Word: lon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CRIMINAL BOMBING of Cambodia continues unabated. American air strikes, aimed at shoring up the tottering Lon Nol regime, are purportedly prompted by the presence in Cambodia of North Vietnamese and National Liberation Front troops. Yet observers in recent days have exposed the American-Lon Nol claims as lies. They have confirmed what was suspected all along: The continuing war in Cambodia is being joined not by Vietnamese invaders, but by indigenous guerrilla forces, the Khmer Rouge...
...dictatorial Lon Nol regime reorganized itself last week, reportedly at the behest of the United States. The reorganization is supposed to pave the way for negotiations with the liberation armies who have surrounded the capital of Phnom Penh and threatened the survival of the Cambodian dictatorship...
...reorganization scarcely broadened the base of the Lon Nol government. Reminiscent of the countless cabinet shuffles in the South Vietnamese government in the middle sixties, the move makes no attempt to recognize the surging agrarian social revolution in the countryside...
...this year, Thieu said that in Cambodia "there are now three to eight thousand Khmer-Rouge, and the 50,000 North Vietnamese." Because the situation in Cambodia may endanger Thieu's own position, he insisted that the United States should continue to give air support to the Lon Nol regime. The same line of argument had been advanced by Defense Secretary Richardson a few days earlier when he admitted that the collapse of the Cambodian government would have a "significant" effect on the viability of the Thieu regime in South Vietnam...
...this kind of round-about logic, the United States is now bombing Cambodia to protect the viability of the Thieu regime in South Vietnam. It is now bombing Laos and threatening to bomb North Vietnam to protect the viability of the Lon Nol regime in Cambodia. And one wonders what this will lead the United States to next when it claims that it will have to protect the viability of the Phouma regime in Laos...