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...neighboring Laos and South Viet Nam, such clashes have raged for the better part of a decade-and continued to rage last week. Now Cambodia, too, is fast becoming a full-fledged participant in the Indochina conflict. "There is no need for us to declare war," said Premier Lon Nol, the general who helped depose Prince Norodom Sihanouk as Chief of State last month. "It is already a fait accompli. This...
...prognosis (see THE WORLD). Since the overthrow of Prince Norodom Sihanouk three weeks ago, the capital of Phnom-Penh has lived in fear that 40,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops in Cambodia might exploit confusion in the countryside to march on the capital and upset Premier General Lon Nol's government. From his exile in Peking, Sihanouk has promised to return at the head of an army of liberation. For Washington, the dilemma is: what to do if the situation gets so bad that Lon Nol-who up to now has said that he wants no assistance...
Despite the new outbreak of fighting in Viet Nam, Cambodia seems at present to be the most dangerous situation. In the first days after the overthrow of Prince Sihanouk by Premier General Lon Nol and Deputy Premier Prince Sirik Matak, there was next to no opposition to the new regime. But during the past two weeks, violent pro-Sihanouk demonstrations have taken place in at least half a dozen rural areas. The worst outbreak known thus far occurred in the town of Kompong Cham, where Vietnamese agitators led a pro-Sihanouk riot. Before Cambodian troops could put down the fighting...
Down to Size. Styling itself a "government of salvation," the regime of General Lon Nol, the Premier, and Prince Sirik Matak, the Deputy Premier, moved to persuade Cambodia of the rightness of its rule. In meetings with major national groups-leading Buddhist bonzes, district chiefs, students and members of Sihanouk's own political movement, the Sangkum-the new leaders explained their actions in detail and stressed the economic difficulties and moral corruption of recent years. Key Sihanouk backers were jailed...
...Army Affair. An equally serious difficulty was the Communist Vietnamese military presence. Before Sihanouk's fall, Lon Nol called on the Communists to evacuate their Cambodian sanctuaries immediately. That demand was not emphasized publicly after the takeover. Nonetheless, Sirik Matak told TIME Correspondent Burton Pines in Phnom-Penh that getting rid of the Communist forces remained a primary goal. "We demand that they immediately leave our territory," the prince said. "Sihanouk violated his own-and our-proclaimed policy of neutralism by permitting the Vietnamese foreigners to stay inside Cambodia. We cannot tolerate it. We have every expectation that this...