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PHNOM PENH (DNSI) -Included in President Nixon's $255 million request for aid to Cambodia is $70 worth of economic aid running until June 30, 1971. This assistance is essential to the survival of the Lon Nol regime...
There seems no doubt that the Lon Nol government is in serious trouble. Communist forces have made sweeping gains and have forced the establishment of a "Lon Nol line," which concedes most of the north and north-east to the communists. There are virtually no roads permanently safe for travel. Reliable estimates place no more than 20 per cent of the country under Lon Nol's control...
Despite all this equipment, the drive to capture Highway 4 from the North Vietnamese has not been very successful. Cambodia President Lon Nol will go to Saigon today to discuss the deteriorating situation in his country with allied officials...
...intensity. There the Communist forces, composed primarily of North Vietnamese regulars, plus some Viet Cong and Cambodian Khmer Rouge, are as determined as ever to isolate the capital of Phnom-Penh from the rest of the country and thus discredit or even oust the "salvation government" of Premier Lon...
...days passed, the enemy hit the schoolyard with .50-cal. machine-gun bullets, mortars, and a giant 122-mm. rocket that toppled a 60-ft. tree. At the height of the battle, Srey Yar sent a radio message to Lon Nol promising that he and his men would not surrender. Even though they ran short of ammunition and food, and were outnumbered by about 5 to 1, they kept their word, but the cost was fearfully high. Of the 400 Cambodians, 50 were killed and 300 wounded, including 114 critically. Estimates of enemy soldiers killed ranged from...