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...theory that "We should cease supporting the corrupt governments of Lon Nol and Thieu"-no one seems to notice how thousands upon thousands of Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees prefer those "corrupt" governments to the alternative...
...hurry him along, several insurgent rockets whistled in and exploded within 200 yds. of his plane. Cambodian President Lon Nol could delay his departure no longer. Accompanied by his wife and 26 supporters, he climbed aboard an Air Cambodge Caravelle last week for what will undoubtedly amount to permanent exile...
...were merely grotesque. Certain that the United States had been right all along and that they personally had done their part to stop Communist aggression, right-wing papers could lavish President Ford's calls for forminal military aid with the ridicule they deserved. The Chicago Tribune stated flatly that Lon Nol's "only claim to distinction" is the fact that his name is a palindrome. But the liberal papers, always less confident than their more consistent brothers, seem to have been held back by a guilty suspicion that their items might have something to do with past slaughter...
Despite the talk that he may leave the country, there was some evidence indicating Lon Nol may make a last-ditch political stand. This apparently is behind last week's decision by Lon Non, the President's ambitious and ruthless younger brother, to resign from a top army command and seek the post of secretary-general of the Social-Republican Party, the rightist backbone of Lon Nol's political support. Lon Non won a reputation for brutality when, as head of the national police, he violently suppressed student demonstrations...
...Lon Nol decides to hang on, it is because he hopes his forces can defend Phnom-Penh for three more months, until the wet season impedes the insurgents' drive. With an improved military situation, the President would expect political pressures to diminish. On the other hand, if he finally makes up his mind to leave, it may in no small measure be due to Cambodia's students. Last week, as rumors swept the capital that time had run out for the President and that a coup was imminent, leaders of the Association of Students of the Khmer Republic...