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Although the U.S. military attache in Phnom Penh denied any illegal activity, first hand press reports verified that at least one American officer was working in the field as a combat adviser and, for all intents and purposes, commander for the badly demoralized and disorganized government troops in Kampot, a key coastal outpost about 80 miles south of Phnom Penh...
...allow and tacitly encourage U.S. military personnel to help prop up illegitimate and unpopular regimes in which the American government and economic interests have large investments. Junior Cambodian officers told American reporters last week that Americans frequently advise and plan strategy for Lon Nol troops all around beseiged Phnom Penh. Such involvement will probably increase as the Khmer Rouge assault intensifies and achieves more successes like this week's capture of the former royal capital of Oudong...
...years. It may have come from a perspective that only a military man could adopt wholeheartedly, but Moorer's assessment was bracing nonetheless. Said one aide, "He didn't mean there weren't some people getting shot in Northern Ireland or that the shelling of Phnom-Penh couldn't resume. But in organized military operations, nothing was happening." The peace was brief. Last week government forces overran three insurgent positions south of Phnom-Penh, heavy air and artillery attacks took place near the Plain of Reeds in South Viet Nam, and thousands of soldiers mutinied...
Despite the shattering impact of the Insurgents' rocket and artillery assaults on Phnom-Penh, the fighting around the capital is basically deadlocked. Although Lon Nol has no realistic hope of driving the attackers away from his capital's doors, the Insurgents seem incapable of capturing the city before August, when the monsoon will force the suspension of most military activity...
...hope that the Insurgents will eventually tire of fighting and agree to negotiate a truce. Western diplomats in Phnom-Penh, however, note no evidence that any of the guerrilla military leaders are inclined to talk. Instead, the rebels may simply pull back with the rains and resume their attack on the capital with the next dry season...