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...half year secret bombing of Cambodia. They lied about the reasons for the 1970 invasion of that country -- and they lied when they said the just-ended bombing of Cambodia was intended to stop a North Vietnamese invasion, when in fact it was directed against the indigenous Khmer Rouge...
Ever since the U.S. bombing halt went into effect on Aug. 15, the most ominous question about Cambodia's future has been: When would the Hanoi-backed Khmer insurgents make their big move? Despite several weeks of concentrated assaults by American B-52s, the rebel forces had been able to move to within ten miles of the capital of Phnom-Penh prior to the deadline. Those sweeping advances suggested that the troops of Cambodian President Lon Nol, once they were denied the support of U.S. warplanes, would be hard-pressed to stave off a major enemy attack...
Although the bombing in Cambodia was just as severe, it did not yet have the same immediate impact. Most people know little about the embattled country. Reporting from Cambodia is scanty and shoddy, the outlines of the political dispute there are hazy, and the revolutionary Khmer Rough, to which many Harvard students would be attracted, is still a shadowy and elusive force...
...because they are not all "Communists." At any rate, these phrases should be accompanied by something like "Capitalist war planes" or, at the very least, "Free Enterprise war planes." One can be thankful for small favors, however; at least these papers have for the most part stopped calling the Khmer Rouge or the NLF "the enemy...
Major John Hoskins, 37, of Portsmouth, Ohio, triggered the last bomb, a 500-pounder, over Khmer insurgent bunkers 25 miles northeast of Phnom-Penh. Flying alongside him was Captain Lonnie Ratley III, 29, of Plant City, Fla., who moments later fired the last