Word: beak
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...operations begun Wednesday in the "Parrot's Beak" region of southern Cambodia-described by Nixon as "exclusively South Vietnamese ground operations, under South Vietnamese command. with the United States providing air and logistical support"-will continue Nixon did not commit troops to the central area of Cambodia, which is also involved in conflict...
Seeking to consolidate authority in their all-important sanctuaries leading to South Viet Nam, Communist forces last week closed in on two key border cities. In the "parrot's beak" area jutting into South Viet Nam, they surrounded Svay Rieng Ville on three sides. Moreover, they moved to within striking distance of the Mekong River ferry linking Svay Rieng with Phnom-Penh, leading some observers to speculate that they hoped to lure a large defense force across the river and trap it there. To the south, a combined force of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops advanced...
...conflict is at its height along the crumbling eastern border. In Svay Rieng province, which forms the "parrot's beak" that juts into South Viet Nam and has served as one of the most important of all Communist sanctuaries, government troops were driven from Chi Phou. That gave the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong control of five of Svay Rieng province's six districts. They already dominate much of the eastern border provinces of Kratie and Kompong Cham. Some Cambodians fear, in fact, that the Communists are determined to control all the territory east of the Mekong River...
Sean Flynn arrived in Cambodia on April 2, on assignment for TIME. The next day he joined TIME Correspondent Burton Pines in a rented car headed for Parrot's Beak, a jut of Cambodia that cuts into South Viet Nam about 40 miles west of Saigon. Pines reports: "In one village, where the V.C. had burned a district office that Sean wanted to photograph, we two Americans created quite a commotion. Sean, especially, fascinated them. Six feet tall, strikingly handsome, with long blond hair almost to his shoulders, he wore only sandals, khaki shorts, a white pullover and love...