Word: phnom-penh
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Viet Cong-style terrorism? Not in Phnom-Penh, insisted the U.S. military aid director. "It's much harder for them to commit sabotage here because they would have to get Cambodians to do it." Not in Phnom-Penh, agreed a European ambassador. "It would be too costly for them. They would lose what little popularity they might have...
...they killed an average 500 civilians a month. Though Cambodia's war has become Viet Nam's in miniature, most Western officials refused to believe that terrorism would play a part in it. Then last week, with a thunderous roar, nearly 100 lbs. of plastique exploded in Phnom-Penh's U.S. embassy. Thick concrete walls were ripped open; floors and ceilings were ruptured. But the plastique went off at 6:35 a.m., 55 minutes before the first staff members arrived for work, and nobody was hurt...
...latest in a series of bombings that until last week seemed unconnected. In October there were two injuries when a man tossed a hand grenade in the capital's central market place Last month 23 people were killed and 29 wounded when two grenades were tossed in a Phnom-Penh cinema. A grenade on a crowded avenue, and plastique attacks on a bus and a locomotive followed. The attacks, which have killed at least 25 and injured 60, can no longer be regarded as isolated incidents. They represent a new phase in the war, said Premier Lon Nol. "This...
...View from Phnom-Penh...
...Controversy. The delegates haggled over which Cambodia to recognize, the Lon Nol regime in Phnom-Penh or Prince Sihanouk's outfit in Peking; they decided to seat neither. Mme. Nguyen Thi Binh, foreign minister of the Viet Cong's Provisional Revolutionary Government, was welcomed as an observer after a debate that Kaunda dismissed as merely "a bit of controversy." The "nonaligned" posture of the conference was bent even further when Zambian police arrested 16 Western reporters and deported three of them. The men were detained, explained the Zambian government, because "the monopoly press of the West" was seeking...