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Calming Effect. While the Administration agonized over a response to Lon Nol, it allowed the South Vietnamese to send about 1,500 captured Soviet-designed AK-47 automatic rifles to the Cambodian army. Senator William Fulbright's Foreign Relations Committee sought an explanation from Secretary of State William Rogers-and then, without waiting for his promised testimony this week, ordered two staff members to go to Cambodia to investigate any U.S. involvement. Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie complained that linking troop withdrawals to events in Cambodia and Laos was to "broaden our commitment" dangerously...
ONLY six weeks ago, Washington cautiously listed Cambodia as a possible plus in its Indochina ledger. No one had much faith in Premier Lon Nol's vows to clear 40,000 Communist troops from their sanctuaries near the Viet Nam border; still, it was thought that the new regime could be counted upon to make life difficult for the enemy, if nothing else. But the Cambodian army has proved weaker than anyone expected, and the new regime, far from giving the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong trouble, has mainly been giving them ground...
Everywhere the Communists seemed to be able to move with impunity. The attack that really lent urgency to Lon Nol's requests for outside military aid (see THE NATION) was a show of Communist power and Cambodian impotence at Saang, a handsome French provincial town only 15 miles south of Phnom-Penh on the west bank of the Bassac River. For five days, a Viet Cong and North Vietnamese force of undetermined size-perhaps only 100 men-held the town against a force of 4,000 Cambodian troops, who arrived in a fleet of commandeered buses and trucks. Only...
Unreality. Saang is only a fast 20-minute drive from Phnom-Penh, but a curious air of unreality prevailed in the Cambodian capital. Even as Lon Nol was desperately dickering for arms, his brother Lon Non, a member of the government, was telling newsmen, "We are not worried. The Vietnamese attacks amuse us. We can hold out for years...
...painless bite it makes in a convenient extremity of its sleeping provider. Contrary to Draculan film fantasies, the vampire does not fly but tiptoes to its midnight snack in a semierect position. Judging from Miss Leen's photos of the procedure, the creature bears far more resemblance to Lon Chancy hamming up his wolf-man act than to Bela Lugosi spiraling in for an elegant neck shot. Aside from the remote possibility of contracting rabies (bats, like most mammals, can transmit the disease), the only danger from a vampire's nip is botfly larvae, parasites that cradle...