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...situation in Cambodia is so grave that it is hard to find an optimistic military assessment around Phnom-Penh. The army of President Lon Nol is not performing well. Even with the intense U.S. bombing, the insurgents merely take their losses and keep on coming. A well-informed Western intelligence officer observes that "while the government's forces have been going downhill, the insurgents have been improving." Even usually optimistic Premier In Tam candidly allowed that the military situation was going "from bad to worse." Villagers flee devastated hamlets as American warplanes drone overhead. Roads leading to Phnom-Penh...
Cambodia. Counting today, Lon Nol has little more than 16 days left in power. Both the American bomber pilots and Prince Sihanouk and the Khmer Rouge will be back home very very soon...
...Died. Lon Chancy Jr., 67, son of Hollywood's greatest movie monster and something of a real horror in his own right; in San Clemente, Calif. Chaney, originally a character actor, created the role of the Wolf Man. But among his finest performances were Lennie, the clumsy, stupid giant in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men (1940), and the arthritic marshal in High Noon...
Cambodia. Khmer Rouge revolutionaries last week pressed their assaults to within ten miles of the capital at Phnom Penh. Lon Nol has only 27 days left in power...
...Lon Nol, the dictator of Cambodia. Lon Nol, if all goes well, will be off the list a few days after August 15, when the American bombing that has kept him in power against the wishes of several hundred thousand freedom fighters is ended...