The World: More Revelations on Bombing

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> U.S. troops were operating on the ground in Cambodia and Laos as early as 1966 and continued until at least April 1972. In 1971, testified former Sergeant Thomas J. Marzullo, "at the time the President said there were no Americans in Laos, we had two teams of men inserted on the ground."

At the same time that the committee was hearing new revelations of secret U.S. military activities, critics were energetically trying—and failing—to get the U.S. bombing of Cambodia declared illegal. In Boston, Federal Judge Joseph Tauro dismissed an anti-bombing suit brought by four Congressmen on the ground that the court had no jurisdiction. Similarly, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City overturned a lower judge's ruling of July 25 that the bombing was "unauthorized and unlawful" and must be stopped. That suit had been brought by Representative Elizabeth Holtzman and four Air Force officers. Last week Chief Justice Warren Burger refused to call a special session of the Supreme Court to hear the case, meaning that the bombing could continue until the Tuesday-midnight deadline.