Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looking for the buses, the gaudy red, yellow and blue buses in which the Cambodian army rides off to fight and sometimes die. When you see the empty buses parked by the side of the road, their drivers sleeping in their shade, you know that you should stop. Ahead is the battle...
There were two of them, both with Chinese-made AK-47s. They looked Cambodian. I waved and drove past. They waved back. Seconds later, their costumes registered: they were dressed in black, and their helmets were camouflaged with leaves and small branches. They seemed as surprised to see me as I was to see them. They might run. I turned the car and started slowly back down the road. Then, 300 yards away, the soldiers appeared again, this time out on the road itself, signaling that I stop. I pulled off the road. They came, guns at the ready...
...South Viet Nam: Clearly the most important, if not the trickiest stop Agnew will make, it is intended to reinforce Nixon's pledge to the Thieu government and also to provide Nixon with a fresh assessment of the progress of Vietnamization since the Cambodian invasion...
...million earlier commitment. The antiwar faction in the Senate was angry but powerless to act, because the Administration can use funds already appropriated. In Cambodia itself, Communist forces ranged within a few miles of Phnom-Penh, but U.S. analysts believe that the enemy was not preparing to attack the Cambodian capital. South Vietnamese units, meanwhile, continued their operations aimed at securing strategic points...
...Nixon Administration has pledged not to send U.S. ground troops into Cambodia again, and the Cooper-Church Amendment, which passed the Senate in June, would specifically prohibit direct U.S. air support to Cambodian troops. But near the embattled town of Skoun last week, an Associated Press reporter watched a Cambodian officer request-and get-an air strike by American F-100s, whose bombs landed a scant 300 yds. from the Cambodian positions. In Washington, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird parried the inevitable inquiries about the U.S. air support with an exercise in semantics. The U.S. pilots were not providing "air support...