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Reporting from Indochina has never been easy, but the upheavals in both Cambodia and South Viet Nam in the past few weeks have vastly complicated the tasks of newsmen and photographers there (see THE PRESS). TIME Correspondent William Stewart, a veteran of the Easter offensive of 1972, flew into one northern provincial capital only to find the city literally collapsing around him as banks and offices closed and policemen deserted their posts; he was taken out by a U.S. helicopter along with the American officials he had come to interview. William McWhirter, who provided much of the reporting...
Where is the spirit of '76? During this Bicentennial of our hard-won freedom, we are searching for meaningful ways to celebrate while we stand by and watch first Cambodia, then South Viet Nam fall to an aggressor [March 31]. As the dominoes fall, will it be Thailand next, then South Korea, Nationalist China on Formosa and so on? These people have fought and are still fighting for the same basic reasons for which we took on Great Britain...
Ford made no new requests for aid to Cambodia, beyond the $222 million already asked. He read a letter from Saukham Khoy, acting president of the Phnom Penh regime...
...surrounded by toadying sycophants who have encouraged him to hang onto power and shield him from bad news. A dialogue with the President has often assumed a sense of unreality. TIME Correspondent David Aikman reported this recent exchange between Lon Nol and Lieut. General Saukam Khoy, president of Cambodia's Senate and Lon Nol's most likely successor...
...Penh for three more months, until the wet season impedes the insurgents' drive. With an improved military situation, the President would expect political pressures to diminish. On the other hand, if he finally makes up his mind to leave, it may in no small measure be due to Cambodia's students. Last week, as rumors swept the capital that time had run out for the President and that a coup was imminent, leaders of the Association of Students of the Khmer Republic, which claims 20,000 members, held a press conference. Known as uncompromising opponents...