Word: phnom-penh
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Mekong in northern Cambodia, Communist troops have captured Kratie and Chhlong; last week they attacked Stung Treng, a key town at the confluence of the Se Kong and the Mekong, and sent a full regiment against Kompong Cham, Cambodia's third largest city, only 50 miles northeast of Phnom-Penh...
...restrictions, and may well drive deeper and stay longer. In fact, a South Vietnamese naval force was on its way toward the very heart of Cambodia at week's end. Accompanied by 30 U.S. craft, a flotilla of 70 South Vietnamese gunboats headed up the Mekong, bound for Phnom-Penh. Ostensibly, its mission is to evacuate South Vietnamese from the Cambodian capital. Along the way, however, the heavily armed boats did not hesitate to engage Communist troops occupying the key Cambodian river town of Neak Luong (see following story...
...peasants are befuddled," a French businessman said in Phnom-Penh last week. "Prince Sihanouk had been increasingly and-Viet Cong. Now he joins with the Viet Cong to kill Cambodians. I strongly doubt that the peasants will support him, even if he were to return to a 'liberated zone' in the country." That appraisal is shared by many observers, Western and Cambodian. If it is accurate, it may mean a considerably longer life for the regime of Premier Lon Nol than seemed possible a short while...
...east of the Mekong River. Last week they launched a major thrust west of the Mekong as well, when a force of up to 600 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese seized the ferry crossing at Neak Luong, then drove up densely forested Route 1 to within 30 miles of Phnom-Penh...
...Phnom-Penh, soldiers were installing Soviet-made 122-mm. artillery pieces to ward off any thrust from the south. Other troops, including elements of a 3,000-man contingent of Cambodian mercenaries who had fought with American Green Berets in Viet Nam, mounted a counterattack on Neak Luong. The tough, red-scarfed mercenaries, who were airlifted into Phnom-Penh last week to back up Lon Nol's weak 35,000-man army, expect to link up with South Vietnamese forces that were closing in on Neak Luong at week...