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...CAPTURE of Phnom Penh last week by the Khmer Rouge is a victory for the Cambodian people over the corrupt Lon Nol regime and the imperialist American policies that supported it. When the Lon No 1 government surrendered, Khmer Rouge and former government troops embraced, signalling an end to the suffering of the Cambodian people after five long years of war. The new Cambodian government holds out the hope of social reform and simple honesty that were absent under Lon No 1. For that reason alone, those in this country who support national self-determination for Cambodia should consider...
...there is work to be done in Cambodia. Large portions of the countryside are still in ruins due to American bombing. Thousands of refugees, needing food and medical supplies, are still crowded into Phnom Penh and will have to gradually return to their homes. Khmer Rouge spokesmen said last week that the new government will regard the U.S. with caution, but they left open the possibility of good relations in the future and American aid in the days immediately ahead. The U.S. should seize this opportunity to begin repairing the devastation our policies and actions have brought to Cambodia...
...emergency aid to Cambodia. The President merely promised, in a later statement, to do "whatever possible to support an independent, peaceful, neutral and unified Cambodia." At the same time, advised that there was no alternative, Ford, "with a heavy heart," ordered Americans to be helicoptered out of Phnom-Penh by a U.S. naval force that had been on station in the Gulf of Siam for more than a month against such an eventuality...
...Ambassador John Gunther Dean, climbing aboard one of the 36 helicopters used to ferry the evacuees out, carried in his arms the American flag that had flown over his embassy in Phnom-Penh until the previous sun set. Among the Cambodians who left was Acting President Saukam Khoy, along with his family. Premier Long Boret, in a radio broadcast shortly afterward, said that the flight demonstrated Saukam Khoy's lack of leadership. The premier added that a provisional high committee had been set up to run the country and the Acting President was no longer recognized. Actually, control...
...night before the evacuation it was pretty clear that the next day would be it. The American embassy spread word to newsmen who would go to gather at the Phnom Hotel, Phnom-Penh's journalistic watering hole, at 7 a.m. The night was relatively calm. No Cambodians could have guessed that the U.S. was about to abandon them...