Word: cambodia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambodian Premier Son Ngoc Thanh, the Khmer Serei claims that it has 10,000 troops sprinkled throughout the steaming Cambodian jungles and the Dangrek Range, with a main force at Stung Treng near southern Laos (see map). On New Year's Eve the group's Radio Free Cambodia declared war on Sihanouk "to free Cambodia from his suicidal policies"; a few hours later Khmer Serei groups raided four Cambodian military forts, capturing some Chinese arms and killing 28 of Sihanouk's men. In another reported attack, 200 rebels stormed a government outpost, left eight dead and nine...
...long suspected that a branch of the Communist "underground railroad"-the Ho Chi Minh trail-cut through Cambodia. But proof was hard to obtain: so wild and enemy-infested is the Viet Nam side of the Cambodian border that no allied troops had ventured to the border since the French left...
...Cambodia's tubby Prince Norodom Sihanouk was like a man trapped in a revolving door. At the Viet Nam border there was the U.S.'s 1st Air Cavalry, threatening to pursue the enemy across the Cambodian frontier (see South Viet Nam). To the west, Sihanouk's troops were trading sporadic fire with Thailand. And within the Prince's own uneasy kingdom, there was steadily mounting opposition to his erratic and autocratic rule...
...supporters and opened up with mortars and machine guns on the small Thai frontier village of Haadlek. "We have been armed, morally and militarily," Sihanouk warned, "to confront at all times and victoriously the attacks from these despicable mercenaries. We will show no mercy." Thailand denied the attacks, calling Cambodia's own action an attempt to "provoke us into an unwise incident. We will not be drawn into any foolish move...
...Reds to check out intelligence reports that seven and possibly nine 2,000-man regiments were assembling in the highlands. "I gave them their head," recalls Westmoreland, "and told them their mission was to pursue and destroy the enemy." In the foothills of the Chu Pong massif, practically in Cambodia's backyard, the brigade found its quarry. Helilifted to a spot called Landing Zone X Ray, a battalion of cavalrymen found itself smack in the midst of the 66th North Vietnamese regiment. One platoon was cut off on a ridge and badly mauled. Two others were lured into...