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...South Vietnamese ground troops have not yet found the major Communist base complex, reportedly located in the Fishhook region of southeastern Cambodia...
...central Cambodia. Communist troops won an important river crossing 37 miles southeast of Phnom Penh, the national capital...
...poll reported last night after telephone interviews with 1022 people that Americans support President Nixon's decision to send U. S. troops into Cambodia by a margin of almost...
...President Nixon sought again to clarify and advance U.S. policy in Viet Nam, the situation was made even murkier by events in neighboring Cambodia. There the menacing movements of 40,000 Communist troops threatened the poorly equipped army of the new Premier, General Lon Nol, and there was even a danger that the capital, Phnom-Penh, might fall (see THE WORLD). The new Communist challenge posed another, potentially fateful series of questions...
...President must decide how much military aid, if any, and what kind, the U.S. should provide in response to Lon Nol's personal appeal for help. If Phnom-Penh were to fall, so would the non-Communist government of Cambodia. The North Vietnamese troops would then have even safer sanctuaries and supply routes from which to harass South Viet Nam. But any widening of U.S. involvement would raise political protests at home. The President's televised report to the nation only underscored the dilemma. He bluntly warned Hanoi's leaders that they would be taking "grave risks...