Word: lonli
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...major factor is increasing disillusionment with Lon Nol among the intellectuals who were the original mainstay of his regime. The most common complaint heard among them is that he is devoting all of his energies to the war, and that little is being done in any other field...
...behavior of South Vietnamese troops has also posed a serious threat. The major emotional fuel for the war to date has been anti-Vietnamese feelings successfully directed against the "North Vietnamese" and "VC" by Lon...
...Lon Nol government has largely financed itself to date through exactly that-printing money. Now, however, much of its reserves has been eaten...
...thousands of hectares of rice and other crops have been abandoned. Rubber plantations, producers of most of Cambodia's foreign exchange, lie in ruins. Senate investigators estimate that nearly a million Cambodians have been made refugees in the last six months, and the problems of supporting them add to Lon Nol's difficulties. The population of Phnom Penh alone has nearly double to over a million. And the 400,000 Vietnamese who played a key role in the Cambodian economy have been made refugees or killed...
These commodities and funds to purchase them will be made available to the Lon Nol regime, which by selling them on the local market will hopefully acquire enough of its local currency, the riel, to finance its military activities...