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That news, if true, can only mean more terror for the two million residents of Phnom Penh. Since 1971--when Nixon decided to send American troops on an "incursion" into Cambodia to break NLF supply lines to South Vietnam--Cambodia has been sliding deeper into war. The struggle there between the Khmer Rouge revolutionaries and the troops of the Lon Nol regime has reached a crisis. The Khmer Rouge have the capital city surrounded, with all land and water approaches cut off and they are shelling the city now from an four sides. According to reports in the western media...
...worst battles of the war, Communist-led Khmer insurgents pounded the Cambodian capital of Phnom-Penh with artillery and rocket fire for seven straight weeks. Somehow the city survived. Last week, it was once again hunkering down for another brutal assault. The insurgent forces, who now control most of Cambodia outside the major cities, are currently concentrating their attacks on Neak Luong, a small but vital Mekong River shipping channel 32 miles southeast of the capital. But there are daily rocket attacks in and around Phnom-Penh, and it is only a matter of time, perhaps days, before the full...
...Viet Nam's war is an endless litany of abstract events that one believes but never sees, Cambodia's five-year war is an immediate, palpable, personal experience. Take a left Urn at the airport, and five kilometers later you are right at the front lines, where government T-28s drop cluster bombs, gunships fire rockets, and miniguns and 105s endlessly pound away at Communist positions just northwest of the city...
...praise of youth (who in turn greeted the book with the immortal tribute "Oh, wow!"), made many readers wonder if the magazine had suffered a touch of sclerosis. The frontispiece, "Talk of the Town," turned suddenly from boutique prattle to sometimes perceptive, some times ponderous essays about Nixon, Watergate, Cambodia, Agnew or poli tics in general. The New Yorker's sol emn discovery of causes was often over bearing and relentless. Indeed, Critic Philip Nobile, in his journalistic study Intellectual Skywriting, found the mag azine a prime exemplar of radical chic...
...never be returned as long as the U.S. continued to prop up the Lon Nol government. Others were less political; Louise Stone -wife of Freelance Photographer Dana Stone, who was on assignment for CBS News-announced that she is preparing her own mission on foot through the area in Cambodia where her husband was last seen...