The American Jewish Congress today called on the United States to withdraw its forces from Cambodia and the Soviet Union to send its troops home from Egypt. “We urge both nations to refrain from such reckless military adventures,” the Congress declared in a statement adopted by its national executive committee. “It is ironically true that our conduct in Southeast Asia parallels the unjustifiable conduct of the Soviet Union in the Middle East,” the statement declared, adding: the U.S. is participating “in an immoral war that has been a political, economic and military disaster for our country and compounding the continuing injustices at home represented by our unsolved domestic problems of poverty and unrest.”
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