Word: cambodias
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...days last week, it looked as if Cambodia might become another South Viet Nam. Communist insurgent forces, armed and led by the North Vietnamese, were besieging the Cambodian capital, Phnom-Penh. U.S. B-52s bombed through the night around Phnom-Penh, hoping to hold off the enemy and prop up the shaky, dictatorial regime of President Lon Nol. General Alexander Haig Jr., U.S. Army Vice Chief of Staff and former deputy to Henry Kissinger, was sent on a fast fact-finding tour of Indochina. While high Washington officials called the situation "abysmal" and "awful," President Nixon went off to ponder...
American bombing continued regularly in Cambodia and U.S. minesweepers stopped clearing operations along the coasts of North Vietnam as the fragile peace signed a mere three months ago continued to unravel...
...United States said its actions were in response to stepped up liberation force activity in Laos and continued war in Cambodia, the only nation in the area not covered by a peace agreement...
From the U.S. point of view, the terms of the Paris agreement on Viet Nam make it extremely important that the Phnom-Penh government be saved from collapse. The danger is that if most of Cambodia should fall to the Communists, the North Vietnamese and their allies would be able to transport military reinforcements to Cambodia by sea, thereby substantially reducing their reliance on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. They would be able to 'claim that they were observing the letter of the Viet Nam and Laos cease-fire agreements, even as they built up immense military pressure...
...fighting refuses to die down in Cambodia, it threatens to flare up with pre-Paris vigor in South Viet Nam. Despite the elaborate peace-keeping machinery and the tough talk from Washington, the skirmishing throughout the South last week surged to the highest level since the days immediately following the January ceasefire...