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...trail of bodies in the Mekong added a particularly grisly new dimension to the war in Indochina. Other events through the week appeared to presage a widening of that seemingly endless conflict. The new government of Cambodian Premier General Lon Nol, reeling under widespread Communist border attacks, issued a plea to the world for military aid. In South Viet Nam, the Communists intensified their rocket attacks as part of a spring campaign that may peak about May 19, Ho Chi Minh's birthday. For a moment, however, there was the flickering hope of a diplomatic breakthrough...
River Trap. The government's need to boost morale by any means possible is accentuated by its military failures. Sihanouk had allowed the Communists more or less a free run in Cambodia's border provinces. The Lon Nol government seized power with the announced purpose of finally ridding the nation of the Vietnamese intruders. Today, however, the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong control perhaps twice as much Cambodian territory as they did a month ago. Minister of Information Trinh Hoanh admits uncomfortably: "Before, the Communists weren't occupying our territory. They'd come...
...neighboring Laos and South Viet Nam, such clashes have raged for the better part of a decade-and continued to rage last week. Now Cambodia, too, is fast becoming a full-fledged participant in the Indochina conflict. "There is no need for us to declare war," said Premier Lon Nol, the general who helped depose Prince Norodom Sihanouk as Chief of State last month. "It is already a fait accompli. This...
...prognosis (see THE WORLD). Since the overthrow of Prince Norodom Sihanouk three weeks ago, the capital of Phnom-Penh has lived in fear that 40,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops in Cambodia might exploit confusion in the countryside to march on the capital and upset Premier General Lon Nol's government. From his exile in Peking, Sihanouk has promised to return at the head of an army of liberation. For Washington, the dilemma is: what to do if the situation gets so bad that Lon Nol-who up to now has said that he wants no assistance...
Despite the new outbreak of fighting in Viet Nam, Cambodia seems at present to be the most dangerous situation. In the first days after the overthrow of Prince Sihanouk by Premier General Lon Nol and Deputy Premier Prince Sirik Matak, there was next to no opposition to the new regime. But during the past two weeks, violent pro-Sihanouk demonstrations have taken place in at least half a dozen rural areas. The worst outbreak known thus far occurred in the town of Kompong Cham, where Vietnamese agitators led a pro-Sihanouk riot. Before Cambodian troops could put down the fighting...