Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Winding Up the Cambodian Hard Sell" [July 13], you accuse the President of trotting out the old theories and answers, but the questions posed by the networks' top reporters were so repetitious, unimaginative and plain boring that the answers necessarily plowed over old ground. The questions could easily have been far more incisive...
...Nixon was guilty of inflated rhetoric, it was not in equating the Cambodian campaign with D-day and Stalingrad, which he did not in fact do, but in referring to Sevareid, Chancellor and Smith as "historians." The real historian is, of course, Nixon, whose understanding of events and ease in explaining them are grapes hung too high for your foxes to grasp...
...element of the program not mentioned in Ladd's inventory is U.S. combat assistance from the air. American pilots have been observed flying spotter planes over Communist positions and directing Cambodian artillery fire by radio. Plane crews that want to fire at enemy targets themselves must radio their home bases in South Viet Nam or Thailand for permission; it is regularly given. The pilots are not anxious to talk about their role. Recently a reporter visiting a group of Cambodian officers at their headquarters overheard an American pilot's radio transmissions and asked to talk...
...failed to offer a convincing riposte to a Communist challenge that has been intensifying since Prince Norodom Sihanouk was ousted more than four months ago. Their reluctance was all too clear last week, when Sihanouk's successor, Premier Lon Nol, paid his first visit to Bangkok as Cambodian head of state. After months of pleading for immediate help from a government that is even more anti-Communist than his own, the best that he could get was a vague promise from Thai Premier Thanom Kittika-chorn that some 3,000 Thai troops would be going to Cambodia "around...
...military-aid program. More than half has been spent on ammunition and rifles for Cambodia's ill-equipped army, which at one point was posting guard teams to stand duty without weapons. U.S. funds have also been used to equip six battalions of Khmer Krom mercenaries (ethnic Cambodians from Viet Nam), provide much-needed radio communications, buy 40 military trucks and trailers, and send about 10,000 Cambodian troops to Thailand and South Viet Nam for military training. Says Jonathan (Fred) Ladd, 49, a former Green Beret colonel who was called out of retirement to oversee arms...