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Meeting with some Republican congressional leaders last week, President Ford had some disquieting news from mystery-shrouded Cambodia, which the Khmer Rouge have all but hermetically sealed. The victorious Khmer Rouge forces, he said, had executed 80 high-ranking officers of the defeated Cambodian army. Then Ford added: "They killed the wives too. They said the wives were just the same as their husbands. This is a horrible thing to report to you, but we are certain that our sources are accurate." Said one of the Senators who attended the meeting: "There was a gasp around the table." Other reports...
...week's end another group of nearly 600 refugees reached Thailand after an arduous, 3½-day truck journey from Phnom-Penh. Mostly French, the evacuees had sought haven in the French embassy when Cambodia's capital fell to the Khmer Rouge and had been virtual prisoners ever since. To the annoyance of France, one of the first non-Communist countries to recognize the Khmer Rouge, the embassy had been turned into a virtual prison. Food, medicine and communications had been cut off. After protests from Paris, the regime finally allowed the 600 out. Sidney Schanberg, a correspondent...
...Indochina. A ranking East European Communist in Moscow told TIME Moscow Correspondent John Shaw that "the Soviets are not going to try to humiliate the Americans over Viet Nam. The events speak for themselves-there's no use rubbing it in." Indeed, during the past tumultuous month, the Khmer Rouge conquest of Cambodia and the Communist triumphs in South Viet Nam were reported in the Soviet press with striking discretion. The first official Moscow communique on Saigon's fall emphasized that it was primarily a victory for detente rather than for Communism. Said Tass: "A most dangerous source...
...soon afterward, at 8 p.m. last Wednesday, the P.R.G. cut off all communication with the non-Communist world except, sporadically, via the Japanese embassy. By week's end the victors' handling of the Western press was looking relatively professional. Unlike the unpredictable and still rather unsophisticated Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, the well-organized, news-conscious P.R.G. quickly established...
...abolished the monarchy, Kossamak, her health failing, was held under virtual house arrest for three years before being allowed to join Sihanouk in exile in Peking. Her deepening illness clouded Sihanouk's recent victory celebrations and delayed the return home of the newly appointed lifetime head of the Khmer state...