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Semantic Exercise. In any case, the most serious threat is still in Cambodia. Partly because the Lon Nol government has not even attempted to establish a presence much beyond Phnom-Penh, Communist recruitment efforts in the countryside are thought to be going very well. Substantial aid from Thailand has yet to materialize, and Cambodian officials warn that their government could fall within six months without more U.S. support...
...with the exception of South Viet Nam, have so far failed to offer a convincing riposte to a Communist challenge that has been intensifying since Prince Norodom Sihanouk was ousted more than four months ago. Their reluctance was all too clear last week, when Sihanouk's successor, Premier Lon Nol, paid his first visit to Bangkok as Cambodian head of state. After months of pleading for immediate help from a government that is even more anti-Communist than his own, the best that he could get was a vague promise from Thai Premier Thanom Kittika-chorn that some...
Something happened to the Thais on the way to the rescue. In May, when Cambodia's Premier Lon Nol began broadcasting SOS signals, the Thais intimated that substantial help would soon be on the way. So far Bangkok has supplied Cambodia with only five T-28 fighter-bombers, medical supplies, boots and uniforms. On a remote island base, however, the Thais are now training a mixed group of 10,000 Thai and 2,000 Cambodian recruits, and there is talk that this division-size force could be combat-ready some time this month. Presumably, the troops could be lifted...
Last week, partially in response to such criticism, Lon Nol shuffled his Cabinet, adding eight new men and ending the unpopular practice of allowing major members of the government to head several ministries. Ruling authority in Cambodia continues to reside with him and Deputy Premier Sirik Matak...
Without cooperation from its neighbors, Cambodia is "just like Laos," said a longtime SEATO observer. "Lon Nol will survive if the Communists let him." With help, the odds could change drastically. As a White House official noted last week, there are 30 million Thais, 17 million South Vietnamese and 7,000,000 Cambodians; that collective force faces 20 million North Vietnamese who already are fighting in two other places and who are at the end of a 600-mile supply line. So far, however, those figures have not added up to much help for Cambodia in its struggle for survival...