Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appropriated. Representing a bewildering variety of firms, he is offering a wide range of items. Among them are cement, plywood, air-conditioners, industrial chemicals, cranes, bulldozers, trucks, troop-carrying vehicles, evaporated milk, 30 ton generators capable of lighting a village, and enough canned food to feed the entire Cambodian army...
...affable and soft-spoken man, Severs explains that he has spent most of the last month making contacts within the Cambodian government. He new eats and drinks regularly with several high-ranking officials within the Department of Foreign and Economic Affairs. He is counting on these individuals to award him contracts once the aid is given the Cambodian government...
...night of Dec. 11, a force of as many as 3,000 Communist soldiers struck at Prey Totung. They quickly seized the center of town and drove the 400 Cambodian soldiers there into the schoolyard, where they remained, surrounded and cut off, for five days. "Most of the time we could not even lift our heads," says Lieut. Colonel Srey Yar, the competent young local commander...
Total Damage. The Cambodian achievement was in holding out. The siege was broken by repeated U.S.-South Vietnamese air strikes that sent at least half a dozen 500-lb. bombs into the center of the town and splattered the area with scores of antipersonnel bombs and huge quantities of napalm. Hardly a building in the town's center was spared major damage...
Four days after the battle ended, Cambodian and South Vietnamese columns finally succeeded in reopening Route Seven between Kompong Cham and Skoun, which had been cut by enemy activity for six weeks. But the Cambodians expected the fighting to continue in the area for the duration of the dry season. In the case of Prey Totung itself, however, there was not much left to fight for. "The Cambodians once again had demonstrated great courage," sadly concludes Correspondent Cloud, "but the town had been destroyed. One wondered: Who wins in the long...