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...technicians soon followed. Later, a special transport plane flew into Phnom-Penh's Pochentong Airport from China, and when it left, it was filled with Chinese technicians and members of Peking's big diplomatic community. At week's end, North Viet Nam and the Viet Cong announced that they were closing their Cambodian embassies. "These are the first storm warnings," a Western diplomat said. "When they begin to leave, the rest of us had better watch out. It could be rocket time...
That time may be rapidly approaching. At Poi Meau, a scant 28 miles from the Cambodian capital, government troops clashed with an estimated 300 Viet Cong guerrillas. Farther east, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces, intent on protecting their sanctuaries and supply lines, fought pitched battles with Cambodian regulars. In neighboring Laos and South Viet Nam, such clashes have raged for the better part of a decade-and continued to rage last week. Now Cambodia, too, is fast becoming a full-fledged participant in the Indochina conflict. "There is no need for us to declare war," said Premier...
...really going on in Cambodia?" In neighboring Laos, the hard-pressed government forces regained some lost ground, providing themselves with a temporary psychological lift, but the strong Communist offensive showed no signs of collapse. Across the border in South Viet Nam, the fresh wave of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong attacks sent U.S. battle deaths sharply up, probably to the worst level in eight months...
...postponed a month or two. Failing that, Abrams wants a cut that will total fewer than 50,000 men. Besides having to cope with the Cambodian uncertainties, Abrams is thin on the ground in the northernmost sector of South Viet Nam and disturbed by the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong infiltration from across the border in Cambodia. Even if the President sets the figure at 50,000 or more, he can ease the blow by announcing that number but delaying actual reduction until the situation becomes clearer. He did just that with stage three...
...main post office. Sandbags were piled around entrances to military installations. In the capital's streets, student volunteers performed military drills. In the countryside, tension remained high. In Takeo, site of a large pro-Sihanouk demonstration, the assistant governor told TIME Correspondent David Greenway how the Viet Cong stir up support for the deposed prince, who is now reported to be in Hanoi conferring with North Vietnamese leaders. "At night the Viet Cong come to the villages and play tape recordings of Sihanouk's speeches from Peking," he said. "I expect a difficult hour is coming...