Word: lon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...live, he testifies, if you hadn't lived in Stavisky's world. In the end, he tilts the film's sympathies towards Stavisky, towards a feeling that these hollow thirties--when every glass of champagne must have had something of the clink heard in Phnom Penh last week as Lon Nol toasted his new chief of staff--were a hothouse for a kind of life different from anything we can experience...
...Lon Nol is a calm man, a big man. He doesn't get excited. He was probably depicted erroneously when he took the title of marshal. But I'm not linked to any groups or personalities here. I've kept my distance. I'm not emotionally involved...
...warehouse full of ammunition, the generals will look out the corners of their eyes at the dwindling supplies, knowing that no more is coming. Then things will just have a way of happening. It was bad enough when they got the story out here of Senator Scott calling for Lon Nol to resign. Put yourself in my shoes when that story hit Phnom-Penh...
What then should the U.S. do? With regard to Cambodia, the question may already be academic. Obviously Washington would gladly settle for a neutralist regime based on the Laotian model as a replacement for Lon Nol, but there is little reason to believe the Khmer Rouge would now accept anything less than full power. There is a chance, of course, that nationalists will temper the ardor of the Communists in the insurgent movement. Perhaps the clever Sihanouk will play a larger role than is now anticipated. The Khmer Rouge, which lacks a strong cadre of leaders, may be forced...
...said that if Cambodia falls because of our lack of aid to Phnom-Penh, our credibility will fall in the eyes of the world. But is our credibility really worth more to us than the people who are dying because we are supporting the corrupt government of President Lon...