Word: phnom-penh
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...long ago, after several journalists covering the war in Cambodia had been captured by hostile forces, TIME Correspondent Robert Anson speculated that, come what may, newsmen would still be venturing out into the hazardous Cambodian countryside. In isolated Phnom-Penh, he explained in a cable to New York, reliable information is so hard to come by that even diplomats "would start an interview by asking the correspondent: 'Now what can you tell...
...temples at nearby Angkor. Anson's and TIME Stringer T.D. Allman's account of the massacre of more than 150 Vietnamese-born civilians in a schoolyard at Takeo last spring exposed the dark side of the government's campaign against the Vietnamese-and helped persuade the Phnom-Penh regime to take steps to prevent future atrocities...
Early last week, Anson cabled that "there are two wars in Cambodia: the visible one of the battlefield, the other the unseen struggle in the countryside." He then drove out of Phnom-Penh heading for the battlefield at Skoun, 45 miles away. The other war stopped Anson short. His white Ford Cortina was found outside of Skoun, its tires flattened by gunfire. Villagers reported that his car had been stopped at an enemy roadblock, and that Anson had been led away, apparently unhurt...
...other side of the Nixon Doctrine, which offers U.S. assistance to Asian nations in the form of supplies rather than troops, has proved a greater success. That ubiquitous talisman of an American presence, the C-ration kit, is readily available at any cigarette stand in midtown Phnom-Penh. At Pochentong Airport, five or six planes land each day carrying up to five tons of American materiel. Still the U.S. presence in Cambodia is, for the most part, limited and discreet. "We don't need another client state," says one U.S. diplomat in Phnom-Penh. "Whether we can pull this...
...fiscal year that began July 1, program officials are assuming that "we have a credit rating with Congress" and hope to bring in some $30 million worth of military supplies during the next six months. Last week Charles Mann, head of the economic-aid program in Laos, arrived in Phnom-Penh to begin studies that will lead to a renewed economic mission in Cambodia. Already the staff attached to the U.S. mission has grown from 11 to more than 50. Later this month, the U.S. will officially raise its diplomatic status in Phnom-Penh from mission to embassy level...