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Life in beleaguered Phnom-Penh was gradually returning to normal. For ten days the Cambodian capital had been spared the pounding of the Khmer Insurgents' artillery. Then suddenly, one day last week at midafternoon, captured American 105-mm. howitzers slammed 73 shells into the city in the worst attack in the history of that...
Artillery bombarded Phnom-Penh last week, inflicting the most serious damage on the capital in nearly four years of war. Taking advantage of the dry season, Khmer Rouge insurgents moved their forces to within 4½ miles of the city and shelled it over a period of five days with captured U.S.-made 105-mm. howitzers. During the attacks, at least 1,200 of the 25-lb. shells rained upon the refugee-packed capital, demolishing flimsy makeshift huts and killing more than 100 civilians...
...Khmer Rouge, small and powerless during the Sihanouk years, grew in numbers dramatically after the Lon Nol takeover and the ensuing American bombing...
Sihanouk, formerly a fierce neutralists, opposed the Khmer Rouge during his nearly two decades in power, but he allied himself with them after he was outsted and he is presently viewed as their leader...
...Khmer Rouge is now estimated to number at least...