pollutants...
...When we begin to join the young in their new politics, we not only could change the system decisively for the better...
...By their mere presence, they were testifying that the war must end now—and that they were prepared to remain active until that objective is accomplished...
...Haynes Johnson (Mr...
...However great—or slight—their immediate influence might have been on the Senators, Representatives, and Administration officials they saw in Washington, their action represented a significant new direction for the antiwar forces...
...NOTES in the NEWS The Forgotten Cambodians One remarkable aspect of the Administration's carefully orchestrated campaign of "success" rhetoric about the Cambodian invasion is the almost total absence of reference to the Cambodians, whose land now bears the burden of being a theater of war...
...But it was not until November, 1969, that a Federal court ordered the plant to cease operations because of the interstate stench...
...they were voices of respectability...
...I sense," said Bernard Botein, former presiding justice of the New York Supreme Court's appellate division and the next New York City bar association president, "that in recent weeks since the Cambodian adventure and the killings and violence that followed, something momentous has been churning in the legal profession...
...Nader concluded from these findings that the Federal Government must act as it does against dangerous drugs offered to the public...
...They were not noisy young demonstrators, so easily dismissed in a Washington accustomed of late to massive protest processions...
...Pollution Control' in Congress...
...Recently HEW has gone to the trouble of making it seem that it does not have that power...
...many know about marginal districts and the politically alert do register where eligible...
...As so often happens in Washington, the issue soon was submerged in a clash of personalities...
...It would be tragic if the fact of American "withdrawal" from Cambodia were to ease the pressure for curbing the Administration...
...Muskie's view is less apocalyptic...
...f Strong medical links have been established between other respiratory diseases, heart disease, cancer, birth defects, and air pollution...
...The dispute was precipitated in May by the 523-page report of Nader's task force of law, engineering, science, and medical students...
...In Mendocino County, California, where some 4,000 residents have incomes below the Federal poverty line, only ten per cent received free food...
...Then the task force knocked the Senator off his pedestal...
...U Possibly because of a late start, students failed to nominate Lewis Ka-den, a twenty-eight-year-old peace candidate in a New Jersey Democratic primary...
...Res-ton also criticized students who came to the capital to drum up support for the Cooper-Church amendment to end the Cambodian invasion, but who had not registered to vote in the November elections themselves, and failed to get other peace advocates to register...
...Their ranks included senior partners as well as junior members...
...The Movement for a New Congress, with headquarters at Princeton University and branches on campuses in twenty-nine states, hopes to enlist 100,000 students as election workers with special concentration on ten Senate and fifty House races...
...That assault, and the awareness that police permitted it to occur, shook and sobered the men of the bar...
...Instead of shooting, the soldier winked at the demonstrators and let them pass...
...The Nader task force raises the question of whether Muskie's gradualism —and that of Congress and the Johnson and Nixon Administrations—has accomplished anything at all because of the way the nation's economic growth continues to outstrip efforts to control its undesirable effects...
...When a television reporter accused Nader of using "a political club" on Muskie, Nader demurred...
...In an excellent report to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, two staff consultants who visited Cambodia at the time of the American invasion reported: "U.S...
...These were not the familiar legal faces from the civil rights movement, the Joseph Rauhs of ADA and Jack Greenbergs of the NAACP, nor the figures on the fringes of the radical left, the William Kunstlers and Charles R. Garrys...
...Indeed, never in the lives of most of the lawyers could anyone have foreseen such a gathering...
...At his own packed press conference the next day, Muskie fired back...
...It was against a small chicken feed and fertilizer plant in Bishop, Maryland, several miles up-wind from Sel-byville, Delaware...
...Not the least of these is the sight of one of the strangest protest delegations ever to come to Washington...
...The youth movement is backing a young dove, Peter Eikenber-ry, against Rooney in the Democratic primary...
...The evidence includes: H Emphysema deaths in New York City have risen 500 per cent in the last decade...
...The grand jury report documents what the Panthers have long known and many of us have suspected—that it requires little pretext and no provocation for the forces of "law and order" to wage lethal warfare against black militants...
...As a private citizen I would also say, however, that doing anything to inflame the community would be the worst possible service to the defendants...
...For the police, the lesson is that next time they ought to try harder to rig the evidence and get their stories straight...
...Paper, unfortunately, isn't very nourishing...
...This superstructure provides work for several thousand bureaucrats but, as Nader pointed out, it has failed so far to cleanse any air...
...Muskie A nasty dispute has developed between consumer crusader Ralph Nader and Senator Edmund S. Muskie over the nation's air pollution policies...
...We may not qualify as "effete Eastern liberals," situated as we are in the heartland of Middle America...
...Military Academy at West Point—and it is all the more devastating when the source is taken into account...
...As a result, no matter who is elected in Texas in November, whether it is a conservative Democrat or conservative Republican, the forces that are moving the country to the right have been strengthened...
...He "has never seemed inclined, either politically or temperamentally, toward taking a tough stand against private industry...
...In many if not most of the contests for the Senate and House of Representatives this year, the outcome might be significantly affected by, say, fifty or 100 efficient precinct workers seeking support for their candidates on the weekends preceding either primaries or the general election...
...Please, Mr...
...As one lawyer from Tom Dewey's firm, Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood, said, and not without a touch of arrogance, "We're respectable...
...While student campaigners sought to develop political muscle out in the states, some student lobbyists for peace were not being as effective in Washington as they might have been...
...The way to find out if the auto makers are putting effective emission-control devices on their cars is to test the cars during production, and then after they have been driven many miles...
...All of us have a responsibility not only to the community but to these defendants and their families to do everything we can to see this does not happen...
...Nearly a score of other student groups have been organizing other large scale efforts to defeat hawks and elect doves to the next Congress...
...11 Quantities of pollutants being poured into the air are increasing and the 1963, 1965, and 1967 Federal laws have failed to curb these quantities...
...Two out of three of the voters who are registered in Texas did not even bother to vote [in the primary...
...They had been brought together, as Warren said, "on an issue which is shaking the foundations of American life—the war in Indochina...
...Compounding their feelings was the fresh example of how much rage has been unleashed in the country because of the endless Indochina war...
...Vice President: We are hurt...
...The results have been mixed: H Volunteers from the Berkeley campus succeeded in nominating for Congress a young Negro councilman, Ronald V. Dellums, in the Democratic primary over incumbent Representative Jeffery Cohelan, an able liberal who was opposed by some peace forces as not sufficiently dovish...
...God grant that the system will be worthy of them...
...With unwarranted caution, the grand jury concluded that "the performance of agencies of law enforcement, in this case at least, gives some reasonable basis for public doubt of their efficiency or even of their credibility...
...Francis T. P. Plimpton, an urbane Eastern figure who carries a mono-grammed umbrella as he makes his rounds, put it another way...
...Students with political savvy, and there are an increasing number of them, are doubtless working to correct the faults Reston cited...
...At the press conference where the task force report was made public, Nader—in his usual intense, humorless way—went right to the point: "The law is a fraud," he said...
...Nader would trample on those property rights...
...To be with the lawyers in New York and later in Washington was to sense how sharply the Cambodian adventure and its violent domestic aftermath had hit all segments of American society...
...Kingman Brewster President, Yale University Lawyers Lobby for Peace He knew the revolution was going to succeed, Leon Trotsky wrote, when he saw a Czarist soldier face a mass of demonstrators with a loaded weapon...
...Again and again, lawyers cited the attacks by New York construction workers on peace demonstrators in Wall Street as a further catalyst to their actions...
...officer commented: 'As far as I'm concerned, this area is really Vietnam extended west.' Thus, the matter of civilian casualties was not mentioned...
...The reason for attempting to muzzle the two officers became plain last month, when they were called to testify on their findings before the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, headed by Senator George McGovern of South Dakota...
...Plimpton, the present president of the New York City bar association, senior partner of a Park Avenue firm, and loyal Republican, said: "I don't know whether it was Talleyrand or Briand or Clemen-ceau who said, 'War is too important to be left to the generals.' I do know that war is too important to be left to the President of the United States...
...The logic that holds Cambodia to be merely "Vietnam extended west" could be applied by a desperate Administration to Laos, North Vietnam, even China...
...We feel that despite this geographical aberration, for which we are not responsible and over which we have no control, we have the right to at least tag along with the likes of I. F. Stone, Herblock, The New York Post, and The New Republic...
...We would like to get into the act when you lash out at "the liberal news media of the country," as you did again at a Texas Republican fund-raising dinner recently...
...Nader's task force contends that air pollution from industry and autos represents an immediate danger to huge numbers of Americans...
...They came from virtually every major Wall Street, Park Avenue, and mid-Manhattan law office—from Richard Nixon's and John N. Mitchell's old firm, from Thomas E. Dewey's, from Allen Dulles' former establishment...
...Muskie's 1967 law built an elaborate legal superstructure under which NAPCA first designates "air quality regions" in the nation's worst-polluted areas...
...Wall Street lawyers, representing the cream of the Establishment—pinstripes, portfolios, impeccable credentials—have joined the anti-war movement...
...Please, Mr...
...It is noteworthy, however, that despite its findings the grand jury handed down no indictments of the police...
...Justice for the Panthers The massive, 250-page report released a few weeks ago by the Federal grand jury that investigated the notorious Chicago police raid on a group of sleeping Black Panther Party members is likely to go down in the books as one of the more horribly revealing documents of our troubled time...
...They even dared to think they spoke with a voice of reason...
...For years, the agile international exertions of Prince Norodom Sihanouk preserved Cambodia from the death and destruction visited on its unhappy neighbors...
...One senior U.S...
...But there is no doubt that the war has been widened—and a strong likelihood that it will become wider still...
...Up to now, NAPCA has initiated just eleven abatement actions, and only the chicken-rendering plant action went beyond the talk stage...
...Not the least of the outrages perpetrated by the United States in Southeast Asia is the opening of Cambodia to its traditional enemies, the Vietnamese and Thais—an act of international insensitivity comparable to the Russians' dispatch of East German troops into Czechoslovakia in the summer of 1968...
...He needed the help of the union vote, but he didn't get it...
...A University of North Carolina professor, introducing students from his campus who were calling upon the North Carolina delegation in the House, put it this way: "They believe passionately that what we are doing in Vietnam, in Cambodia, in Laos, is un-American, unpatriotic, an offense against the basic principles which should give meaning to our country...
...operations in Cambodia as an invasion...
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