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...past four years, Cambodia's major cities have been abruptly emptied and, by some estimates, up to a quarter of the country's 8 million people may have been slaughtered. He apparently escaped the fast-moving Vietnamese divisions, which were accompanied by 18,000 dissident Cambodian Communists, and was reported to be leading his army's last division near Siem Reap and the ancient temples of Angkor...
...whether Viet Nam will be tempted in the future to push farther, perhaps into Thailand." Thai military leaders last week were spending long "crisis hours" at their desks, and one general even dusted off an old contingency plan that calls for a pre-emptive Thai invasion of the Cambodian centers of Sisophon and Battambang as a buffer against any Vietnamese advance. Publicly, however, Bangkok authorities preferred to appear unconcerned. At his press briefings, Premier Kriangsak insisted last week that "Thailand loves everybody. There is nothing to worry about as long as we Thai people are united...
...York Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who came to the United Nations to plead for aid against the invasion, received treatment yesterday at Lenox Hill for "extreme stress and exhaustion," Dr. Michael S. Bruno said...
Reports said 10 battalions of "Khmer Krom"--Cambodians who have resided in southern Vietnam--had recently been moved into Cambodia and might serve as occupation troops in an effort to present the war as strictly a Cambodian affair...
Radio broadcasts by the new government repeated that freedom would be restored in Cambodia. The radio played songs about the cruelty of the former leaders and about an upcoming revival of traditional Cambodian life, including "A Mother's Call to Her Beloved Son to Rally to the Front to Save the Cambodian Motherland From Destruction...