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...through Oct. 13), is for all practical purposes definitive. It contains some 350 works, including last year's sculptures and beginning with early cubist-influenced paintings. One striking example is the superb Nude with a Mirror-solid as a column with those interlocking planes of pink flesh, the Khmer eyes, the thick hawser of plaited hair, and perched on a hassock whose needlepoint butterfly sums up Miró's pleasure in decorative enumeration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joan Mir | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

Right now, it's these American military advisers and personnel who direct this traitorous "Khmer Republic" in its ministries, in the provinces still occupied by the traitors, and in its army. These American military advisers direct military operations and take part in combat...

Author: By Huot Samboth, | Title: Destroying Cambodia's Peace | 5/14/1974 | See Source »

...adviser was sent to Kampot when American officials in Cambodia decided that the situation there was becoming critical for the Lon Nol troops. In the past month, insurgent Khmer Rouge troops have moved within one mile of the city and captured its water supply and Cambodia's only cement factory. The population of the city has dropped from 50,000 to less than 20,000 in that time and almost all private shops and businesses have closed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Cambodian Interests | 3/21/1974 | See Source »

...help prop up illegitimate and unpopular regimes in which the American government and economic interests have large investments. Junior Cambodian officers told American reporters last week that Americans frequently advise and plan strategy for Lon Nol troops all around beseiged Phnom Penh. Such involvement will probably increase as the Khmer Rouge assault intensifies and achieves more successes like this week's capture of the former royal capital of Oudong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Cambodian Interests | 3/21/1974 | See Source »

...million residents of refugee-swollen Phnom-Penh heeded this appeal last week by the clandestine radio of the Khmer Insurgents. Although artillery and rocket attacks on the Cambodian capital have already killed an estimated 340 civilians and wounded another 800 since last December, the inevitability of a rebel ground attack on the city in the near future seems far from certain. Since the current dry-season offensive began, the forces of Cambodian President Lon Nol have blunted three separate attempts by the Communist-led guerrillas to drive into the capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: Stalemated Siege | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

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