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United States warplanes waged air strikes against Cambodia yesterday for the 139th consecutive day since the bombing began in February...
...Cambodia. Now we learn that Cambodia has been bombed even longer than we suspected.Seymour Hersh of The New York Times, the best reporter in this country, revealed last week that the military waged secret air strikes there beginning...
With Aug. 15 the deadline on U.S. bombing of insurgent forces circling Phnom-Penh, TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand traveled to Cambodia last week to assess the country's mood. His report...
...Cambodia sinks ever deeper into crisis. For a time, in late May, the Khmer insurgent offensive slowed, but in June the attacks began again, this time concentrating on the area to the south and southwest of the capital. Village after village was held briefly, then abandoned after air strikes and artillery duels. For the government forces, disaster follows disaster. When Kompong Kantuot near Phnom-Penh was abandoned, the government troops were forced to swim the Thnot River because insurgents had blown the bridges. Some of the soldiers-boys aged twelve to 15-drowned. Those who escaped heard others, left behind...
...worse," a colonel replies. "Some units are not fighting. It's not just the soldiers; it's the officers too." He still believes in the Americans. "If things slowly and slowly get worse, the U.S. Congress will not close its eyes. The Americans will help us. If Cambodia falls, the Americans will lose face, not the Cambodians...