President Nixon's decision to send U. S. troops into Cambodia provoked a torrent of critical reactions in the Senate yesterday.

As "Operation Total Victory" proceeded smoothly on its first day of attacks on North Vietnamese strongholds in Cambodia, angry and frustrated Senators from both parties introduced legislation opposing the action-including a resolution censuring the President.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously requested a face-to-face meeting with Nixon "at his earliest convenience" to discuss the implications of the invasion. The formal request by the committee was the first such bid to a President since the debate over the League of Nations 51 years ago.

Nixon responded by calling meetings Tuesday with the House and Senate Armed Service committees and the Senate Foreign Relations and the House Foreign Affairs committees.

At Harvard a group of students circulated a petition in House dining halls asking Congress to impeach Nixon and withhold approval for military expenditures in Laos and Cambodia. Over 1000 students signed the petition, which will be circulated again today.

Sargent

At a meeting of New England governors in Boston yesterday, all but one indicated their opposition to Nixon's decision. Gov. Francis W. Sargent, who is running for re-election this fall, said he "felt it regrettable that the President felt the need to commit U. S. troops to Cambodia."

"I'm just afraid we're getting further and further into a quagmire and I don't know how we'll get out," he said.

Sen. J. William Fulbright (D. Ark.),

chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called the invasion "a substantial expansion of the war in Indochina" and said it was the committee's "constitutional responsibility" to discuss the decision with Nixon.

"I don't know of any legal authority for the President to take this action: not even as Commander-in-Chief does he have the right to engage in undeclared war in a neutral country," Fulbright said.

Sen. George D. Alken (R. Vt.), a supporter of Nixon's "Vietnamization" policy, echoed Fulbright's criticisms. "Apparently Cambodia is regarded not as a foreign country but as a no man's land-free for all." he said.

Hallucination

Sen. Stephen M. Young (D.-Ohio), criticizing the "hallucination of victory in Vietnam." introduced a resolution which would censure the President on the grounds that he had no legal or constitutional power to act in Cambodia.

And two other Senators-Frank Church (D.-Idaho) and John Sherman Cooper (R.-Ky.)-said they will present legislation which would bar the use of U. S. combat troops, military advisors, and arms in Cambodia.

Sen. Alan Cranston (D.-Calif.) said he will co-sponsor amendments to cut off funds for offensive military operations by American forces in all of Southeast Asia, including Cambodia and South Vietnam.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (I).-Mass? made one of the strongest attacks on the decision, calling it "madness." Speaking in Boston yesterday, he said that the President has fallen prey to the illusion that drove another from office-the illusion of an American military victory in Southeast Asia."