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...time of the allied assault, the Communists were involved in a conflict with the six-week-old Phnom-Penh government of Premier Lon Nol, which had overthrown Prince Norodom Sihanouk on March 18 and had ordered all North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops to give up their Cambodian sanctuaries and leave the country. Moving westward so as to put pressure on Lon Nol not to interfere with their refuges and their supply lines, the Communists started seizing territory on the way to the Mekong River. In effect, they turned their backs on South Viet Nam; as Secretary of Defense Melvin...
...precipitate permanent warfare on Cambodian soil? North Vietnamese and Viet Cong plans in Cambodia, beyond their aim of regaining use of the sanctuaries, are still far from clear. The U.S. raids obviously weakened the 40,000 Communist troops in Cambodia, but not enough to keep them from placing the Lon Nol government "in a very difficult position," as the U.S. chargé d'affaires in Phnom-Penh, Lloyd M. Rives, puts it mildly. The Communist rampages through Cambodia's towns that began before the U.S. moved against the sanctuaries constituted open aggression against a neutral state. Unfortunately...
...three-month-old regime of Premier Lon Nol was faced with the fight of its life. Daily strikes by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops throughout the country could no longer be considered just random harassment designed to wear out Cambodia's army. Instead, the Communists seemed to have embarked upon a new all-out strategy designed to strangle Phnom-Penh. Diplomats in Cambodia speculated that the Communists had decided to try to overthrow the Lon Nol government as quickly as possible -probably within six months...
...that the Red Khmers and the Cambodian resistance is not yet as strong as the Laotians and the Vietnamese, and that his policy of intimidation-by-genocide may work there. In any case, it is clear that the attacks in Cambodia were directed against the rural opposition to the Lon Nol government...
...invaded the Plain of Jars in Laos, then they invaded Cambodia. Such recklessness invites reprisals." Reckless or not, the U.S. foray is not the only reason that the Communists are on the move in Cambodia. The overthrow of Sihanouk was bound to provoke some countermeasures from the Communists, and Lon Nol's government might not have lasted even this long if the U.S. had stayed out of the sanctuaries. But one consequence...