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...Operation Total Victory 42," as it was labeled, was launched against the Parrot's Beak during the night of April 28. American and South Vietnamese forces pushed forward into the Fishhook area at 7:30 a.m. Saigon time on May 1. The same day Nixon visited the National Military Command Center at the Pentagon and-on the spur of the moment-ordered what he had long been considering, an incursion into all other base areas. Twelve enemy base areas were attacked in the first three weeks...
...indecisiveness, symbolizes Mexico. Fuentes makes him a converted Jew both to emphasize his transformations and his antipathy towards the Arab world. His impotency over his own life is analogous to Mexico's lack of independence in the international scene. Just as Mexico is "in the grips of the beak of the U.S. and Russia", Maldonado is manipulated by absent foreign officials. Oil, the "hydra head of our passions," forces Mexico, the U.S. and the Arab world to assume different alliances in the same manner that Maldonado constantly readjusts his relations with other characters...
...decisive onslaught against Phnom-Penh was in sharp contrast to a round of skirmishing centered in the Parrot's Beak border area a year ago. In that fighting, Vietnamese forces attempted to halt Khmer Rouge raids across the border. But the Vietnamese were battered by the tough Khmer. Vietnamese armor, which was sent to harass the Khmer, ran out of gas and had to be rescued by Vietnamese airmen flying captured American planes...
...almost a replay of Viet Nam's invasion of Cambodia a year ago. That was a punitive measure, aimed at subduing Cambodian terrorist activity in the Parrot's Beak salient and other border areas, and was eventually repulsed (see map). This time it was clear that Hanoi was determined to overrun the entire country, and it was eagerly cheered on by Moscow, which is supplying most of the arms and advice. Tass, which had praised the Pol Pot regime as recently as October 1977, last week excoriated it by quoting at length from Western publications critical of Cambodia...
...Phim, a disaffected former Vice President of Democratic Kampuchea. The Vietnamese already occupy large areas of the so-called Fishhook region south of Mondolkiri province and a strategic bulge of Cambodia from Cheom Ksan to the Mekong River. They are now fighting for control of Parrot's Beak, where the U.S. invaded in 1970 (see map). Vietnamese troops are massing in Laos, near the Cambodian frontier. When the monsoon ends in October, clearing skies will make air support possible for a major Vietnamese push south from Laos and north from South Viet Nam. If that offensive takes place, most military...