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...opinion, and from our experience, there is nothing in South Viet Nam that threatens the United States of America. To attempt to justify the loss of one American life in Viet Nam, Cambodia or Laos by linking such loss to the preservation of freedom is to us the height of criminal hypocrisy...
...presided over a parade celebrating South Viet Nam's "glorious victory" in Laos. In Saigon, meanwhile, his Vice President and chief rival, Nguyen Cao Ky, was putting on a show of his own. "You ask why we did not have a victory parade after our successful campaign in Cambodia last year?" he chortled during a talk at a welfare workers' school in Cholon. "We did not have to, you know, because it was a real victory. As to why we had a victory parade in Hue for the recent campaign in Laos, I think you should...
When he returned to Cambodia two weeks ago from Honolulu, where he had been under treatment for the stroke that immobilized him last February, Premier Lon Nol was still a long way from complete recovery. He seemed weak in body and in spirit, had only limited use of his left arm. dragged his left leg as he walked, and occasionally slurred his words as he spoke. Even so, there was little to foreshadow the crisis that beset Phnom-Penh last week, leaving the government-like Lon Nol himself-in a state of partial paralysis...
...crisis began on his seventh day back in the capital, when Lon Nol abruptly resigned. In bewilderingly rapid order he was 1) acclaimed an official "national hero" by the legislature, 2) made Cambodia's first marshal of the army, and 3) entreated by Chief of State Cheng Heng to reconsider his resignation in view of the country's "grave circumstances" and form a new government. At week's end, Lon Nol was reported ready to accept the invitation...
Many Cambodians would applaud. The somewhat mystical Premier has succeeded admirably in unifying the country, but students, intellectuals and other early supporters of the regime are beginning to complain of drift and disorganization. The government is just barely holding its own against the 50,000 Communist troops in Cambodia, and it is slowly losing ground in its struggle against inflation and other symptoms of war. Lately, stories of indolence and corruption in the Cabinet have been circulating in the capital. Crisis or no, it was, as one Western diplomat put it, "a good time to change the government...