Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often earlier in the long war, the Cambodian decision has set in motion a secondary chain reaction in the U.S. For Richard Nixon, that reaction must seem a negative and not fully foreseen outcome. It has cost him credibility with the people, aroused and angered the Congress and surely limited his future choices in Indochina. Still, by demonstrating to the President the fragility of American public opinion about the war and the deep weariness of the U.S. with any course that does not lead the troops home, the invasion of Cambodia may well, by limiting Nixon's options, ultimately...
BARBED wire is going up in lovely Phnom-Penh. Like tentacles from the war ravaging the countryside, the prickly wire now surrounds most important government buildings. Sandbag bunkers, usually occupied by young boys or girls proudly fingering loaded U.S. carbines, dot the streets. Cambodian officers strut about with pistols hoistered on their hips...
...Reporters stride through the quiet, tree-shaded boulevards for a rendezvous with the diplomats-the Australians and French, Russians and Americans, Israelis and Vietnamese. They meet in restaurants like the Café de Paris and Venice, and over rich red wine and Chateaubriand, served silently by white-coated Cambodian waiters, diplomats and reporters trade information. No one has the whole story. In Phnom-Penh, everyone is a gatherer of bits and pieces of information. "Did you hear?" the reporter asks, and then delivers a nugget of information to the diplomat. The diplomat reciprocates. They go their separate ways to another...
...battle with the Communists. Phnom-Penh, once the most carefree capital in Southeast Asia, was filled with grim and eerie rumors (see box). Throughout the countryside, the fighting was somewhat less intense than usual. Scattered clashes were reported at several strategic points within 35 miles of Phnom-Penh. Cambodian soldiers found a 122-mm. Communist rocket in a town retaken from Communist soldiers only 14 miles north of Phnom-Penh, the closest to the capital that such long-range weapons have been discovered. At week's end some 8,000 civilians and more than a battalion of Cambodian troops...
...government of Premier Lon Nol, under increasing pressure from the harder-lining elements in the National Assembly to strengthen the war effort, declared national mobilization. A decree ordered every Cambodian man and woman between the ages of 18 and 60 to aid the national defense and made all property subject to confiscation. It will probably be many months before Cambodia's swollen army of some 120,000 men-only half of whom have even been issued weapons -can absorb new recruits. Moreover, the nation needs its citizens for productive labor almost as desperately as it needs them for fighting...