Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Lon Nol-who up to now has said that he wants no assistance from outside forces -becomes so desperate that he asks for U.S. troops? To refuse might topple a potential ally and leave the field to Hanoi, which already has a forceful presence along the Cambodian border with South Viet Nam. But to comply would violate the Nixon Doctrine, enunciated by the President on Guam last July, that the U.S. from then on would avoid military commitments that might lead to ground-combat interventions similar to Viet...
...death. To keep the demonstrations from spreading to the capital, the government sent tanks to seal off roads leading to Phnom-Penh, closed Pochentong Airport and imposed a 6 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew. More ominously, Acting Head of State Cheng Heng charged that Viet Cong forces on Cambodian soil "have begun actions against the Cambodian people and our soldiers" near the border, and Prince Sirik Matak warned that an attack by thousands of Communist troops "could not be ruled out." There were reports that several thousand Communist troops had entered the country to foment trouble, and the new government...
...Army Affair. An equally serious difficulty was the Communist Vietnamese military presence. Before Sihanouk's fall, Lon Nol called on the Communists to evacuate their Cambodian sanctuaries immediately. That demand was not emphasized publicly after the takeover. Nonetheless, Sirik Matak told TIME Correspondent Burton Pines in Phnom-Penh that getting rid of the Communist forces remained a primary goal. "We demand that they immediately leave our territory," the prince said. "Sihanouk violated his own-and our-proclaimed policy of neutralism by permitting the Vietnamese foreigners to stay inside Cambodia. We cannot tolerate it. We have every expectation that this...
Though a new Communist Pathet Lao peace plan was delivered to Prince Souvanna Phouma, the neutralist but Western-leaning Premier of Laos, he decided to defer a decision until the Cambodian situation settles down. In any case, the prospect that anything solid may emerge from the Pathet Lao plan is slight. As a precondition, the Communists insist that American planes halt their bombing in Laos. U.S. officials have indicated that the bombing will not stop, even at Souvanna's request. As Secretary of State William Rogers noted last week: "If North Viet Nam continues...
Sihanouk heard of his overthrow from Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in Moscow. At first he took the news calmly. A few hours later, just before flying off to Peking for talks with Premier Chou Enlai, he told Cambodian students at Vnukovo II Airport that he might establish an exile government in Moscow or Peking. Earlier, he had sent off a cable to his mother quoting Kosygin as having said: "If the extreme right continues to strike foul blows on our allies, war is inevitable between Cambodia and Viet...