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...Miami's Airlift International, "but it makes you feel a little safer when you're on the ground." Ken Healy, a World War II Air Force pilot who now flies for World Airways of Oakland, Calif., told TIME Correspondent Peter Range: "The best time to go into Phnom-Penh is right after they've taken a few hits. We've figured out that if you haven't had another rocket for ten minutes, then you probably won't have any more for at least an hour." Healy, who ferried supplies to the Nationalist Chinese...
...airlift is plainly a last-ditch emergency operation aimed at staving off imminent collapse and not a means by which Lon Nol might win the war. With the fighting going so badly for his government, the question is inevitably raised in Phnom-Penh these days as to what kind of government Cambodia might have if the ragged peasant Khmer Rouge soldiers should come marching some time soon into a capital city that most have never seen before. Would there be a bloodbath? The evidence to date is inconclusive. Recently, the insurgents slaughtered civilians in two remote provincial towns, possibly because...
Another recurring question is who would lead a Khmer Rouge government. Exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk remains the most popular man in Cambodia and the "Premier" of the Royal Government of National Union, the Khmer Rouge shadow government nominally based in Peking where he lives. He might return to Phnom-Penh as a figurehead leader, but his influence within the Khmer Rouge movement is limited. In late 1973 all but two of the cabinet posts in the shadow government were transferred from his supporters to "members of the internal resistance" operating inside Cambodia. Apparently accepting this decline in his fortunes, Sihanouk...
...Regardless of whether he receives more emergency U.S. aid, there is little he can do except try to hold out long enough to work out some sort of settlement with his enemies. "Time is running out," U.S. Ambassador John Gunther Dean fairly shouts to Western newsmen in Phnom-Penh these days, referring to prospects for U.S. aid. It is also running out for Phnom-Penh...
...Cambodia falls, we'll all feel very bad." So said a Pentagon official last week as the Ford Administration pleaded with a reluctant Congress to vote $222 million in extra military aid for the Phnom-Penh government. In defense of their request, White House officials and Cabinet members trotted out several arguments. Most compelling was the warning that without an emergency infusion of ammunition, the government of President Lon Nol is in imminent danger of falling to the Communist-led Khmer Rouge insurgents. "An independent Cambodia cannot survive unless the Congress acts very soon to provide supplemental military...