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Barely in Business. The suddenly intensified U.S. air war also implies a worry that if the pro-Western regimes in Cambodia and Laos were to collapse. South Viet Nam would come under intolerable pressure. In skirmish after skirmish, the Cambodian regime's 160,000-man army has proved unable to hold its own against Communist forces without American support in the air and help from the South Vietnamese on the ground. After the spectacular raids on Pochentong airport and targets in Phnom-Penh, Premier Lon Nol was described by his aides as "depressed." He could not have been particularly...
...main U.S. concern is the increasing flow of rice, fuel, ammunition and other supplies down the Ho Chi Minh Trail, which became more important to the Communists than ever when the Cambodian port of Kompong Som (Sihanoukville) was closed to them last year. In December, a U.S. bomber hit a jungle-covered truck depot 700 yards off the trail. Subsequent raids caused 7,000 secondary explosions and ignited fires that sent smoke rising 6,000 ft. That find and others like it have strengthened Washington's belief that the Communists are scrambling to restock the sanctuaries along the South...
...White House assertions that there is no U.S. commitment to ensure the survival of the Lon Nol government, the Administration seems determined to prove Sihanouk wrong. Soon after the Pochentong disaster, the Pentagon sent two new UH-1 ("Huey") helicopters to Phnom-Penh-a start at rebuilding the broken Cambodian air force. Within the limits imposed by Congress, the Administration is sending in military specialists. An American demolition team has arrived in Phnom-Penh, much to the relief of Cambodian demolition men, who have been sighted in the capital, standing over unexploded terrorist grenades and bombs while puzzling through...
...arrive shortly are 16 members of a military-equipment deployment team, whose job will be to see that arriving U.S. military hardware goes where it should. Washington is at pains to point out that the MEDT men are not advisers. Nevertheless, they can go into the field with Cambodian troops for "in-use checks" of how the arms are used, even during actual combat...
Eight-Day Notice. One thing Washington does not seem to be able to give Cambodia is a sense of urgency. Before the recent sapper attacks, U.S. experts repeatedly pointed out the vulnerability of fuel-storage areas, electric-power utilities and other facilities in Phnom-Penh. Last week the Cambodian government blandly revealed that it had known eight days beforehand that an attack on Pochentong was coming. Nothing was done, because there was just not enough barbed wire on hand...