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...Cambodia to the south," reported the Washington Post on March 5, "the North Vietnamese and Khmer communist forces control the major portion of the border with Thailand...
...rare bright spot in the Indochina war has been the seemingly charmed survival of Angkor Wat, the fabulous, vine-covered imperial ruins that are revered today as the centerpiece of ancient Cambodian culture. Even after a Viet Cong regiment and several Khmer Rouge (Cambodian Communist) battalions slipped into the undefended city 20 months ago, Angkor Wat seemed protected by a United Nations convention preserving national monuments from wartime damage. A French-sponsored team that had been meticulously restoring the city's 800-year-old bas-relief galleries, statues and fluted balustrades was permitted by the Communists to continue...
...night, according to the defectors, the Communists stole pieces of ancient Khmer art to finance their occupation. Such art finds ready markets abroad. Complains one Cambodian cultural official: "In Thailand, dealers usually say the Angkor statues are 'from private collections'; in Hong Kong, merchants don't even bother to give an explanation. They just say take it or leave...
...Montagnard uprisings against more recent governments. Defeat by the Central Government leads to the group's withdrawal from the national political scene. Finally, however, there is a renewal of ties and an accommodation is worked out. At present, all of the rural communal groups--Hoa Hao, Cao Dai, Catholic, Khmer and Montagnard--have reached such accommodations with the existing system, stimulated no doubt by shared hostility toward the Viet Cong...
Evident Failure. The Cambodian defeat came as a shattering blow to the country's fledgling army, which has been built up perhaps too swiftly since the invasion by South Vietnamese and U.S. troops in May-1970. In an operation dubbed Chenla 11 (named after a Khmer kingdom that existed from the sixth to the eighth century), 20,000 Cambodian troops set out last August to lift ; 15-month siege of Kompong Thorn, 78 miles north of the capital on Route 6. By October, the main force had reached that objective, but in the meantime had left troops strung...