Word: phnom-penh
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...