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...White House confirmed yesterday that President Nixon sent a personal letter to Cambodian president Lon Nol pledging that the United States would "stand side by side" with the Cambodian government, which is currently facing renewed military offensive by the revolutionary Khmer Rouge...
...Khmer Rouge yesterday continued to escalate their current dry-season offensive, tightening their grip around a trapped Lon Nol force of about 700 men just north of Phnom Penh despite repeated helicopter strafings directed against them...
...government has budgeted $580 million in aid for the Cambodian government this year, most of it intended to equip the Lon Nol Army and keep its propeller driven warplanes aloft...
Although the Khmer Rouge have only an estimated 18,000 soldiers within 25 miles of the capital, compared to 50,000 Lon Nol troops, the revolutionaries are considered better fighters and have managed to keep the pressure...
...based on previous experience with asbestos-caused diseases, medical experts estimate that as many as 300 of the 869 employed at the plant since 1954 will die of asbestosis (a permanent and often progressive scarring of lung tissue from inhaled asbestos fibers), lung cancer or cancers of the co lon, rectum or stomach...