Word: lon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe that any Congressmen can look at the suffering of the Cambodian people and vote to withhold aid from these oppressed people. What difference should it make if we like President Lon Nol or not? If we help in every way possible to prevent the collapse of the Cambodian government and it still falls, at least we won't have the blood of all the innocent victims on our hands...
...battering ram pounding an already crumbling citadel, the Khmer Rouge insurgents last week aimed new blows against the tottering Khmer Republic. On all of Cambodia's battlefields, government troops were falling back or launching unsuccessful counterattacks. Since the rebel offensive began in January, 5,000 of President Lon Nol's troops have been killed and 15,000 wounded. Rebel casualties are estimated to be higher, and civilian losses are considerable...
...change of political leadership can spare Phnom-Penh eventual strangulation and all of Cambodia even greater bloodshed than it has suffered so far. At week's end, there was some new hope that such a change may still be possible; U.S. sources in Phnom-Penh reported that Lon Nol and his family would soon depart Cambodia for Indonesia and then proceed to the U.S. - probably Hawaii, where he underwent medical treatment in 1971 for a stroke. This could open the way for a new government and a negotiated peaceful transition of power to the insurgents. Both the Communists...
...past two weeks, pressure has been continually building on Lon Nol to resign or at least leave the country. The majority of his generals have been increasingly open in urging the President to go. So have been most of the cabinet and nearly all members of the bicameral National Assembly. An ad hoc coalition of top Cabinet and military leaders, in frequent audiences with Lon Nol, have been trying to convince him that his continued presence in the capital could lead to an eventual bloodbath...
...Lon Nol remains adamant and refuses to leave, it is in part because he has ensconced himself in his tightly guarded...