Word: phnom-penh
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...days last week, it looked as if Cambodia might become another South Viet Nam. Communist insurgent forces, armed and led by the North Vietnamese, were besieging the Cambodian capital, Phnom-Penh. U.S. B-52s bombed through the night around Phnom-Penh, hoping to hold off the enemy and prop up the shaky, dictatorial regime of President Lon Nol. General Alexander Haig Jr., U.S. Army Vice Chief of Staff and former deputy to Henry Kissinger, was sent on a fast fact-finding tour of Indochina. While high Washington officials called the situation "abysmal" and "awful," President Nixon went off to ponder...
Teetering. For the President, Cambodia remains more of a diplomatic than a military problem, despite the heavy U.S. bombing. As long as Phnom-Penh holds out with U.S. air support, Nixon can live with the situation and hope for the best. The U.S. told Hanoi again that the Communist drive in Cambodia is in clear breach of the Paris accords, which call for a cease-fire in that beautiful but battered country. If the offensive in Cambodia continues, the U.S. will not give North Viet Nam the postwar reconstruction aid that has been promised. The North Vietnamese are unlikely...
...palace of Cambodian President Lon Nol. Battle reports proved contradictory and inconclusive. The British, Australians and Japanese evacuated their women and children. Beside the pool of the Hotel Le Phnom (the former Royal), reporters talked of the possibility of a guerrilla attack on the airport, the television station or some other suitable target to coincide with the Buddhist New Year's holiday. This was Phnom-Penh under siege. Reported TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott...
...Windows rattled, and the whole capital literally shook last night as bombs fell on Communist emplacements to the southeast along the Mekong River," TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott reported from Phnom-Penh. "Sleepless residents of the Le Phnom Hotel moved to rooms on the north side in search of peace and quiet. One marveled, 'This must be the only hotel in the world where you have to change your room because of B-52 raids...
From the U.S. point of view, the terms of the Paris agreement on Viet Nam make it extremely important that the Phnom-Penh government be saved from collapse. The danger is that if most of Cambodia should fall to the Communists, the North Vietnamese and their allies would be able to transport military reinforcements to Cambodia by sea, thereby substantially reducing their reliance on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. They would be able to 'claim that they were observing the letter of the Viet Nam and Laos cease-fire agreements, even as they built up immense military pressure...