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Make an announcement to the U.N., the Viet Cong and the world that we hereby call off all hostilities as of a stated date, but that we will keep an exact count of all casualties suffered by us or our allies during every twenty-four-hour period thereafter. Each day at a stated hour the exact number will be announced. It may be verified by neutral observers. It will be distributed in leaflets to the North, and that will be the number of bombs dropped on North Viet Nam the following day. Meanwhile, we revert to undeclared peace and resume...
...damage to the inhabitants of Cambodia." Sihanouk chose to interpret that as an ironclad promise that U.S. forces in Viet Nam would not cross the Cambodian border under any circumstances-which it was not. Thus he was enraged when, in the midst of a firefight with a Viet Cong unit, U.S. and Vietnamese soldiers inadvertently crossed the border, killing, he claimed, three Cambodians...
...same time took care to set the record straight. The allied unit involved had received heavy fire from a South Vietnamese village located in a border pocket and surrounded on nearly three sides by Cambodian territory. The allied troops attacked and then took the village, and the Viet Cong retreated into Cambodia, firing as they went. In the melee, U.S. and Vietnamese soldiers penetrated some 75 yards into Cambodian territory. "It was not planned," said the State Department. "It occurred in the heat of battle and was due to an attempt of American and ARVN forces to protect themselves...
...actually running hot goods to Saigon's black market in an ambulance, complete with blaring siren. Even the chief of staff of South Viet Nam's 5th Division was caught using government trucks to transport U.S. rice to areas where it could be sold to the Viet Cong...
...second charge against the war is that the toll in human bloodshed, especially among civilians, has now become morally intolerable, even though many of the civilians are victims of Viet Cong terrorism, and many others are deliberately pushed into the line...