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Dissent
By JOHN HALL
■ WASHINGTON (UPI) -Vice
t President Spiro T. Agnew
predicts the decision to send
> U.S. troops into Cambodia will
evoke a new wave of dissent in
the United States—some of it
by self-seekers and enemies of
the republic who will act “in
the most criminal and repre
hensible manner.’’
Agnew gave his assessment
minutes after President Nixon
finished his nationwide address
Thursday night, as the first
dissent began descending on the
White House. Most of the
immediate reaction came from
Capitol Hill, and it was
packaged in some of the
strongest language uttered
since Nixon assumed the pres
idency.
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“Unbelievable,” said Sen.
Mark 0. Hatfield, R-Ore.
“A tragic mistake,” added
Sen. William D. Proxmire, D-
Wis.
“Ghastly,” said Sen. Charles
E. Goodell, R-N.Y.
“This is nothing less than a
massive escalation of the war,”
added Sen. Walter Mondale, D-
Minn.
Agnew told a dinner meeting
after the speech some critics
will respond “constructively
from their honest judgment,
that he (Nixon) erred.” But
these critics, he added, have
neither the information the
President has, nor his responsi
bility for foreign policy.
“And then there are those,”
Agnew said, “who will dissent
in the most criminal and
reprehensible fashion. This
element will feed on the
distaste for war to further its
U.S.Troops Push
Into Cambodia
Under Nixon Order
By WALTER WHITEHEAD
SAIGON (UPI)—At least
4,500 American troops pushed
into Cambodia today with
orders from President Nixon to
crush Viet Cong and North
Vietnamese sanctuaries in what
took on the appearance of a
classical World War 11-type
invasion.
The soldiers met light resis
tance. Field reports said 77
guerrilla troops were killed, all
of them by helicopter gunships
supporting the push; another
108 Viet Cong were captured.
One American was reported
wounded.
Wave upon wave of 852
bombers dropped 1,000 tons of
bombs on the Communist
positions, up to 20 miles inside
Cambodia, 150 fighter-bombers
own desire for power through
revolution.”
There was little immediate
reaction of the militant variety.
About 800 persons, mostly
college students, marched on
Independence Hall in Philadel
phia after the speech. One
student antiwar leader in
Washington claimed Nixon’s
actions in Cambodia have
“galvanized” the waning
protest movement.
Senate Republican Leader
Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania
called on Americans to withhold
their “emotional fire and to
trust the President who alone
has all the facts.” He stressed
that the entire Cambodian
campaign is “temporary.”
House GOP Leader Gerald R.
Ford called Nixon’s move “an
act of great statesmanship”
and said it “may be a great
opportunity to shorten the
war.”
swooped in low on bomb runs
and dozens of Long Tom guns
blazed away across the border
to soften up the target of the
tank-led troop advance.
An equal number of South
Vietnamese troops accompanied
the Americans of the Ist Air,
Cavalry Division and the 11th
Armored Cavalry into Cambo
dia in what was described as a
“hammer and anvil” operation
designed to smash the guerril
las caught in the middle.
The Allies crossed the border
at two points on the fishhook, a
curved portion of Cambodia
jutting into Vietnam 50 to 67
miles north of Saigon. White
House sources said the move
would take them as deep as 20
miles into Cambodia.
This first involvement of U.S.
combat units in Cambodia
followed by two days an
American-supported South Viet
namese push farther south into
a Cambodian area known as the
parrot’s beak which reaches to
within 35 miles of Saigon.
The South Vietnamese drive
into the parrot’s beak had
penetrated 35 miles into Cam
bodia by this morning, stopping
on the outskirts of Svay Rieng,
a province capital believed held
by the Viet Cong and North
Vietnamese.
Fighting was reported light
after two days of combat left
nearly 500 guerrillas and 46
government troops dead.
“Our purpose is not to occupy
the areas,” President Nixon
said in explaining the move to
the American public. “Once
enemy forces are driven out of
these sanctuaries and their
military supplies destroyed, we
will withdraw.”
Military sources said arma
das of giant 852 bombers went
in before the troops to soften up
the target area, believed to
contain the Viet Cong and
North Vietnamese headquarters
for the fighting in Vietnam and
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Decision Shows Vietnam Conflict
Can’t Be Settled In Isolation
By DANIEL RAPOPORT
WASHINGTON (UPI)-A key
Republican congressman prom
ised today the House would
have to stand up and be
counted next week on a |1
billion package of proposed cuts
in the defense budget.
But Rep. Otis G. Pike, D-
N.Y., a critic of military
spending who wants such a
record vote, indicated he was
suspicious of what Rep. Alvin
E. O’Konski, R-Wis., said he
intends to do.
Did Nixon Have
By GRANT DILLMAN
WASHINGTON (UPI) - As
President Nixon spoke to the
American people Thursday
night, he must have had in
mind his predecessor, Lyndon
B. Johnson.
Nixon conceded the political
Cambodia.
Other Stratoforts dumped at
least 900 tons of bombs on the
South Vietnam side of the
frontier in the fishhook region,
indicating the command’s fear
of significant resistance shaping
up there.
One of the other regions
involved is the parrot’s beak
west of Saigon, another finger
of Cambodia jutting into
Vietnam, where South Vietna
mese troops with U.S. support
began a cross-border drive
Wednesday.
As of late Thursday, the
Vietnamese operation in the
parrot’s beak was said to have
killed 445 Communist troops,
with government losses put at
46 killed and 214 wounded.
O’Konski, No. 2 Republican
on the House Armed Services
Committee, told a reporter that
next Wednesday, when the
House resumes debate on a
$20.2 billion weapons authoriza
tion bill, he would offer a
recommittal motion listing pro
posed reductions totaling just
over $1 billion.
House Republican leaders
wanted him to use the
recommittal to offer a motion
simply to kill the bill, which
even most critics don’t want to
the cause of peace and freedom
in Vietnam.
“I would rather be a one
term president and do what I
risks of sending U.S. troops into
Cambodia. But he said he
would rather be a one-term
president than serve two terms
“at the cost of seeing America
become a second-rate power.”
Exactly 25 months earlier,
Johnson told the American
people: “I have concluded that
I should not permit the
presidency to become involved
in the partisan divisions that
are developing in this political
year.. .accordingly, I shall not
seek, and I will not accept, the
nomination of my party for
another term as your pres
ident”
Until the Communists struck
in Cambodia, Nixon had hoped
his policy of gradual withdra
wal from Vietnam would be
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happen.
“But I couldn’t square that
with my conscience so they left
it pretty much up to me,” said
O’Konski.
O’Konski, a television execu
tive from Rhinelander, Wis.,
said he would propose reduc
tions of $550 million in research
and development, SIOO million
for a new manned bomber, S2OO
million for the Air Force CSA
transport, $25 million to begin
acquiring real estate for five
more antiballistic missile sites
Johnson In Mind?
enough to at least pacify those
desiring a speedy end to the
fighting and prevent it from
becoming a major issue next
November when the Republi
cans hope to capture Congress.
Whether this strategy can
succeed now depends on the
success or failure of Nixon’s
efforts to crush quickly the
Communist concentration in
Cambodia without provoking an
escalation of the fighting that
would touch off new antiwar
sentiment.
The Chief Executive noted
that “a Republican senator has
said that this action means my
party has lost all chance of
winning the November elec
tion.”
But, he said, “Whether my
party gains in November is
nothing compared to the lives
of 400,000 brave Americans
fighting for our country and for
and $152 million for starting
work on a nuclear-powered
aircraft carrier.
But Rep. Otis G. Pike, D-
N.Y., frequent critic of Penta
gonprocurement practices, said
he questioned whether a
recommittal motion would be
meaningful if it included
proposed cuts no one had
suggested in committee or on
the floor, such as in the carrier
funds.
Pike said he and his allies
would have to “wait and see”
whether they would go along
believe was right than to be a
two-term president at the cost
of seeing America become a
second-rate power and see this
nation accept the first defeat in
its proud 190-year history.”
Nixon also made clear he
hoped Americans would agree
with him on the need for firm
U.S. action to wipe out the
Communist sanctuary in Cam
bodia and not with those
Democratic and other critics
who foresaw a possible broad
ening of the war.
“It is customary in a speech
from the White House to ask
support for the president of the
United States,” he said. “To
night, what I ask for is far
more important. I ask for
support of our brave men
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through a difficult parliamenta
ry process to amend it.
Military spending opponents
feel the House would register a
much more substantial vote
against Pentagon budgets if
congressmen were required to
go on record for or against
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