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...million residents of refugee-swollen Phnom-Penh heeded this appeal last week by the clandestine radio of the Khmer Insurgents. Although artillery and rocket attacks on the Cambodian capital have already killed an estimated 340 civilians and wounded another 800 since last December, the inevitability of a rebel ground attack on the city in the near future seems far from certain. Since the current dry-season offensive began, the forces of Cambodian President Lon Nol have blunted three separate attempts by the Communist-led guerrillas to drive into the capital...
...rebels may try to demoralize the capital's populace by continued artillery attacks. But the barrages could become counterproductive. Cambodian Premier Long Boret last week told Scott: "The longer the war goes on, the stronger becomes the determination to resist because of the terrorism the Communists have created...
Life in beleaguered Phnom-Penh was gradually returning to normal. For ten days the Cambodian capital had been spared the pounding of the Khmer Insurgents' artillery. Then suddenly, one day last week at midafternoon, captured American 105-mm. howitzers slammed 73 shells into the city in the worst attack in the history of that...
...Khmer Rouge are led by prince Norodom Sihanouk, the former Cambodian ruler who was deposed in a 1970 coup and presently lives in exile in Peking...
Initial reports claimed that they were North Vietnamese, but since then it has been widely acknowledged that they are indigenous Cambodian revolutionaries, receiving only material aid and training assistance only material aid and training assistance from North Vietnam...