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...least some of the 21 journalists,* of various nationalities, missing while on assignment in Cambodia, may still be alive. Last week CBS'S Walter Cronkite, who heads the Committee to Free Journalists Held in Southeast Asia, announced that "we believe they are held by the Khmer Rouge, the major insurgent group in Cambodia. They are kept on the move between prison compounds. Their exact identities are not known, nor is the state of their health." This new information partially corroborates previous intelligence reports that longhaired, bearded prisoners have been seen by Cambodian peasants near guerrilla hideouts along the South...
Somewhere in Cambodia, peasants are trudging back to their bombed out villages. Although fighting still flares between the revolutionary Khmer Rouge and the American-backed Lon No1 government, the murderous American bombing ended over two months ago, called off by Congressional decree after 160 consecutive days of aerial...
...nearly two weeks, Kompong Cham−Cambodia's third largest city−has been besieged by Khmer insurgents. During the initial onslaught, government forces were split in two and Communist-backed troops invested more than half of the T-shaped Mekong River town. Late last week the tide of battle turned. The besiegers began to drift away, and the Phnom-Penh government claimed a significant victory. TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand rode a Cambodian helicopter into Kompong Cham, left the scene two days later with a convoy of wounded for the 75-mile voyage downriver to Phnom-Penh. His report...
...machine gun recovered from an enemy position that they had just destroyed. General Sar Hor pulled a wad of riels from his map case and handed the reward to Major Kim Phong, the group's commander. "Special forces, can do!" he shouted. Kim Phong, a tall, strapping Khmer with a stubbly beard, who looks a bit like an Asian Lee Marvin, has been a soldier for 20 years, first for the French, then for U.S. Special Forces in Viet Nam, now with the Cambodian army. He speaks loud, brash G.I. English sprinkled with obscenities, leads his team on special...
...terror bombing of Indochina is in itself sufficient to make toppling the Nixon regime morally imperative. The continued bombing of the Khmer Rouge right up until the Congressionally imposed August 15 deadline betrayed any attempt of Nixonian "statesmanship" to rationalize its murders, and conclusively demonstrated the vicious insanity long buried in Nixon's psychology...