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...invasion provoked their campaign or whether the Communists would have begun swallowing big chunks of Cambodia anyway in the confusion that followed the ouster of Prince Norodom Sihanouk. What is abundantly clear is that the Communists pose a lethal challenge to the wobbly anti-Communist government of Premier Lon Nol. Unless Cambodia receives a quick transfusion of aid, South Viet Nam could well find itself flanked by another Communist government...
Hollow Victory. What does Cambodia need to survive? Says one U.S. diplomat: "Time, more than anything else." The current monsoon season gives an added advantage to the Communists, who live off the land and move on foot through the oceans of mud that bog down army vehicles. If Lon Nol can hang on until the rains end in September without losing much more territory, he will have achieved a significant victory...
Ruling Authority. Politically, the government has profited from a wave of Khmer nationalism that swept Cambodia after the overthrow of Sihanouk, who was put on trial in absentia last week on charges of "endangering the security of the Cambodian nation." But Lon Nol, whose regime came to power with the support of the urban middle class and intellectuals, has yet to win widespread loyalty in the countryside. Already the peasants in some contested areas reportedly have given food to the Communist guerrillas. Critics in the National Assembly charge that the government has been too slow in re-establishing its presence...
...then, it appears that President Nixon acted in Cambodia on the advice of his generals that here was a relatively cheap and opportune way to hurt the enemy and thus secure if not hasten U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam. An ancillary benefit might be the propping up of the Lon Nol government. The short-run military objectives have been achieved, at considerably less cost in U.S. lives than military planners anticipated. In the long run, the fate of the Lon Nol government hangs largely on the whim of Hanoi-which is why, in all his justifications of the border crossing...
...government of Premier Lon Nol, under increasing pressure from the harder-lining elements in the National Assembly to strengthen the war effort, declared national mobilization. A decree ordered every Cambodian man and woman between the ages of 18 and 60 to aid the national defense and made all property subject to confiscation. It will probably be many months before Cambodia's swollen army of some 120,000 men-only half of whom have even been issued weapons -can absorb new recruits. Moreover, the nation needs its citizens for productive labor almost as desperately as it needs them for fighting...