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...Phnom-Penh, the Cambodian capital. It was the last day of more than six months of frantic U.S. air support of the Lon Nol regime, during which the U.S. flew 32,000 sorties (including 8,000 by B-52s) and dumped more than 245,000 tons of bombs on Cambodia. This deluge totaled 50% more than all the conventional bombs the U.S. rained upon Japan in World War II. Most of it, of course, was aimed at guerrillas hiding in heavy jungle. As a result, the bombing obviously did not inflict the kind of destruction caused by raids over population...
Scant Result. If that happens, Cambodia will have little to show for the hardships it suffered after the U.S. extended the war into the once placid Cambodian countryside...
Only Saigon benefited from the fighting in Cambodia, which diverted North Vietnamese troops and thus gave South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu a chance to consolidate his military and political position. Instead of keeping Cambodia nonCommunist, the American incursion helped catalyze the minuscule pro-Communist Khmer Rouge guerrillas into a movement of na tional scope. It pushed Prince Norodom Sihanouk, a dedicated neutralist who was overthrown as Cambodia's ruler in spring 1970, reluctantly into the hands of Hanoi and Peking...
...troops were operating on the ground in Cambodia and Laos as early as 1966 and continued until at least April 1972. In 1971, testified former Sergeant Thomas J. Marzullo, "at the time the President said there were no Americans in Laos, we had two teams of men inserted on the ground...
...same time that the committee was hearing new revelations of secret U.S. military activities, critics were energetically trying-and failing-to get the U.S. bombing of Cambodia declared illegal. In Boston, Federal Judge Joseph Tauro dismissed an anti-bombing suit brought by four Congressmen on the ground that the court had no jurisdiction. Similarly, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City overturned a lower judge's ruling of July 25 that the bombing was "unauthorized and unlawful" and must be stopped. That suit had been brought by Representative Elizabeth Holtzman and four Air Force officers. Last...