Word: lon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resistance leaders also refused to participate in the so-called "cessation of offensive operations" proposed several days later by the U.S. backed regime of General Lon No1. No less a personage than Sirik Matak, former premier under Lon No1 and favorite of U.S. Embassy officials in Phnom Penh who was purged last year reportedly at the insistence of Lon No1's brother Lon Non, has said that Lon No1's January overtures were a "bluff." His former employer intended to force the Sihanoukist forces to surrender before the holding of elections, he stated in a March 23 interview with...
...pilot, a flying-school reject named So Potra who also happened to be the lover of one of Sihanouk's 13 children, escaped by winging off to a landing field somewhere in Communist-held eastern Cambodia. U.S.-backed President Lon Nol went on the radio and denounced the attack as "a clear attempt to kill me." He decreed a state of emergency, fired his air force chief for negligence, rounded up scores of the usual suspects and placed about 20 of Sihanouk's relatives under house arrest. In Washington, officials gloomily described the situation in terms ranging from...
...similarity between Cambodia today and South Viet Nam in the early 1960s. Saigon was then ruled by the aloof and autocratic Ngo Dinh Diem and his ambitious younger brother Ngo Dinh Nhu; they were toppled in a 1963 coup that had active U.S. encouragement. Cambodia has the somewhat mystical Lon Nol, paralyzed on his left side as the result of a 1971 stroke, and his younger brother Lon Non, a vain and ruthless army general. Lon Non is now the regime's strongman, having won a power struggle with a rival whom most U.S. officials still regard...
...Lon Nol-Lon Non team has been ineffective both against the insurgents, who now control more than half of the countryside, and against corruption and inflation. The result is a spreading disaffection among students, intellectuals and government workers. Indeed, some 45,000 teachers and students have been on strike for the past month in protest against soaring living costs. Shortly before the bombing of the palace, army goons loyal to Lon Non invaded a student meeting and killed two youths with hand grenades...
...Indochina, American bombing continues throughout Cambodia and Laos. Dozens of sorties are flown daily to support the troops of Cambodian dictator Lon Nol. In Laos, while we anticipate a peace supposedly at hand, American war planes last week launched over 380 massive raids...