Word: phnom-penh
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...infiltration into the South; North Viet Nam pointed out that U.S. planes were continuing to bomb in Cambodia and claimed that bombing was taking place in South Viet Nam as well. Bombs were indeed falling in Cambodia, particularly around the Mekong River, which is a vital lifeline to Phnom-Penh. The Viet Cong, meanwhile, charged that some of their positions in South Viet Nam had been bombed by U.S. aircraft and demanded that the International Commission of Control and Supervision investigate...
...band of perhaps 3,000 guerrillas who were affiliated with the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong. Since then, the rebels have grown into a seasoned revolutionary army of at least 45,000 troops, with a solid support cadre of more than 70,000 civilians. Last week, after visiting Phnom-Penh, TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand sent this report on the insurgents...
DROP into Phnom-Penh and begin talking about the antigovernment forces now attacking round the capital, and it soon becomes apparent that the "faceless enemy" out there is not faceless at all. Indeed the problem is just the opposite: the Khmer insurgents (or the K.I., as intelligence officers call them these days) have so many faces that it is nearly impossible to keep them straight...
...continue, we are ready to go on independently until 1980. We have enough courage to do that." Sihanouk insists that the insurgents will negotiate only if the U.S. stops its bombing of Cambodia, withdraws support from the Lon Nol regime, and unilaterally withdraws all American military personnel from Phnom-Penh...
...American origin, and we will have five children. Carefully I turned the conversation to war and politics. Well, he said, the war will lose its intensity in May and June, and the Cambodians will win. At that point, the ground trembled; B-52s were pounding the area around Phnom-Penh...