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...Nixon may have something more specific in mind than merely enhancing his re-election prospects with the trip's inevitable harvest of publicity. One remote chance is that Nixon might try to coax China into joining a multinational conference on easing tensions throughout Southeast Asia, including Laos and Cambodia as well as Viet Nam. That would permit the U.S. to leave Viet Nam with less of an implication that it was forced out, or was deserting any of its Asian allies. However, Hanoi is a block to such an arrangement; it has repeatedly refused to consider any such regional...
...republic was born amid a chorus of gongs and dancing in the streets. Last week Cambodia celebrated the first anniversary of that event. But despite a much improved military situation in the countryside, there were no festivities. They had been canceled in the wake of a new wave of guerrilla-style attacks on Phnom-Penh, the Cambodian capital. The most dramatic occurred late last month, when sappers struck the city's biggest fuel storage depot, burning 1,750,000 gals, of oil. Two weeks ago five persons were killed, including two Americans, when terrorists tossed two grenades during...
...population is hardy and vigorous, particularly those that have come from the North. The Chinese influence and incessant wars over the centuries have produced hardier human stock than has Cambodia, Thailand and other countries that have been subject to Indian influence...
...winning is the prominence of China's astute Premier Chou. Most of China's leaders have been making themselves scarce. Chou has been out in public nearly every day. He was the only member of the top leadership to venture out on National Day, when he led Cambodia's exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk on a tour of the grand Summer Palace on the outskirts of Peking...
...Heating up South Viet Nam's election fever may also have been one motive for heavy North Vietnamese attacks last week against ARVN forces guarding the Cambodian-South Viet Nam border. Despite daily raids by U.S. B-52 bombers against North Vietnamese positions in eastern Cambodia, the South Vietnamese reported heavy casualties. (At week's end, Soviet President Nikolai V. Podgorny, heading a high-ranking delegation, flew into Hanoi in an effort by the Russians to reassure Hanoi of continued support, despite any detente between Washington and Peking...