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...does step down, he would most probably be replaced by Sauk-ham Soy, a retired lieutenant general who is now president of the Senate. The key question would then be whether or not the Khmer Rouge would be willing to try to negotiate a settlement with Sauk-ham Soy, something they were unwilling to do with...
Airport Attacks. Weary government troops continued to fight for survival against the relentless Khmer Rouge (see following story). The Cambodians struggled to retake the village of Tuol Leap, six miles to the northwest of Phnom-Penh, which the enemy had been using as a site for launching rockets against Pochentong Airport. As the fighting swayed back and forth, Khmer Rouge attacks on the airport lessened, and as many as 49 cargo planes flew in daily from Thailand and Saigon with tons of food, oil, medicines and arms...
...Khmer Rouge kept up their determined attacks, Israel, Poland and Singapore joined Australia and Britain in closing their embassies in Phnom-Penh. The French downgraded their embassy to a consulate and began to evacuate their staff and any French citizens who wanted to leave. Last Monday morning, reported TIME Correspondent Roy Rowan, a large group of French and Métis (French Cambodians) gathered in front of the old embassy and stared at the bright travel posters picturing the Eiffel Tower, Mont Blanc and the stained glass windows of the Chartres Cathedral. Many of the evacuees had never been...
...Western diplomat in Phnom-Penh recently described the Khmer Rouge as "the most mysterious of the world's successful revolutionary movements." Few if any Westerners know which of the principal elements in the insurgent force-Cambodian nationalist, Cambodian Marxist or doctrinaire Communist-will emerge triumphant. Moreover, their leaders are enigmatic figures whose views and personalities, for the most part, are far less understood than those of their political counterparts in Hanoi, Moscow or Peking...
...notable exception is exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the titular head of the Khmer insurgents and unquestionably the most popular man in Cambodia to this day. He is "chief of state" of the Royal Government of National Union of Cambodia-acronymically known in French as GRUNK-the shadow government nominally based in Peking. Most observers agree that Sihanouk has little power within the Khmer Rouge organization. If he should ever return to Cambodia as head of state, it would be as a figurehead who might serve to unite the Cambodian people around a Khmer Rouge government. Sihanouk himself has acknowledged this...