Word: lon
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These claims are all lies. The bombing, as some belated reporting from the area is starting to show, is directed against an indigenous Cambodian revolutionary movement, the Khmer Rouge, a force numbering in the hundreds of thousands which is attempting to topple the Lon Nol regime, Nixon's two-year-old creation. It is not directed against military targets, but has actually killed thousands of Cambodian people and clogged the roads in that country with tens of thousands of refugees. Nixon's bombing is a crime against peace -- a crime for which Nazi and Japanese war criminals were hanged...
Area jesters and sycophants have a field day this time of year speculating about who will receive Harvard honorary degrees at Commencement. With Harry Truman out of the running, the flunkies and lackeys are abuzz with talk of Lon Nol, the harsh dictator of Cambodia...
...Lon Nol, whose name spelled backwards is also Lon Nol, has been in power for almost three years now, kept there against the wishes of hundreds of thousands of freedom fighters by American carpet bombing...
...fire in Laos more or less in effect, that would leave only the Cambodian mess to be resolved. The U.S. hopes it can nudge Cambodia's former head of state, exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk, and Khmer insurgent leaders into talks with members of the expanded regime of Marshal Lon Nol in Phnom-Penh...
...survival of the Lon Nol government is due in large measure to continued U.S. bombing of Khmer insurgent positions. The days of that kind of help may be numbered. In the U.S. Senate last week, a majority of Republicans and Democrats voted 63-19 in favor of an amendment that would shut off funds for further bombing of Cambodia. The House passed a similar though less sweeping measure in early May. When and if the two houses approve a compromise version, Congress will, for the first time, be united in formal opposition to continued U.S. fighting in Southeast Asia...