Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Along the Mekong in northern Cambodia, Communist troops have captured Kratie and Chhlong; last week they attacked Stung Treng, a key town at the confluence of the Se Kong and the Mekong, and sent a full regiment against Kompong Cham, Cambodia's third largest city, only 50 miles northeast of Phnom-Penh...
...Phnom-Penh, but the allied quarantine of the coast may have foreclosed Hanoi's hopes of staking out new sanctuaries in the lower half of Cambodia. Attacks on the Mekong towns above Phnom-Penh confirm that most of the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong are spilling into the northeast and northwest quadrants of the country. Their temporary destination may be the quiet shores of Tonle Sap Lake, 70 miles north of Phnom-Penh. There they would be near the Cambodian rice bowl and a rich supply of fish, while waiting for a chance to move closer to the border...
...Samuel R. Williamson Jr., Special assistant to Dean May, said yesterday that the only charge that might be filed with the CRR would be against "a student we think we can identify" who kicked a hole in the door at the northeast corner of the building...
Colleges in the Northeast that shut down included Dartmouth, Princeton, M.I.T. Boston University, Brown, Tufts, and Rutgers...
...thousand American and South Vietnamese troops launched a now offensive into northeast Cambodia. To the south, in the Fishhook area, American troops met the first heavy Communist resistence since they entered Cambodia...