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...increasingly dangerous U.S. airlift (by private airlines contracted by the U.S. Government), which has already cost more than $7 million for logistics alone, flies ammunition, petroleum and food from Thailand and South Viet Nam to the besieged capital. For the current fiscal year (ending June 30), U.S. military aid totals $275 million; almost all of it is exhausted. Since 1970, the U.S. has given Cambodia $1.8 billion in military and economic assistance. The Administration has requested $222 million in supplemental aid for this fiscal year to provide the government with bullets, artillery shells and bombs...
...government is going to have to drive the enemy far enough away to hold the airport. The airlift is essential. Forty or 50 planes a day may be puny compared with the Berlin airlift. Yet it seems to be working. If the airlift continues, Phnom-Penh will stand until the rainy season and the government will have won a respite. It will then get another chance to settle, to come up with a non-military solution...
...airport. Insurgents, dug in less than five miles from the airport, last week were shelling it with as many as 60 rocket and 105-mm. artillery rounds per day. One U.S. cargo DC-8 carrying rice from Saigon was hit by rocket fire. But after a brief halt, the airlift of food and ammunition continued...
...years of military attempts to assert its rule, is on the verge of collapse. Hundreds of thousands of refugees face the prospect of starvation in the coming weeks; troops still loyal to Lon Nol are disorganized and demoralized. The regime now rests on a single pillar; the daily American airlift of rice and ammunition into Phnom Penh. American experts and policy-makers are unanimous in their opinion that Phnom Penh would fall almost immediately to the Khmer Rouge without the airlift...
...money for the airlift is running out, and as Congress debates whether or not the United States should continue the bloody stalemate in Phnom Penh. President Ford--echoing Johnson and Nixon--has been telling Americans that Congress must approve his requested $250 million supplemental aid to "honor our commitments" so that Cambodia will not "fall" and to avoid the "bloodbath" he envisions if the Khmer Rouge enter the city. The Ford policy aims to preserve American credibility on the world treaty market and to place Ford in a position to castigate Congress whatever the outcome in Cambodia. The missing element...