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■ The first poll on the Mayaguez affair (Decision Research Corporation) found 75 per cent of the people in favor of sending in the Marines “when we did,” 15 per cent in favor of further negotiations, only 4 per cent against the President’s action. . . . Among the 4 per cent: Democratic Senators Edward Kennedy, Henry Jackson, and George McGovern. Kennedy was glad they got out but doubtful about the means used; Jackson said first that “[he hoped] we were not going down the same road we followed in the Tonkin Gulf record of 1964,” but later —after the success of the mission —gave Gerald Ford “high marks.” McGovern, first quoted in the Washington Post as approving the exercise, demanded a correction the following day and said that though gratified the crew had been rescued, the action “was not in keeping with the maturity of a great nation.” . . . Evans & Novak, commenting on criticism of leading Democrats even after success of mission. felt it “illustrates that the [Democratic] Party remains out of touch with the electorate.” . . . Pueblo Commander Lloyd Bucher doubted that “we would have ever seen a Mayaguez incident” had Lyndon Johnson handled the Pueblo incident in the same way. . . . In London, Concerned Americans Abroad indicated their disapproval of Ford’s “naked aggression” by staging a guided walk through Mayfair, pointing out to the press the homes of alleged CIA employees.

■ Interesting interview by Richard Holbrooke, managing editor of Foreign Affairs, with PLO leaders in Beirut, reveals that Yassir Arafat had observers in Hanoi during final weeks of Vietnam War; and that they are preparing a report on U.S. strengths and failures there and its “application to liberation movements everywhere”—and obviously particularly in the Middle East. . . . The South Korean National Assembly has passed a resolution asking for additional U.S. aid immediately as a demonstration to a possibly restive North Korea that the U.S. intends to stand by its treaty obligations to Seoul. . . . The European press is starting to call Cambodia “the Albania of Southeast Asia,” given the draconian measures now being taken there by the Khmer Rouge. Not the least of which, according to a Royal Khmer Government report, has been the execution of two former Cambodian premiers, Long Boret and Sirik Matak, who refused to desert their people when offered a ride out in a U.S. helicopter. . . . At New York City “Vietnam Victory” celebration, Russell Means of the American Indian Movement charged that the same U.S. “war machine [had been] responsible for the massacres at Mylai and Wounded Knee.”

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■ The first poll on the Mayaguez affair (Decision Research Corporation) found 75 per cent of the people in favor of sending in the Marines “when we did,” 15 per cent in favor of further negotiations, only 4 per cent against the President’s action. . . . Among the 4 per cent: Democratic Senators Edward Kennedy, Henry Jackson, and George McGovern. Kennedy was glad they got out but doubtful about the means used; Jackson said first that “[he hoped] we were not going down the same road we followed in the Tonkin Gulf record of 1964,” but later —after the success of the mission —gave Gerald Ford “high marks.” McGovern, first quoted in the Washington Post as approving the exercise, demanded a correction the following day and said that though gratified the crew had been rescued, the action “was not in keeping with the maturity of a great nation.” . . . Evans & Novak, commenting on criticism of leading Democrats even after success of mission. felt it “illustrates that the [Democratic] Party remains out of touch with the electorate.” . . . Pueblo Commander Lloyd Bucher doubted that “we would have ever seen a Mayaguez incident” had Lyndon Johnson handled the Pueblo incident in the same way. . . . In London, Concerned Americans Abroad indicated their disapproval of Ford’s “naked aggression” by staging a guided walk through Mayfair, pointing out to the press the homes of alleged CIA employees.

■ Interesting interview by Richard Holbrooke, managing editor of Foreign Affairs, with PLO leaders in Beirut, reveals that Yassir Arafat had observers in Hanoi during final weeks of Vietnam War; and that they are preparing a report on U.S. strengths and failures there and its “application to liberation movements everywhere”—and obviously particularly in the Middle East. . . . The South Korean National Assembly has passed a resolution asking for additional U.S. aid immediately as a demonstration to a possibly restive North Korea that the U.S. intends to stand by its treaty obligations to Seoul. . . . The European press is starting to call Cambodia “the Albania of Southeast Asia,” given the draconian measures now being taken there by the Khmer Rouge. Not the least of which, according to a Royal Khmer Government report, has been the execution of two former Cambodian premiers, Long Boret and Sirik Matak, who refused to desert their people when offered a ride out in a U.S. helicopter. . . . At New York City “Vietnam Victory” celebration, Russell Means of the American Indian Movement charged that the same U.S. “war machine [had been] responsible for the massacres at Mylai and Wounded Knee.”