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...long ago, after several journalists covering the war in Cambodia had been captured by hostile forces, TIME Correspondent Robert Anson speculated that, come what may, newsmen would still be venturing out into the hazardous Cambodian countryside. In isolated Phnom-Penh, he explained in a cable to New York, reliable information is so hard to come by that even diplomats "would start an interview by asking the correspondent: 'Now what can you tell...
...recent weeks the Communists have had to make new adjustments to support even the guerrilla-style operations in South Viet Nam. Largely because of the Cambodian incursions, which upset the supply routes through the sanctuaries, the guerrilla effort that the Communists had once planned now requires a complex, three-sided strategy encompassing most of Indochina...
...element of the program not mentioned in Ladd's inventory is U.S. combat assistance from the air. American pilots have been observed flying spotter planes over Communist positions and directing Cambodian artillery fire by radio. Plane crews that want to fire at enemy targets themselves must radio their home bases in South Viet Nam or Thailand for permission; it is regularly given. The pilots are not anxious to talk about their role. Recently a reporter visiting a group of Cambodian officers at their headquarters overheard an American pilot's radio transmissions and asked to talk...
Credit Rating. On his desk, Ladd has a direct telephone line to a Cambodian army liaison. Though he maintains that the Cambodians' plans are "surprisingly sophisticated," he admits that "if I think their priorities are dumb, I tell them." He is awaiting delivery of a helicopter that will enable aid officials to observe the Cambodian army in action, and the military attachés at the embassy have just acquired a C-47 for a similar purpose...
...indicate that the U.S. is acutely sensitive to Moscow's difficult position in Cambodia as a result of Peking's sponsorship of Sihanouk, and that Washington is keeping alive its hope that Moscow may yet help in settling the conflict in Indochina. There is evidence that the Cambodians are not anxious, either, for the U.S. presence to grow too noticeable. "If the Americans send in troops, that could affect our political situation adversely," says one Cambodian official. "As it is, we know the Americans are here, but you don't see them very much-and that...