Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wake of large-scale protest against the Cambodian intervention and the Kent State killings, Nixon on May 8 was going out of his way to stress the limited nature of the incursion. In the give-and-take of his press conference, Nixon overstated the certainty of South Vietnamese withdrawal and of the termination of U.S. support. The remark took some of his subordinates by surprise. The equivocations since then have been designed to retreat somewhat from that firm statement...
...explanation given privately in Washington last week stressed that the Administration, from the beginning of the Cambodian intervention, expected the South Vietnamese to be more adventurous than the U.S. At the same time, there was concern that Saigon's forces might be diverted on so large a scale as to damage the war effort in the main arena, South Viet Nam. So the U.S. really wanted the South Vietnamese to come out soon after the Americans if the military situation permitted -but it did not want the Communists to be too sure of that. One important motive behind Washington...
...after three weeks across the border. "They were throwing handfuls of Viet Cong money to the people from their trucks and armored personnel carriers as they came through town. They were sky-high." ARVN armored columns were blithely plunging 50 or more miles into Cambodia. Streaking across the Cambodian flatlands like so many pocket Pattons, they liberated towns and hurtled far beyond the range of their U.S. advisers, artillery and helicopter support. In addition to their impressive mileage, they rolled up some astounding (and probably inflated) body counts. ARVN and the U.S. claimed to have killed close...
...Cambodian high," as the phenomenon was beginning to be called, had a dramatic effect on ARVN morale. "When we went across the border," says President Nguyen Van Thieu, "I had almost every general in the country calling me on the phone, saying 'I want to go to Cambodia.'" Ordinarily, 600 ARVN troops would show up for a 4th Marine Battalion roll call in Saigon; last week, after word arrived that the 4th was headed for Cambodia, all 800 showed...
Over the past two years, efforts to improve ARVN have produced steady, gradual progress, though no one claims any miracles. Reports TIME'S Saigon Bureau Chief Marsh Clark, "Certainly compared with a ragtag Cambodian army and a Communist enemy that has been for the most part desperately eluding and evading, ARVN has taken on a new and refreshing look. But ARVN has changed only by comparison. By any measure, it has not suddenly changed from a marginally efficient overall force to a superarmy...