Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Violent political demonstrations are a phenomenon that only rarely visit the drowsy, sylvan Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh. They have been directed against foreign embassies there only three times in memory-once against the British and twice against the Americans. Last week, six years to the day after Cambodian demonstrators attacked the American embassy in Phnom Penh to protest the U.S. presence in Southeast Asia, mobs once again rampaged through the city. This time, however, their targets were the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong embassies...
...France of a blood ailment. Sihanouk, who broke off relations with the U.S. over Viet Nam in 1965, has been executing a careful diplomatic turnaround since Washington began its withdrawal program. At the same time he has been voicing serious concern over the Communists' continued use of Cambodian territory as a base of operations...
...than the Prince's delicate balancing act permitted. With an estimated 40,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops in Sihanouk's country, many of them protecting the southern terminus of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, Hanoi is certain to be alarmed by any threat to its Cambodian sanctuary...
Presidential Pressure. The battle was an eight-week engagement involving the Special Forces camps of Bu Prang and Due Lap in the Central Highlands along the Cambodian border. At least eight battalions under the command of the ARVN 23rd division, which had failed twice in the past two years to repulse enemy attacks, fended off three seasoned North Vietnamese regiments, numbering about 5,000 men. Last week, as the Communists withdrew to base camps farther north in Cambodia...