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...with the Communists, feeling no pressure to do so. He keeps the Viet Cong delegation isolated in their spartan compound at Tan Son Nhut, located in Saigon. He orders as many as 80 air strikes a day in Tay Ninh and Binh Long provinces north of Saigon near the Cambodian border, where the Communists are believed to have heavy equipment. Throughout South Viet Nam, Thieu's artillery thud away with out letup. "The South Vietnamese are unloading ship after ship of 105-mm. and 155-mm. artillery shells," says an ICCS member in Danang. "And God knows they need...
...only one of several players with waning influence over events. Neither the American public nor the Communist powers will allow the President much freedom of action. This puts all the more emphasis on quiet diplomacy, a craft in which Nixon is skilled. How to maintain the Cambodian balancing act, how to achieve something between victory and defeat remain his mission in Indochina...
Every day last week the electricity went off until sundown, stilling the whirling fans and air conditioners in the breathless heat. Grim-faced American officials shuttled in and out of the palace of Cambodian President Lon Nol. Battle reports proved contradictory and inconclusive. The British, Australians and Japanese evacuated their women and children. Beside the pool of the Hotel Le Phnom (the former Royal), reporters talked of the possibility of a guerrilla attack on the airport, the television station or some other suitable target to coincide with the Buddhist New Year's holiday. This was Phnom-Penh under siege...
...there is only enough diesel fuel to power the city's water system for 19 days, and the electricity supply is dependent on the arrival of further convoys up the Mekong. The airlift announced by the U.S. this week is limited to JP4 jet fuel for the Cambodian air force's tiny fleet of about 20 helicopters...
Washington officials believe that the Cambodian army's weakness is directly related to the government's lack of broad public support, but Marshal Lon Nol still denies that any such problem exists. His troops "are making firm resistance against the aggressors," he insists. The U.S. has already prevailed on Lon Nol to accept the Cabinet resignation of his abrasive younger brother Lon Non. Next it would like to see the President give an important post in the government to Prince Sirik Matak, a respected soldier who helped lead the 1970 coup that installed...