Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Slap in the Face. The U.S. command has tried with only limited success to protect Pace and similar bases strung along the Cambodian border by means of B-52 raids and assaults by helicopter gunships. As a result, despite orders to keep casualties down, U.S. officers have been compelled to send Americans out on patrols to protect some bases themselves. Few G.I.s in Viet Nam these days are unaffected by the "I don't want to be the last man shot" syndrome. Thus, when such a patrol was ordered at Fire Base Pace last week, five...
Located alongside South Viet Nam's Route 22, Fire Base Pace was established for two long-range 175-mm. U.S. guns and two 8-in. howitzers to support Vietnamese army operations along the Cambodian border. The guns and the artillerymen who fire them need defensive support from infantry to keep North Vietnamese troops from getting close enough to use their mortars, bazookas and even small arms...
...gongs and dancing in the streets. Last week Cambodia celebrated the first anniversary of that event. But despite a much improved military situation in the countryside, there were no festivities. They had been canceled in the wake of a new wave of guerrilla-style attacks on Phnom-Penh, the Cambodian capital. The most dramatic occurred late last month, when sappers struck the city's biggest fuel storage depot, burning 1,750,000 gals, of oil. Two weeks ago five persons were killed, including two Americans, when terrorists tossed two grenades during a U.S. embassy softball game...
...Khmer Republic enters its second year, two overriding problems face the regime of Premier Lon Nol: a war that has claimed 5,000 Cambodian lives and a rising chorus of domestic critics upset by Phnom-Penh's sluggish response to inflation and corruption...
...help of U.S.-sponsored training programs and $185 million in military aid, Cambodia managed to expand its army from 35,000 ill-trained men to a creditable force of perhaps 180,000. Though U.S. officials do not believe that the army is yet capable of defending the country alone, Cambodian forces last week did succeed in opening up the city of Kompong Thom, which for more than a year had been receiving supplies only by air and water...