Word: lon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon may do−short of recommitting U.S. ground troops to Indochina. Defense Secretary Elliot Richardson has made it clear that, if sufficiently provoked, the U.S. will send the bombers over North Viet Nam again. It is also possible that South Vietnamese troops might go to the aid of Lon...
...same time, the White House is trying to shore up the Lon Nol regime (see THE WORLD). But there are limits to U.S. intervention. The White House has no intention of repeating the kind of action that led to the bloody overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem in South Viet Nam. One possibility is a return to power of deposed Prince Norodom Sihanouk. No one wants this more than Sihanouk, who just arrived back in Peking after a month-long visit to insurgent-held areas in Cambodia, where he tried to drum up support among the various factions...
Every day last week the electricity went off until sundown, stilling the whirling fans and air conditioners in the breathless heat. Grim-faced American officials shuttled in and out of the palace of Cambodian President Lon Nol. Battle reports proved contradictory and inconclusive. The British, Australians and Japanese evacuated their women and children. Beside the pool of the Hotel Le Phnom (the former Royal), reporters talked of the possibility of a guerrilla attack on the airport, the television station or some other suitable target to coincide with the Buddhist New Year's holiday. This was Phnom-Penh under siege...
...itself, a feat that the Communists probably could not accomplish anyway because they do not have the troops to do it. Rather the aim is to bring the war as close to the capital as possible, in the hope that civil unrest will lead to the fall of Marshal Lon Nol's regime...
Washington officials believe that the Cambodian army's weakness is directly related to the government's lack of broad public support, but Marshal Lon Nol still denies that any such problem exists. His troops "are making firm resistance against the aggressors," he insists. The U.S. has already prevailed on Lon Nol to accept the Cabinet resignation of his abrasive younger brother Lon Non. Next it would like to see the President give an important post in the government to Prince Sirik Matak, a respected soldier who helped lead the 1970 coup that installed Lon...