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Woodside, a Southeast Asian expert, said peace will hinge on whether the Nixon Administration accepts the need to deal with Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who was deposed in 1970 by the present Lon No1 government...
Woodside said he doubted whether the Lon No1 government would survive even with continued American bombing. He explained that Sihanouk appears to be the only person with ties to both the Khmer Rouge Cambodian revolutionary movement and the international community-- connections upon which a stable peace must necessarily be founded...
Woodside and Thomson agreed that the Lon Nol government will eventually fall, giving way in all likelihood to a left-wing government headed by Sihanouk that will adopt an independent stance in foreign affairs...
These claims are all lies. The bombing, as some belated reporting from the area is starting to show, is directed against an indigenous Cambodian revolutionary movement, the Khmer Rouge, a force numbering in the hundreds of thousands which is attempting to topple the Lon Nol regime, Nixon's two-year-old creation. It is not directed against military targets, but has actually killed thousands of Cambodian people and clogged the roads in that country with tens of thousands of refugees. Nixon's bombing is a crime against peace -- a crime for which Nazi and Japanese war criminals were hanged...
...Lon Nol, whose name spelled backwards is also Lon Nol, has been in power for almost three years now, kept there against the wishes of hundreds of thousands of freedom fighters by American carpet bombing...