Word: lon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anti-Communist regime of Premier Lon Nol announced that it had invited Thailand to send several thousand troops to help defend it against attack from the increasingly wide-ranging Communist troops. South Viet Nam, besides moving ARVN regulars into Cambodia to clean out the sanctuaries, has ordered all available troops from its own Khmer minority to take up the defense of their ancestral home, and about 2,000 are in Cambodia...
...monuments or an attack if they were taken. One rumor had it that the deposed chief of state, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, might try to move his exile government to Siem Reap. Most observers figured, however, that the Communists picked the temple area as a target to embarrass Lon Nol's government and would not try to hold...
...that the Red Khmers and the Cambodian resistance is not yet as strong as the Laotians and the Vietnamese, and that his policy of intimidation-by-genocide may work there. In any case, it is clear that the attacks in Cambodia were directed against the rural opposition to the Lon Nol government...
...expect the South Vietnamese to pull back within a few weeks of the G.I.s' departure. But Saigon's forces will be ready to clear out the sanctuaries again if it should be considered necessary. Both Saigon and Washington also want to prevent a Communist overthrow of the Lon Nol regime; the Nixon Administration would be pleased if the Cambodians, South Vietnamese and possibly the Thais do whatever ground fighting has to be done on that score. Apparently the highflying U.S. bombing raids will continue to hit any Communist buildups in the sanctuaries. The ban against U.S. advisers operating...
...they are sending a 30-man delegation to Phnom-Penh this week to size up Cambodia's needs. Indonesia and South Korea may also lend a hand. As for the U.S., Administration spokesmen insist that Washington will stick to its pledge to avoid direct support of the Lon Nol regime. Still there were suspicions that the U.S. would provide air support beyond June...