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Night after night, hundreds of B-52s and fighter-bombers from Guam and Thailand streaked across Cambodia to drop their enormous loads (up to 3,000 tons every 24 hours), sometimes striking to within 14 miles of the capital. The effectiveness of this massive effort could not be judged, since U.S. announcements have been deliberately vague, and Western journalists are unable to venture far enough from the capital these days to inspect the damaged areas...
...time, when the Viet Nam truce was being worked out, U.S. officials expected that a de facto ceasefire in neighboring Cambodia would emerge by the end of March. Now it appears that the fitful Cambodian war -and the bombing there by U.S. B-52s -could easily drag on through the year. One reason is that Hanoi does not control all of the antigovernment forces; they include sizable numbers of homegrown neutralists and Khmer Rouge Communists, as well as the estimated 36,000 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops who are supposed to be withdrawn eventually under the terms...
...true that the Viet Cong had received advance word on B-52 strikes, as some have claimed? Tra laughed. "We lived in the jungle and we knew the country and the leaves and the grass," he said. But what about the B-52s above? "We also knew our sky," he boasted. "We even knew the schedule of their flights. We had the support of the local people, and they told us the things we needed to know...
...after the nation bled $135 billion from its treasure and suffered a psychic dislocation as severe as any since the Civil War, the President would ask taxpayers for billions of dollars more. Much of it would go as a transfusion for the people and the regime that U.S. B-52s were bombing just a few weeks ago at Christmastime...
...deal can be struck in Laos - and Kissinger was pressing for it - a ceasefire could come as early as this week. In anticipation of that, the Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese troops made last-minute pushes to grab more territory-and the U.S. responded with repeated raids by B-52s and fighter-bombers...