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...been called a war without fronts. Yet for five long years, U.S. combat troops were halted time and again by one seemingly impenetrable enemy line: South Viet Nam's twisting 600-mile border with Cambodia. Although it shielded no fewer than five large North Vietnamese and Viet Cong sanctuaries, the U.S. refused to violate Cambodia's neutrality by crossing the border to destroy them. Frustrated American military men, peering across valleys at one or another of the inviolable areas, often wished aloud: "If only they'd let us lose the map." Last week their Commander in Chief, Richard Nixon, ordered...
...answer goes back to a shift in Southeast Asia's balance of power in March: the unexpected overthrow of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodia's ruler for nearly 30 years. Sihanouk tolerated the presence of some 40,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong in border provinces?but he managed to keep them in check by adroit political maneuvering. The new regime, headed by General Lon Nol, was determined to end Sihanouk's policy of playing along with the Communists. But Lon Nol's army, long used largely for roadbuilding and ceremonial functions, was, as one foreign diplomat observed, "more like...
...Paris, the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong negotiators boycotted the peace talkes but said they would be back next week. The U.S. and South Vietnamese representatives said they had not decided whether or not to return to the talks...
Yesterday's two massive drives into the areas of Cambodia known as Parrot's Beak and Fishhook accounted for 1952 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong, 14 American, and 151 South Vietnamese deaths...
...requests for outside military aid (see THE NATION) was a show of Communist power and Cambodian impotence at Saang, a handsome French provincial town only 15 miles south of Phnom-Penh on the west bank of the Bassac River. For five days, a Viet Cong and North Vietnamese force of undetermined size-perhaps only 100 men-held the town against a force of 4,000 Cambodian troops, who arrived in a fleet of commandeered buses and trucks. Only after the Cambodians had plastered Saang with artillery, mortar fire and air attacks for four days did they dare enter the half...