Word: phnom-penh
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...airpower. As he spoke, heavy U.S. air raids in the area continued, ostensibly aimed at North Vietnamese supply and infiltration routes. Earlier, U.S. bombers and helicopters provided massive support for Saigon's troops in Cambodia. A group of G.I.s working in civilian clothes turned up last week at Phnom-Penh airport. Their mission was innocuous and brief-the removal of damaged American helicopters. Increasingly, such incidents aroused an anxiety that, despite the anticipated end of American combat engagement in Viet Nam. the U.S. risked stumbling into the farther jungles of Cambodia and Laos...
...pressure. In skirmish after skirmish, the Cambodian regime's 160,000-man army has proved unable to hold its own against Communist forces without American support in the air and help from the South Vietnamese on the ground. After the spectacular raids on Pochentong airport and targets in Phnom-Penh, Premier Lon Nol was described by his aides as "depressed." He could not have been particularly heartened either by exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk's remark that in a year or two Cambodia will "fall by itself like a ripe fruit...
...prove Sihanouk wrong. Soon after the Pochentong disaster, the Pentagon sent two new UH-1 ("Huey") helicopters to Phnom-Penh-a start at rebuilding the broken Cambodian air force. Within the limits imposed by Congress, the Administration is sending in military specialists. An American demolition team has arrived in Phnom-Penh, much to the relief of Cambodian demolition men, who have been sighted in the capital, standing over unexploded terrorist grenades and bombs while puzzling through old French demolition manuals...
...embassy staff in Phnom-Penh has swelled from seven in 1969 to 84, including 48 military men. Scheduled to arrive shortly are 16 members of a military-equipment deployment team, whose job will be to see that arriving U.S. military hardware goes where it should. Washington is at pains to point out that the MEDT men are not advisers. Nevertheless, they can go into the field with Cambodian troops for "in-use checks" of how the arms are used, even during actual combat...
LIKE most wars, the one in Indochina has bred an almost casual brutality. At Mien, a small town northeast of Phnom-Penh where bitter fighting raged two months ago, West German Photographer Dieter Ludwig was present when two Cambodian patrols returned from forays into chest-high rice fields. The first patrol brought in a North Vietnamese prisoner for interrogation (above); he talked freely after the second patrol arrived waving some grisly trophies-the severed heads of other North Vietnamese troops. Some of the Cambodians marked their victory by cutting the livers out of the enemy dead...