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...White House confirmed yesterday that President Nixon sent a personal letter to Cambodian president Lon Nol pledging that the United States would "stand side by side" with the Cambodian government, which is currently facing renewed military offensive by the revolutionary Khmer Rouge...
...Khmer Rouge yesterday continued to escalate their current dry-season offensive, tightening their grip around a trapped Lon Nol force of about 700 men just north of Phnom Penh despite repeated helicopter strafings directed against them...
...Khmer Rouge, who have pressed hard against Phnom Penh in recent weeks, are reported to be massing in several of the approaches to the capital and have reportedly intensified their shelling attacks...
Although the Khmer Rouge have only an estimated 18,000 soldiers within 25 miles of the capital, compared to 50,000 Lon Nol troops, the revolutionaries are considered better fighters and have managed to keep the pressure...
...Khmer Rouge are led by prince Norodom Sihanouk, the former Cambodian ruler who was deposed in a 1970 coup and presently lives in exile in Peking...