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...cost more than $7 million for logistics alone, flies ammunition, petroleum and food from Thailand and South Viet Nam to the besieged capital. For the current fiscal year (ending June 30), U.S. military aid totals $275 million; almost all of it is exhausted. Since 1970, the U.S. has given Cambodia $1.8 billion in military and economic assistance. The Administration has requested $222 million in supplemental aid for this fiscal year to provide the government with bullets, artillery shells and bombs...
...floods also ended their dry-season offensive. By fall, the rebels will have replenished their stockpiles and will be rested and ready for a new campaign against the capital. Thus, opponents of U.S. aid can plausibly argue that sending more supplies will not lead to negotiations but merely prolong Cambodia's agony...
...worry about continued U.S. assistance to South Viet Nam. It is also possible that arms and ammunition now going to the Khmer insurgents would be redirected to the Communist forces fighting Saigon. Militarily, not much else would be changed, since the North Vietnamese have been using sanctuaries in Cambodia with impunity for several years...
...commitment to South Viet Nam different from that to Cambodia...
With both Viet Nams under Communist control, Laos and Cambodia would probably be doomed to becoming satellites of the Vietnamese. Other nations of the region would have to make some accommodations with the powerful Vietnamese, like adopting a more neutral foreign policy. There seems little evidence, however, to substantiate fears that Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines would fall to the Communists like dominoes. In Thailand, the small insurgency movement might gain at least moral support from new Communist governments in the region; but Bangkok would probably try to prevent that by moving quickly to improve its relations with Peking...