Word: phnom-penh
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...hope of warding off attacks by Viet Cong or North Vietnamese troops. Two weeks ago, the sound of Communist gunfire prompted Cambodian troops to slaughter 90 prisoners in a camp at Prasaut. Late last week, near an area of heavy fighting in Takeo province, about 50 miles south of Phnom-Penh, Cambodian soldiers opened fire on more than 200 Vietnamese held prisoner at another camp (see box, page...
...Viet Nam, Communist forces last week closed in on two key border cities. In the "parrot's beak" area jutting into South Viet Nam, they surrounded Svay Rieng Ville on three sides. Moreover, they moved to within striking distance of the Mekong River ferry linking Svay Rieng with Phnom-Penh, leading some observers to speculate that they hoped to lure a large defense force across the river and trap it there. To the south, a combined force of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops advanced on the provincial capital of Takeo. During one of its fiercest battles against seasoned...
...exodus of Communist diplomats began suddenly. Early in the week nearly a dozen women and children from the Soviet embassy hurriedly left Cambodia. Some North Korean aid technicians soon followed. Later, a special transport plane flew into Phnom-Penh's Pochentong Airport from China, and when it left, it was filled with Chinese technicians and members of Peking's big diplomatic community. At week's end, North Viet Nam and the Viet Cong announced that they were closing their Cambodian embassies. "These are the first storm warnings," a Western diplomat said. "When they begin to leave...
...keeping foreign journalists out of his "neutralist" country. Many sneaked in, mainly for respite from the Viet Nam War. Unable to carry out any real reporting in Cambodia, they dined on frogs' legs, eggs en cocotte and cheese soufflés beside a bikini-lined pool in Phnom-Penh, the capital city...
...known others: German-born NBC Photographer Dieter Bellendorf; French Photographers Gilles Caron, Guy Hannoteaux, Claude Arpin; Michel Visot, a Phnom-Penh professor of law acting as a guide; and two Japanese television newsmen, Reporter Akira Kusaka and Cameraman Yujiro Tagaki...