Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dudman, 60, and Becker, 31, were experienced reporters who had covered the Indochina war in both Viet Nam and Cambodia for extended periods. Their 1,000-mile trip through eleven of Cambodia's 19 provinces was clearly an attempt by the Cambodian regime to counteract its worldwide image as a merciless, anonymous and genocidal regime. That image has been fed by the accounts of postrevolutionary life given by thousands of refugees in neighboring Thailand and Viet Nam. Caldwell, a lecturer in Southeast Asian economic history at the University of London, accompanied the reporters as a sympathetic student of Cambodia...
...last report, the insurgents had begun a siege of Kompang Cham, a town along the Mekong River only 45 miles northeast of the Cambodian capital...
...Cambodian government blamed the military setbacks on Vietnamese "arch-slaughterers," who they said had planned attacks on several urban areas in the provinces, causing great loss of property and life...
...Cambodian government claimed to have captured 84 Soviet-made tanks in the past week, which they say prove the Soviet and Vietnamese influence in the revolt. The insurgents, on the other hand, claim to have captured or killed scores of Chinese military advisors during their attacks on government-controlled cities...
...Security Council has scheduled a series of private consultations to discuss the issue for late tomorrow afternoon. Sources in the U.N. Secretariat have stated they believe the council will hold a formal session next week, at the request of the Cambodian government...