Word: lon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PHNOM PENH (DNSI) -Included in President Nixon's $255 million request for aid to Cambodia is $70 worth of economic aid running until June 30, 1971. This assistance is essential to the survival of the Lon Nol regime...
There seems no doubt that the Lon Nol government is in serious trouble. Communist forces have made sweeping gains and have forced the establishment of a "Lon Nol line," which concedes most of the north and north-east to the communists. There are virtually no roads permanently safe for travel. Reliable estimates place no more than 20 per cent of the country under Lon Nol's control...
...major factor is increasing disillusionment with Lon Nol among the intellectuals who were the original mainstay of his regime. The most common complaint heard among them is that he is devoting all of his energies to the war, and that little is being done in any other field...
...behavior of South Vietnamese troops has also posed a serious threat. The major emotional fuel for the war to date has been anti-Vietnamese feelings successfully directed against the "North Vietnamese" and "VC" by Lon...
Despite all this equipment, the drive to capture Highway 4 from the North Vietnamese has not been very successful. Cambodia President Lon Nol will go to Saigon today to discuss the deteriorating situation in his country with allied officials...