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Magic Kerchief TIME Correspondent Robert Anson was the first newsman to enter Siem Reap after the Communist attack was blunted. Some of the fiercest fighting of the two-day battle, he reported, involved a Viet Cong attack on the high school, where more than 200 recently inducted 16-and 17-year-old boys and girls were garrisoned. A Cambodian officer who remained in radio contact with the group throughout a night filled with thundering mortar fire and the clatter of machine guns, said the terrified students cried into the radio "like a baby crying at night for its mother...
Such spirit, half nationalism and half naivete, is what keeps Cambodia going these days. But it is not going to work for long against experienced North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops. In both Laos and Cambodia, the suddenly widening war in Indochina is placing pressure on the two governments, which in turn are appealing to the U.S. for help. But so far, the U.S. has been unwilling to respond with any real force...
...Communists, apparently a mixed force of North Vietnamese sappers and Viet Cong guerrillas, skillfully pinned down one platoon of U.S. Marines and one of the Popular Forces that were on night ambush duty near by. A Regional Forces platoon was trapped inside its compound near the village's only military target, a bridge across the Ba Ren River. After pounding the three hamlets with some 200 mortar rounds, enemy troops slipped into Thanh My. By then, many of the residents, trying to escape the mortar explosions, had taken refuge in bunkers. They soon became graves...
...South Vietnamese let the Communists get away rather than risk destroying the town. Nonetheless, the attack was the most successful ground assault on a major city in two years. President Nguyen Van Thieu was sufficiently angered to order the immediate firing of the responsible province chief, Colonel Lo Cong Danh (whose name means "the road to glory...
...Unlike Viet Nam, where intelligence information is relatively good, the situation in Cambodia is fluid and newsmen are virtually on their own. When the two groups came to the last roadblock of Cambodian soldiers, they presumably flashed their press cards and headed on, unaware that North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops had moved into the area. The convoy had gone only a mile or so when the soldiers at the checkpoint heard an explosion and bursts of small-arms fire. Two days later, when Cambodian troops moved forward, they found the burned-out Jeep and five fresh-graves. The body...