Word: lonli
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...CRIMINAL BOMBING of Cambodia continues unabated. American air strikes, aimed at shoring up the tottering Lon Nol regime, are purportedly prompted by the presence in Cambodia of North Vietnamese and National Liberation Front troops. Yet observers in recent days have exposed the American-Lon Nol claims as lies. They have confirmed what was suspected all along: The continuing war in Cambodia is being joined not by Vietnamese invaders, but by indigenous guerrilla forces, the Khmer Rouge...
...dictatorial Lon Nol regime reorganized itself last week, reportedly at the behest of the United States. The reorganization is supposed to pave the way for negotiations with the liberation armies who have surrounded the capital of Phnom Penh and threatened the survival of the Cambodian dictatorship...
...reorganization scarcely broadened the base of the Lon Nol government. Reminiscent of the countless cabinet shuffles in the South Vietnamese government in the middle sixties, the move makes no attempt to recognize the surging agrarian social revolution in the countryside...
...itself, a feat that the Communists probably could not accomplish anyway because they do not have the troops to do it. Rather the aim is to bring the war as close to the capital as possible, in the hope that civil unrest will lead to the fall of Marshal Lon Nol's regime...
Washington officials believe that the Cambodian army's weakness is directly related to the government's lack of broad public support, but Marshal Lon Nol still denies that any such problem exists. His troops "are making firm resistance against the aggressors," he insists. The U.S. has already prevailed on Lon Nol to accept the Cabinet resignation of his abrasive younger brother Lon Non. Next it would like to see the President give an important post in the government to Prince Sirik Matak, a respected soldier who helped lead the 1970 coup that installed Lon...