Word: arvn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Saigon is openly jubilant over the situation. Its troops were already ranging far and wide in Cambodia, where its total strength jumped last week from 21,000 troops to more than 40,000, the equivalent of 31 divisions. One ARVN (Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) marine unit was actually within three miles of Phnom-Penh, the Cambodian capital, while tank units sped across the Cambodian countryside, seizing Communist-held towns. Acting more like conquerors than allies, ARVN soldiers often treated Phnom-Penh's troops with condescension and even contempt. "I'm thinking of disarming the Cambodians...
...some 5,500 G.I.s were withdrawn from operations in Cambodia, 2,000 ARVN (for Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) troops launched Operation Pacify West Two, the tenth thrust to date against Communist base areas. Elsewhere, the new war reached far beyond the sanctuaries. In the Gulf of Siam, U.S. and South Vietnamese patrol craft extended their coastal quarantine to a 70-mile stretch of the Cambodian coastline. At Neak Luong, South Vietnamese Marines and heliborne troops recaptured the vital Mekong River ferry crossing in a battle that left 139 Communists dead. Farther up the Mekong, North Vietnamese...
...have no deadline," said President Nguyen Van Thieu. And, he added, his troops would enter Cambodia "again and again, if necessary." Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky was equally outspoken. Resplendent in black flying suit and purple scarf, Ky helicoptered into Neak Luong and told newsmen that ARVN troops would remain in Cambodia for "at least months." When the Cambodians "can fight the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong by themselves, we will go home," said Ky, sounding like a U.S. general discussing Vietnamization...
...Rogers stated flatly that the U.S. would not "become involved militarily in support of any Cambodian government." Evidently, Saigon intends to take on that task. Vice President Ky said last week that South Viet Nam is building a string of eleven airfields on the Cambodian border to provide ARVN with its own air support...
...Vietnamese from going too far. At present, Saigon has only 21,000 men in Cambodia, the equivalent of two divisions (the U.S. still has 14,000). By spoiling the sanctuaries, it is argued in Saigon and Washington, the Cambodian venture has bought time for Vietnamization. It has also boosted ARVN's morale...