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...conceded that Nixon's decision to send U.S. troops into Cambodia alienated large numbers of the young. Nonetheless he defended that decision before students, professors and a meeting of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers last month in Atlantic City. The union men heard him out respectfully, but condemned the Cambodian action...
...city of Kompong Thorn, capital of the province just north of the capital province of Kandal. Another overran the river town of Setbo, a mere ten miles from Phnom-Penh, and held it for two days before being driven back by two hastily summoned and ill-equipped battalions of Cambodian soldiers. The Vietnamese Communist forces in Cambodia were reinforced by relatively small numbers of Cambodian Communist troops (the Khmer Rouge) and reportedly by some units of Pathet Lao, a native Communist force in Laos. There were even rumors, discounted by most Western experts, that some Chinese Communist soldiers had joined...
With the help of emergency reinforcements, the Cambodian army repelled both attacks. At week's end the Communists were reported withdrawing toward the centuries-old ruins. Fearful of battle damage to the remains of the storied Khmer empire, one of the world's most treasured antiquities, the Cambodian government ruled out either a defense of the monuments or an attack if they were taken. One rumor had it that the deposed chief of state, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, might try to move his exile government to Siem Reap. Most observers figured, however, that the Communists picked the temple area...
...long as the Communists enjoyed full use of their Cambodian sanctuaries, they were able to keep persistent pressure on the entire lower half of South Viet Nam. To be sure, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces remain a menace in the two southern military regions. But there is growing evidence that the area from the Camau Peninsula in the southern tip of the country to the first slopes of the Central Highlands has begun to benefit from the allies' sanctuary-scouring raids...
...close behind a Jeep and a Mercedes carrying Syvertsen, CBS Reporter-Producer Gerald Miller and their crew. Unlike Viet Nam, where intelligence information is relatively good, the situation in Cambodia is fluid and newsmen are virtually on their own. When the two groups came to the last roadblock of Cambodian soldiers, they presumably flashed their press cards and headed on, unaware that North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops had moved into the area. The convoy had gone only a mile or so when the soldiers at the checkpoint heard an explosion and bursts of small-arms fire. Two days later...