Word: mekong
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...week long they bobbed and drifted with the slow currents of the Mekong River, a seemingly endless procession of floating death. They appeared singly at first, then in grotesque flotillas of as many as 50 bodies bound together by rope. After days of immersion in the brown waters of the Mekong and exposure to Cambodia's blazing sun, they were barely recognizable, but it was clear that the victims, mostly young men, were Vietnamese. They were slaughtered in what has suddenly turned into Southeast Asia's latest horror: a Cambodian pogrom against the country...
...respond to a seemingly endless series of burned villages, burned babies, mass slayings of civilians? We become spiritually calloused, deadened, unable to face another newsclip of a dying soldier squirming in the mud he has reddened with his blood and intestines, or of ten thousand bodies floating down the Mekong River to the sea. The seven men and two women at Catonsville could not forget...
...North Vietnamese and Viet Cong control of five of Svay Rieng province's six districts. They already dominate much of the eastern border provinces of Kratie and Kompong Cham. Some Cambodians fear, in fact, that the Communists are determined to control all the territory east of the Mekong River, which amounts to roughly one-third of the country's real estate...
...case, the North Vietnamese have come to rely increasingly on their sanctuaries in Cambodia as a staging area for troops near Saigon and in the Mekong Delta. The chance to forbid them that safe haven tempts Washington. Yet attractive tactical opportunities can boomerang, as has happened in Laos. Anti-Communist forces there swept the enemy from the Plain of Jars last year, only to see them come back stronger than ever...
...peasantry, particularly the landless tenant farmers. Well aware of the issue's importance, the Viet Cong have long made a point of redistributing land under their control. A succession of Saigon governments paid due obeisance to the ideal of land reform, but did nothing. Last week, in the Mekong Delta center of Can Tho, President Nguyen Van Thieu signed into law a land-reform bill that, he said, would help "each tenant to become a landowner enjoying a prosperous life. This will open a new era for the nation...