Word: phnom-penh
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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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...
...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...
...Phnom-Penh is a city of rumors. One day hundreds-or is it thousands?-of Communists are said to be already in the capital, waiting for the word to rise up. On the next the enemy is just outside the city. One day his plans are said to be an all-out attack. But there is also a report that his main aim is to isolate the city, cut off all its roads and strangle it. What is going...
...diplomats-the Australians and French, Russians and Americans, Israelis and Vietnamese. They meet in restaurants like the Café de Paris and Venice, and over rich red wine and Chateaubriand, served silently by white-coated Cambodian waiters, diplomats and reporters trade information. No one has the whole story. In Phnom-Penh, everyone is a gatherer of bits and pieces of information. "Did you hear?" the reporter asks, and then delivers a nugget of information to the diplomat. The diplomat reciprocates. They go their separate ways to another meeting, another exchange. Out of the morass of data-often contradictory, often mere...
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...