Word: lon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration's Indochina policies contend that foreign aid has been the forerunner of U.S. military involvement, and despite the Nixon Doctrine, this could happen again. They were sharply opposed, for example, to the inclusion of $341 million in aid to sustain the shaky government of Premier Lon Nol in Cambodia. They were also angered at the Administration's all-out and successful effort to defeat the Cooper-Church amendment, which would have forbidden any use of U.S. funds in Indochina except to withdraw U.S. troops. This lost by only three votes as White House officials threatened a Nixon...
...Khmer Republic enters its second year, two overriding problems face the regime of Premier Lon Nol: a war that has claimed 5,000 Cambodian lives and a rising chorus of domestic critics upset by Phnom-Penh's sluggish response to inflation and corruption...
...elections. Cambodians are still not happy with the large presence of Vietnamese-from both the North (60,000 troops) and the South (10,000)-on their soil. There have been widespread reports of terrorism, rape, murder and pillaging by South Vietnamese. In an interview with TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud, Lon Nol acknowledged that his government is negotiating with Saigon for the removal of South Vietnamese troops...
...class, civil servants, students and intellectuals has not on the whole been directed against him personally. But his response has been harsh. He fired First Vice Premier In Tam and stripped him of his brigadier general's rank. In Tam is widely respected as an incorruptible politician, but Lon Nol apparently feared that he would be an eventual rival...
Nonetheless, Lon Nol appears buoyantly confident. "We Khmers have always had two very important things in our favor," he said two weeks ago. "First is our race. Second is our religion. Now we have a third: the way we defend ourselves." With, of course, a little help from their friends...