Word: phnom-penh
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...give Cambodia an additional $40 million worth of military equipment, on top of an $8.9 million earlier commitment. The antiwar faction in the Senate was angry but powerless to act, because the Administration can use funds already appropriated. In Cambodia itself, Communist forces ranged within a few miles of Phnom-Penh, but U.S. analysts believe that the enemy was not preparing to attack the Cambodian capital. South Vietnamese units, meanwhile, continued their operations aimed at securing strategic points...
...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...
...control of Cambodia's four northeastern provinces and the Bolovens Plateau in the southern Laotian panhandle. In the process, the Communists have gained access to large supplies of rice, fish and cattle, and last week's attacks on Kompong Thom and Skoun, two strategic cities north of Phnom-Penh, showed that they are intent on securing continued control of these new havens. They also now command a riverine supply route on the Mekong that stretches all the way through Laos and Cambodia to the South Vietnamese border...
Semantic Exercise. In any case, the most serious threat is still in Cambodia. Partly because the Lon Nol government has not even attempted to establish a presence much beyond Phnom-Penh, Communist recruitment efforts in the countryside are thought to be going very well. Substantial aid from Thailand has yet to materialize, and Cambodian officials warn that their government could fall within six months without more U.S. support...