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...alleged border violations, Sihanouk conveniently ignores the use of Cambodia for transit, resupply and sanctuary by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops. It was thus all the more odd when the prince, in a rambling speech last week, complained that Communist bands were shooting up villages in Battambang Province in northwest Cambodia, far from the Viet Nam border...
...absolutely do not want a reconciliation." None was likely to be offered soon, since Sihanouk, as usual, said nothing about the two North Vietnamese divisions and countless Viet Cong in his eastern provinces. At week's end, though, he announced that 48 Communists had been captured in Battambang Province...
...even the 30,000-man army frequently go without pay. Air conditioners in most of the capital's sticky offices are turned on only when important visitors arrive. Roadways are falling apart, but when Sihanouk recently ordered a load limit of eight tons on the vital Pnompenh-Battambang Highway, he had to rescind the decree. Shell Oil, which supplies Battambang with all its oil and gasoline, pointed out that its tank trucks weigh six tons empty, and without them the town would soon be unable to operate its electric plants, trucks and cars...