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With those words, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger acknowledged last week that the final Indochina crisis was at hand-both in Indochina and in Washington. The Khmer Rouge were masters of Phnom-Penh; the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong were tightening their noose around Saigon. Meanwhile most Congressmen remained adamantly opposed to voting any more military aid for South Viet Nam. U.S. involvement in the wars of Indochina was coming to a last and dangerous conclusion; now the most important question to the U.S. was how to evacuate several thousand Americans from South Viet Nam and what to do about...
...CAPTURE of Phnom Penh last week by the Khmer Rouge is a victory for the Cambodian people over the corrupt Lon Nol regime and the imperialist American policies that supported it. When the Lon No 1 government surrendered, Khmer Rouge and former government troops embraced, signalling an end to the suffering of the Cambodian people after five long years of war. The new Cambodian government holds out the hope of social reform and simple honesty that were absent under Lon No 1. For that reason alone, those in this country who support national self-determination for Cambodia should consider...
...there is work to be done in Cambodia. Large portions of the countryside are still in ruins due to American bombing. Thousands of refugees, needing food and medical supplies, are still crowded into Phnom Penh and will have to gradually return to their homes. Khmer Rouge spokesmen said last week that the new government will regard the U.S. with caution, but they left open the possibility of good relations in the future and American aid in the days immediately ahead. The U.S. should seize this opportunity to begin repairing the devastation our policies and actions have brought to Cambodia...
...premier added that a provisional high committee had been set up to run the country and the Acting President was no longer recognized. Actually, control of what was left of the government passed over to the army, as ministers still in Phnom-Penh prepared to surrender to the advancing Khmer Rouge...
...Toward dawn I made my final tour of the front. I checked on the defenses of Pochentong airport. There had been some heavy fighting during the night, but there was nothing to indicate that the Khmer Rouge had made any significant breakthrough that would drastically change the military situation. Everywhere I went, soldiers were preparing as usual for another day of war. They brushed their teeth and cleaned their guns as on any other morning of the past five years...