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...some time, Laos and Cambodia have served as massive conduits for the flow of men and supplies from North Viet Nam to the southern battlegrounds. There is, of course, the spidery Ho Chi Minh Trail, threading into South Viet Nam from more than half a dozen points in Laos and Cambodia. There is also the Cambodian port of Sihanoukville, through which, according to some estimates, the Communists get fully 80% of their supplies for the war in the lower half of South Viet Nam. Much of the matériel is brought in aboard Chinese and Soviet freighters and moved...
...promised at Key Biscayne that there would be no commitment of U.S. ground troops to that country, but airpower is something else. A major reason that the U.S. is in Laos is to carry out bombing raids on North Vietnamese troops and supplies heading south on the Ho Chi Minh Trail...
...JUNE, '68. You asked how close Muong Soui is to Viet Nam-not close at all, but it is within sight of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. There is a war going on in Laos, and it is difficult to tell who is fighting...
...sanction of authorities on the scene, seemed to go much farther than the Prince's delicate balancing act permitted. With an estimated 40,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops in Sihanouk's country, many of them protecting the southern terminus of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, Hanoi is certain to be alarmed by any threat to its Cambodian sanctuary...
Five years ago, Sihanouk feared that the U.S. might extend the war into eastern Cambodia. Today, he has reason to fear that the Communists have dug into that region permanently: some Communist troops have built houses and staked out farms near the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Hanoi obviously has no intention of abandoning its bases-despite a Cambodian government demand at week's end flatly that all Communist troops leave within 48 hours. Cambodia, of course, lacks the muscle to enforce that order. In any event, whoever was behind the riots, it is clear that both Sihanouk...