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...past two weeks, pressure has been continually building on Lon Nol to resign or at least leave the country. The majority of his generals have been increasingly open in urging the President to go. So have been most of the cabinet and nearly all members of the bicameral National Assembly. An ad hoc coalition of top Cabinet and military leaders, in frequent audiences with Lon Nol, have been trying to convince him that his continued presence in the capital could lead to an eventual bloodbath...
...Lon Nol remains adamant and refuses to leave, it is in part because he has ensconced himself in his tightly guarded...
Camcar Mon Palace and is surrounded by toadying sycophants who have encouraged him to hang onto power and shield him from bad news. A dialogue with the President has often assumed a sense of unreality. TIME Correspondent David Aikman reported this recent exchange between Lon Nol and Lieut. General Saukam Khoy, president of Cambodia's Senate and Lon Nol's most likely successor...
...Lon Nol: We should stay and fight...
...Lon Nol: You should know. You're a military...