Word: phnom-penh
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Despite the lavish expenditure of Administration rhetoric, the U.S. Senate pinked the President by passing the Cooper-Church amendment, which, though watered down, nonetheless served clear warning that Nixon should not feel free to embark on another Cambodia. Moreover, the news from Phnom-Penh was that the Communists were enlarging their hold on portions of the embattled country (see THE WORLD). And despite Nixon's appointment of Veteran Diplomat David K.E. Bruce to head the U.S. delegation to the Paris peace talks with Hanoi, there was little indication that North Viet Nam was willing to begin fruitful negotiations...
...Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman told TIME Correspondent Herman Nickel that his nation might decline to provide any substantial assistance unless its own security were "directly threatened." Some U.S. officials are convinced that Thanat is merely trying to squeeze more aid funds out of Washington; so far Bangkok has "loaned" Phnom-Penh some river-patrol craft, as well as five T-28 propeller-driven bombers, but it has not come across with the troops that were promised. In part, Thanat's comment reflects the anger of U.S. allies in Asia over Senate passage of the Cooper-Church amendment (see NATION...
...half, are likely to drop by nearly 60%. Still, Cambodia's most immediate needs are military. So far help has come almost entirely from the South Vietnamese. More than 25,000 ARVN regulars remained in Cambodia after the U.S. departure, conducting massive sweeps north, northwest and northeast of Phnom-Penh in the hope of driving Communist forces farther away from the capital. To help overcome Cambodia's lack of disciplined fighters, Saigon last week announced that over the next three months it will train 10,000 of its neighbor's troops at three camps in South Viet...
...months by diverting unused funds from other aid programs so as to avoid having to request the money from a hostile Congress. The U.S. is also continuing to fly so-called interdiction bombing missions over Cambodian territory. Beyond these limited measures, Nixon endorsed a program of regional cooperation among Phnom-Penh's neighbors, who, he said, have "a stake in Cambodian neutrality and independence." Cambodia, in short, is destined to become the first test for the Nixon Doctrine, which encourages Asians to solve Asia's problems...
Within Range. Cambodia, meanwhile, continued to stagger under the weight of its own battle with the Communists. Phnom-Penh, once the most carefree capital in Southeast Asia, was filled with grim and eerie rumors (see box). Throughout the countryside, the fighting was somewhat less intense than usual. Scattered clashes were reported at several strategic points within 35 miles of Phnom-Penh. Cambodian soldiers found a 122-mm. Communist rocket in a town retaken from Communist soldiers only 14 miles north of Phnom-Penh, the closest to the capital that such long-range weapons have been discovered. At week...