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Phnom-Penh, the Cambodian capital, lay encircled by Communist forces. All five highways leading to the city were under siege, and three outposts along the road to the provincial capital of Takeo had been lost. More important, the Communists had severed, for the moment at least, the vital Mekong River supply route from South Viet Nam. A convoy of about a dozen ships, already ten days overdue in the Cambodian capital, was delayed in the Vietnamese port of Vung Tau while the Cambodian armed forces and U.S. bombers tried to clear the riverbanks of enemy rocket launchers...
Thieu himself was out and around more last week than he had been in months. He flew most of his government aides-and a good part of the Saigon diplomatic corps-down to Can Tho, a city deep in the Mekong Delta, for what he called a "farmer's day" outing that was as heavy on bands, pretty girls, prize pigs and political corn as an Iowa state fair. When a 40-man bicycle race was about to start, Thieu expropriated one bike to take a turn through the crowd. "He leads a merry pace," Foreign Minister Tran...
...cease-fire violations, but only a few hundred "observations" by the ICC and virtually no unanimous decisions on which side was at fault. Of more than 40 formal cease-fire protests made by the South Vietnamese so far, only two have been investigated. In Giong Trom in the Mekong Delta, ICC delegates spent weeks trying to persuade the South Vietnamese district chief not to fire his artillery over their encampment. He finally moved his pieces, but persisted in firing into Viet Cong territory in violation of the ceasefire...
...supervisory groups were mainly still concerned about preliminary matters. Members of both the ICCS and the Joint Military Commission began meeting, working out procedural details and, in some cases, settling into field offices. At My Tho in the Mekong Delta, for example, an ICCS observer team consisting of six Canadians, five Hungarians, nine Indonesians and five Poles took over the entire third floor of the town's Grand Hotel. They set up an op erations room plastered with 20 maps of their assigned region. Then they spent most of the week arguing about how to arrange for communications, transportation...
...been "in country" for about a week when I saw my first American dead. It was a bright, sunny afternoon on a branch of the muddy Mekong. I was on one of the Navy's small converted landing craft used as staging points in the watery interior. Suddenly a sailor casually noted, "There's a floater off the stern. Hell, where's the boat hook...