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...CAMBODIA. Sihanouk says that he tried to talk about negotiations with President Nixon or Henry Kissinger, and was rebuffed on four separate occasions. "Now I am no longer interested in meeting Kissinger ... We [the Communist-dominated Khmer Rouge insurgents] are prepared to go on until 1976 because we hope that after President Nixon, the new President will decide to stop the U.S. intervention in Cambodia. But if the new President chooses to continue, we are ready to go on independently until 1980. We have enough courage to do that." Sihanouk insists that the insurgents will negotiate only...
...Sihanouk visited Khmer Rouge-held sections of Cambodia in March and asked his people their opinion of America. "They said, 'Bombings, bombings, killing, killing. We cannot be friends with such an inhuman country.' My people cannot be aware of your good traditions or the background of your Revolution. They know you through the B-52s, the AC-130s, the Spookies [gun ships] and the F-111s and F-105s...
...that in Laos as well rests with the peoples of those countries. Congress and the public have come to accept that the U.S. must stop interfering in Cambodia's affairs, which will surely result in well-deserved victory of the revolutionary forces led by Prince Sihanouk and the Khmer Rouge...
...constitutionally legitimate or not, U.S. bombing was unquestionably helpful in keeping the shaky government of Marshal Lon Nol alive. Night after night, the windows of Phnom-Penh rattled as B-52s and F-111s dropped their loads a few miles away. For the moment, following their recent victories, the Khmer insurgents seemed to have halted their attack on the capital-partly because of the U.S. bombing but also to give their overextended supply lines a chance to catch up with them...
...strategy has been to try to strengthen the Lon Nol government in advance of negotiations with the Khmer insurgents. But at the moment the insurgents do not seem to have much interest in negotiating anyway. One unresolved question was whether or not they would accept the titular leadership of deposed Prince Sihanouk, who is strongly backed by both Hanoi and Peking. Although Communist elements among the insurgents have little use for Sihanouk, there was a possibility that they might try to use his popularity with the peasantry to broaden their own movement. One Eastern European diplomat in Phnom-Penh suggested...