Word: phnom-penh
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...Phnom-Penh, the Cambodian capital, lay encircled by Communist forces. All five highways leading to the city were under siege, and three outposts along the road to the provincial capital of Takeo had been lost. More important, the Communists had severed, for the moment at least, the vital Mekong River supply route from South Viet Nam. A convoy of about a dozen ships, already ten days overdue in the Cambodian capital, was delayed in the Vietnamese port of Vung Tau while the Cambodian armed forces and U.S. bombers tried to clear the riverbanks of enemy rocket launchers...
...Phnom-Penh, residents were urged to cut down on their use of petroleum; the city was said to have only a three-day supply of gasoline on hand for private transport. To make matters worse, a fire destroyed one of Phnom-Penh's two electricity generators, blacking out half of the city and stilling the whirling fans and air conditioners in the midst of scorching 95° heat. If the harassing Communist blockade could not be broken, U.S. officials said, food, fuel and ammunition would have to be brought in by a U.S. airlift...
...officials, mindful of the chaotic series of regimes that followed the 1963 coup in Saigon, insist that they are not interested in promoting any sudden changes of government in Phnom-Penh. Even so, the President's brother took certain precautions last week. He placed an extra cordon of troops around Sirik Matak's Phnom-Penh villa-ostensibly for his old rival's protection...
...third anniversary of the 1970 coup that exiled Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Phnom-Penh was rocked by new explosions and a new crisis. A Cambodian Air Force trainer stolen by a young officer swooped low over the Presidential Palace and dropped two 500-lb. bombs. The bombs missed the palace and slammed into a cluster of huts that housed presidential guards and their families. At least 38 people died, and about 50 were wounded...
More recently Sullivan has been dividing his time between the White House and the State Department, poring over background material and briefing Kissinger for the newest talks in Hanoi. From Hanoi, Sullivan will fly to Saigon, Vientiane, Phnom-Penh and Bangkok to brief allied officials on the import of the negotiations. Then back to Washington and off again to Paris, where Sullivan will act as deputy to Secretary of State William Rogers for the U.S. delegation at the international guarantee conference on Viet Nam, beginning...