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...third anniversary of the 1970 coup that exiled Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Phnom-Penh was rocked by new explosions and a new crisis. A Cambodian Air Force trainer stolen by a young officer swooped low over the Presidential Palace and dropped two 500-lb. bombs. The bombs missed the palace and slammed into a cluster of huts that housed presidential guards and their families. At least 38 people died, and about 50 were wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: From Bleak to Awful | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

...went to Indochina as a TIME reporter in 1970-71 seeking "a place where I could be truly pulled apart and reassembled. . .a vision around some corner that will make everything fall into place." Naturally, he does not really find that vision. The sheer energy generated in reporting the Cambodian and Laotian invasions is followed by emptiness. As Willwerth tells it he got sick, homesick, bored and only aroused by the death of a photographer friend. Work is what pulls him through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 3/26/1973 | See Source »

...main reasons for the elusiveness of a Cambodian ceasefire as many observers have noted has been that U.S. influence in the country's political life is stronger than that of the regime established after the March 1970 coup instigated by CIA agent Son Ngoc Thanh. No amount of stepped-up B52 bombing can change that fact. Unless the U.S. stops its interference in Phnom Penh, chances for a ceasefire will remain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peace in Indochina | 2/28/1973 | See Source »

...Indochina, American bombing continues throughout Cambodia and Laos. Dozens of sorties are flown daily to support the troops of Cambodian dictator Lon Nol. In Laos, while we anticipate a peace supposedly at hand, American war planes last week launched over 380 massive raids...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The War Goes On | 2/21/1973 | See Source »

...armed by Hanoi, the Khmer Rouge is now largely independent of the North Vietnamese. In the more than two years since Cambodia was invaded by Saigon's forces and brought into the war. the rebels have proved themselves at least an even match for the 180,000-man Cambodian army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAOS & CAMBODIA: Inching Toward Peace | 2/12/1973 | See Source »

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