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...week, Secretary of State William Rogers made the first public admission that "we had air activity over Cambodia before the change of government," and he indicated that it could continue after June 30; yet Rogers stated flatly that the U.S. would not "become involved militarily in support of any Cambodian government." Evidently, Saigon intends to take on that task. Vice President Ky said last week that South Viet Nam is building a string of eleven airfields on the Cambodian border to provide ARVN with its own air support...
...last week, the U.S. controls supplies and could prevent the South Vietnamese from going too far. At present, Saigon has only 21,000 men in Cambodia, the equivalent of two divisions (the U.S. still has 14,000). By spoiling the sanctuaries, it is argued in Saigon and Washington, the Cambodian venture has bought time for Vietnamization. It has also boosted ARVN's morale...
...towns above Phnom-Penh confirm that most of the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong are spilling into the northeast and northwest quadrants of the country. Their temporary destination may be the quiet shores of Tonle Sap Lake, 70 miles north of Phnom-Penh. There they would be near the Cambodian rice bowl and a rich supply of fish, while waiting for a chance to move closer to the border...
...conference of 12 Asian nations* that began in Djakarta last week could lay the groundwork for assistance. The conference is likely to produce calls for support of Cambodian neutrality, withdrawal of all foreign troops and the sending of observers to the embattled country...
Encircled Capital. The old question came up for debate again last week: Why had the U.S. launched the Cambodian foray in the first place? The "pink Prince," as Sihanouk now calls himself, announced from his Peking exile that Nixon had acted only because a "liberation army" was "on the point of taking the capital by assault." Nixon did say in his April 30 speech that the Communists "are encircling" Phnom-Penh, but White House advisers cite other factors in his decision. The most important was that the Communists seemed to be moving to link up their border sanctuaries to create...