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...Democratic Senator Robert Byrd. He offered a provision that would remove any restrictions against a future move into Cambodia if the President considered it necessary for the protection of U.S. troops in South Viet Nam. Since that was the Administration's public rationale for the initial Cambodian venture, Byrd's change would have effectively nullified the Cooper-Church proposal...
...newsman to enter Siem Reap after the Communist attack was blunted. Some of the fiercest fighting of the two-day battle, he reported, involved a Viet Cong attack on the high school, where more than 200 recently inducted 16-and 17-year-old boys and girls were garrisoned. A Cambodian officer who remained in radio contact with the group throughout a night filled with thundering mortar fire and the clatter of machine guns, said the terrified students cried into the radio "like a baby crying at night for its mother." But they were ordered to hold out, and they...
...capitals, including Siem Reap. the gateway to Angkor, and Kompong Speu, only 24 miles southwest of the capital, Phnom-Penh. The widening Communist attacks spread Premier Lon Nol's forces so thin that his strategists were seriously discussing a kind of grand enclave plan for the country. The Cambodian army would pull back to a corridor stretching from the seaport of Kompong Som (formerly Sihanouk-ville) to Phnom-Penh and northwest to the Thai border, tacitly ceding the rest of Cambodia to the Communists...
...admission that Phnom-Penh does not control much of the rest of the country would be a severe psychological blow to Lon Nol's government but would probably constitute a wise military move. As it is, says one Western military analyst, the Cambodian army's desperate holding action resembles "a skater gliding over a lake of rotten ice. No matter how fast he tries, the ice keeps breaking up, and pretty soon there is nowhere left to skate...
Died. Gerald Miller, 42, TV news reporter, whose body was found and identified last week; when the Jeep in which he was riding was bushwhacked May 31 by Viet Cong rocket fire, killing the Cambodian driver, an Indian cameraman and Reporter George Syvertsen 33 miles southwest of Phnom-Penh...