Word: lon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...congressional critics, the President's message appeared to be an attempt to shift to Congress the blame and responsibility if the Cambodian government of President Lon Nol should fall to the Khmer rebel forces some time after Aug. 15 (see THE WORLD). Many Congressmen were also upset about the Administration's recently revealed secret bombing of Cambodia in 1969 and 1970 (TIME, July 30). General Earle G. Wheeler, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, defended the policy before the Senate Armed Services Committee last week, arguing: "Secrecy has been in vogue in the military for centuries...
...situation in Cambodia is so grave that it is hard to find an optimistic military assessment around Phnom-Penh. The army of President Lon Nol is not performing well. Even with the intense U.S. bombing, the insurgents merely take their losses and keep on coming. A well-informed Western intelligence officer observes that "while the government's forces have been going downhill, the insurgents have been improving." Even usually optimistic Premier In Tam candidly allowed that the military situation was going "from bad to worse." Villagers flee devastated hamlets as American warplanes drone overhead. Roads leading to Phnom-Penh...
...studded with government gun emplacements and fallback defensive positions. Not so. It is poorly defended. To the soldiers along Route 2, which cuts through Takhmau to Phnom-Penh, the situation looks bleak. They feel that the government has done little for them. They complain about the corruption of the Lon Nol regime. One soldier, a deep orange flower stuck in the band of his helmet, asks as he takes time out from battle to fix some rice for a meager lunch: "Where are all the medicines? We don't see them out here. They are on the black market...
Cambodia. Counting today, Lon Nol has little more than 16 days left in power. Both the American bomber pilots and Prince Sihanouk and the Khmer Rouge will be back home very very soon...
...Died. Lon Chancy Jr., 67, son of Hollywood's greatest movie monster and something of a real horror in his own right; in San Clemente, Calif. Chaney, originally a character actor, created the role of the Wolf Man. But among his finest performances were Lennie, the clumsy, stupid giant in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men (1940), and the arthritic marshal in High Noon...