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Tragic Effort. The hard fact is that the government of Cambodia's Lon Nol is tenuous at best and probably ultimately untenable. South Viet Nam has far stronger moral claims on U.S. support, and, until this week at least, seemed to have far greater strength to resist. But in Viet Nam too, U.S. military aid cannot go on indefinitely. President Ford's suggestion of three more years and $5.5 billion is undoubtedly too much for Congress. On the other hand, the proposal to cut off military aid by June 30 would end the help too abruptly. Dates...
...March 18 five years ago, President Lon Nol led the coup in Phnom-Penh that forced neutralist Prince Norodom Sihanouk into exile. Last week rockets fired by the Khmer Rouge insurgents kept raining down on the besieged capital, more embassies closed, students demonstrated and a unit of loyalist troops went on strike, but somehow the government survived for another week despite a growing awareness that the U.S. Congress was not about to authorize any more military aid. Meanwhile, there were speculations that Lon Nol may be quitting as President within the next two weeks...
...live, he testifies, if you hadn't lived in Stavisky's world. In the end, he tilts the film's sympathies towards Stavisky, towards a feeling that these hollow thirties--when every glass of champagne must have had something of the clink heard in Phnom Penh last week as Lon Nol toasted his new chief of staff--were a hothouse for a kind of life different from anything we can experience...
While there is little information about the Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in Cambodia, they now control almost the entire country, and their support is increasing. Sydney Schanberg's reports in The New York Times of corruption in the Lon Nol government make it clear that the forces opposed to Lon Nol's policies are fighting for the people of Cambodia...
...said that if Cambodia falls because of our lack of aid to Phnom-Penh, our credibility will fall in the eyes of the world. But is our credibility really worth more to us than the people who are dying because we are supporting the corrupt government of President Lon...