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...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," joked Lieut. General Do Cao Tri, the ARVN boss in the Parrot's Beak sanctuary, "because one of these days they're going to lose all their weapons to the Viet Cong." Said another South Vietnamese officer: "The Cambodians are good people, but they have been asleep too long. They need help and more military training. Even their uniforms do not match...
WITH unexpected rapidity, U.S. and South Vietnamese forces opened new fronts along the Cambodian border last week. Initially, the drive against the Communist sanctuaries involved 20,000 allied troops operating in two areas, the Parrot's Beak and Fishhook havens northwest of Saigon. By week's end, as half a dozen new task forces were hurled into the border war, the sweeps had spread south as far as the Mekong River and north to the highlands near the Laotian border. What started as a two-front foray was now a campaign engaging 40,000 troops along 600 miles...
...launched last week, the two most important were aimed at areas from which North Vietnamese and Viet Cong regulars have long ventured forth to terrorize key positions in South Viet Nam. The two: OPERATION BOLD LANCER, directed at Base Area 354, between the Fishhook and the Parrot's Beak. The area has long been home for one of the most destructive of all Communist units, the crack 95C Regiment of the North Vietnamese Army, which has made life miserable for the allies in War Zone C in Tay Ninh province. Base Area 354 has also served as headquarters...
...action," 20,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops were across the Cambodian border and deep into a suddenly wider war. The day before the President went on the air, an 8,700-man South Vietnamese force accompanied by 50 American advisers had plunged into the Parrot's Beak. The next morning, barely two hours before Nixon was to begin his speech, an 11,500-man task force, spearheaded by 2,000 troopers of the U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division (Airmobile) helicoptered into the Fishhook...
...into suspected enemy positions. The ground trembled as flights of as many as 35 huge B-52s roared over the sanctuaries again and again, dumping more than 2,000,000 Ibs. of bombs. The columns of South Vietnamese tanks and armored cars that tore into the Parrot's Beak suggested the lumbering search-and-destroy operations that proved of questionable value in the jungles of Viet Nam. But on the dry plains of Cambodia, where long plumes of dust rose behind the speeding armor, conditions were ideal...