Word: cambodia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Weary but Ready. On Dr. Grain's trip, except for a two-day excursion into neighboring Cambodia, he had no time for sightseeing. He was kept busy day after day at the hospital. There were two native orthopedic surgeons to train and a ward teeming with patients, many of them mangled victims of Viet Nam's guerrilla war. The cases, Dr. Grain says, were fairly routine-muscle and nerve operations, bone grafts and other reconstructive procedures. But not the conditions. Flypaper hung over the operating table, amebic dysentery was rampant, and blood for transfusions was in short supply...
...most worrisome sign was the renewed shooting in Laos (see THE WORLD). A Communist takeover there, President Kennedy warned at his press conference, would "put additional pressure" on neighboring Thailand and South Viet Nam, as well as on neutralist, militarily feeble Cambodia...
...route which cuts through the Laotian thickets to Communist Viet Cong guerrillas in South Viet Nam, would open up, permitting the Reds to pour arms and men into that embattled land. Control of Laos' Mekong River valley would also give the Communists a highway for subversion of neighboring Cambodia and Thailand, which in turn would increase Red pressure on Burma and Malaya...
...EAST Burma 95.4 95.4 Cambodia 248.6 85.9 334.5 Nationalist China 2,051.6 2,376.7 4,428.3 Hong Kong 30.4 30.4 Indo-China Region 2 825.6 709.6 1,535.2 Indonesia 670.9 670.9 Japan 2,660.7 1,033.1 3,693.8 Korea 3,431.4 2,002.2 5,433.6 Laos 291.9 169.8 461.7 Malaya 23.2 23.2 Philippines 1,334.4 418.8 1,753.2 Thailand 336.1 417.8 753.9 Viet Nam 1,699.3 742.4 2,441.7 SEATO 1.8 1.8 Regional 41.9 461.1 503.0 $13,743.2 $8,417.3 $22,160.5 MIDDLE EAST & SOUTH ASIA Cyprus 16.9 16.9 Greece 1,784.8 1,602.8 3,387.6 Iran...
...bilateral negotiations over the Sino-Soviet rift and inviting Nikita Khrushchev to Peking. "The Communist movement has reached a critical juncture. The time has come when differences have to be settled." declared the Red Chinese, proposing that Russia's Premier stop off in Peking on the way to Cambodia, where a state visit by Khrushchev has been discussed for some time. Alternatively, suggested Mao. a Red Chinese delegation could go to Moscow to discuss the squabble...