Word: lons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attack on Communist forces across the Laotian border. The presumed goal: to dislodge the enemy from his sanctuary and interrupt a heavy flow of supplies, as was done in Cambodia last spring (see THE WORLD). An evident further goal: to reduce Communist pressure on the regime of Cambodian Premier Lon Nol. Such a campaign, pitting Saigon's forces against North Vietnamese regulars and other Communist troops on the Ho Chi Minh Trail through southern Laos, would involve high stakes. Among the possibilities would be a serious defeat for the South Vietnamese army or, conversely, an ARVN victory that could...
...President must keep Hanoi sufficiently off balance to avert any military disaster until American forces are well clear. Thus the rationale for the Cambodian and Laotian air actions. What disturbs antiwar critics, though, is that the U.S. has increasingly put itself in the position of preserving the Lon Nol government...
...before the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that "we will use, as necessary, sea and air resources to supplement the efforts and the armed forces of our friends and allies who are determined to resist aggression." That seemed to pledge considerable military might, short of ground forces, to secure Lon Nol or a similarly inclined Cambodian leader. Two days later Rogers said: "The U.S. is not fighting for the defense of Cambodia. The U.S. is fighting to protect American soldiers in Viet...
...last broke a two-month Communist hammer lock on vital Route 4. Hours later Air Cambodge's Caravelle jetliner flagship touched down at Phnom-Penh's Pochentong Airport, a sunny complex eight miles outside the capital. As he stepped out of the Caravelle, moon-faced Premier Lon Nol seemed pleased with his two-day trip to Saigon, during which he and his South Vietnamese allies had made a start toward settling some nagging differences...
...hardly a siege, and certainly nothing like Corregidor or Leningrad. Still, over the past two months Communist troops have managed to threaten Phnom-Penh with isolation by severing some of its main links with the outside world. The Cambodian capital's plight is an acute embarrassment to the Lon Nol regime, whose eager but not always effective 160,000-man army has been unable to reopen the vital arteries without outside help. Last week, in what has become a familiar pattern since much of the Indochina war shifted to Cambodia last spring, Phnom-Penh...