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...afternoon last week, the U.S. Air Force provided the citizens of Phnom-Penh with a spectacular display of aeronautical fireworks. As Phantom jets bombed the east bank of the Mekong River scarcely two miles from the center of the Cambodian capital, throngs of strollers lined the west bank to watch the show, clapping and cheering when the planes made their dives...
Despite the sense of unreality that seems to pervade Phnom-Penh, the unresolved war in Cambodia has become the most crucial factor in the quest for peace in Indochina. If Cambodia falls to the Khmer insurgents, the Communists will gain easier access to South Viet Nam and thus be able to increase their pressure on the Saigon government...
Peace in Indochina last week continued to look rather ominously like war anywhere else. Fighting continued sporadically in South Viet Nam. Meanwhile, Communist forces in Cambodia continued to tighten the noose around the capital of Phnom-Penh, raising again the question of how long the bumbling government of ailing President Lon Nol could effectively survive. Amidst these signs that the cease-fire agreement has all but collapsed, the White House announced that Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger would return to Paris in mid-May for another round of talks with the silver-haired chief North Vietnamese negotiator...
Without question, the primary topic at the new negotiations will be the desperate situation in Cambodia, where Communist and a wide variety of other antigovernment forces are making impressive headway. Last week they seized a part of the east bank of the Mekong River opposite Phnom-Penh's downtown port area. Ferries bustled back and forth bringing swarms of refugees fleeing villages only two miles away on the opposite bank...
...some nights, Phnom-Penh residents were kept awake until dawn by the rumble of high-flying B-52s and the boom of F-111s dropping their bombs only four or five miles distant from the city. Communist gunners fired at least ten rockets at the capital's only airport, killing 19 people and wounding 62, but the airport remained open...