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...Pnomh Penh, Gen. Lon Nol was reported in fair condition after suffering a heart attack Tuesday. One half of his body is reportedly paralyzed, and he will be inactive for at least one month...
...President must keep Hanoi sufficiently off balance to avert any military disaster until American forces are well clear. Thus the rationale for the Cambodian and Laotian air actions. What disturbs antiwar critics, though, is that the U.S. has increasingly put itself in the position of preserving the Lon Nol government...
...before the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that "we will use, as necessary, sea and air resources to supplement the efforts and the armed forces of our friends and allies who are determined to resist aggression." That seemed to pledge considerable military might, short of ground forces, to secure Lon Nol or a similarly inclined Cambodian leader. Two days later Rogers said: "The U.S. is not fighting for the defense of Cambodia. The U.S. is fighting to protect American soldiers in Viet...
...after skirmish, the Cambodian regime's 160,000-man army has proved unable to hold its own against Communist forces without American support in the air and help from the South Vietnamese on the ground. After the spectacular raids on Pochentong airport and targets in Phnom-Penh, Premier Lon Nol was described by his aides as "depressed." He could not have been particularly heartened either by exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk's remark that in a year or two Cambodia will "fall by itself like a ripe fruit...
Despite White House assertions that there is no U.S. commitment to ensure the survival of the Lon Nol government, the Administration seems determined to prove Sihanouk wrong. Soon after the Pochentong disaster, the Pentagon sent two new UH-1 ("Huey") helicopters to Phnom-Penh-a start at rebuilding the broken Cambodian air force. Within the limits imposed by Congress, the Administration is sending in military specialists. An American demolition team has arrived in Phnom-Penh, much to the relief of Cambodian demolition men, who have been sighted in the capital, standing over unexploded terrorist grenades and bombs while puzzling through...