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Chou Enlai's position last week seemed by all accounts to be secure, if not enhanced. While most of his colleagues remained out of sight, he was highly visible. On Thursday, he greeted Penn Nouth, the Premier of Prince Norodom Sihanouk's Cambodian regime in exile, at Peking airport, and also received a Japanese economic delegation...
...extremely effective Interior Secretary, and certainly the first who might have earned the title of "secretary of the environment." Eventually, his freewheeling ways clashed with the more cautious decisions of the Nixon Administration. The book details the final conflicts, notably the famous letter to the President after the Cambodian invasion and subsequent campus riots, in which Hickel suggested that Nixon was too insulated. Nixon was to take this as a "mutual lack of confidence...
...aircraft have been used primarily to fly from Pakse and other towns in Southern Laos to secret CIA bases in the region, according to these sources. Late last year it was revealed that one of the CIA operations in Southern Laos is the training of 1500 Cambodian soldiers, in order to evade Congressional restrictions on U.S. operations in Cambodia...
Hiqh-Level Dismay. At the same time, the Communists have renewed their pressure on Cambodia. Three crack NVA regiments last week tangled with elite Cambodian troops for control of the Vihear Suor marshes on the east bank of the Mekong, which are the key to the eastern defenses of Phnom-Penh. In the Cambodian capital, a mere dozen miles away, residents could hear the fighting. While the Communists appear to have no interest in toppling Phnom-Penh, they want.control of the marshes to increase their flexibility in responding to potential ARVN attacks...
Litmus Test. Once launched, however, the offensive is not certain of success. The Communist position has its weaknesses. Hanoi's Laotian and Cambodian holdings are very sparsely populated. In South Viet Nam the Communists hold nothing but such desolate regions as portions of the U Minh Forest and the A Shau Valley. The heavily populated and strategically important Mekong Delta and the eleven provinces around Saigon face no substantial military danger. While ARVN troops have performed disappointingly in some recent battles in Cambodia and Laos, the litmus test of the Vietnamization program is how they will defend themselves inside...