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...representatives of the nation's political parties, that would act as an advisory body. In fact, most foreign observers thought that Lon Nol's moves were little more than a cosmetic change and doubted that the various political factions would go along. As one Western diplomat in Phnom-Penh put it: "Lon Nol left things too late. Last year, perhaps, his old colleagues would have cooperated with him. Now, no one trusts his younger brother Lon Non, no one believes there will be any sharing of power." At week's end, however, there were rumors in Saigon...
Overripe Fruit. The political maneuvering took place in the midst of a crumbling military situation. The Communist forces continued their methodical cutting of the five major highways leading to Phnom-Penh; almost as soon as government troops open one road, another is closed. Diplomats, however, ruled out a Communist attempt to overrun the capital. "They don't want to capture it," one observer said. "They want to create such economic chaos that there will be riots-and then the Lon Nol government will fall like an overripe fruit." In the city itself last week, prices continued to rise...
...dictatorial Lon Nol regime reorganized itself last week, reportedly at the behest of the United States. The reorganization is supposed to pave the way for negotiations with the liberation armies who have surrounded the capital of Phnom Penh and threatened the survival of the Cambodian dictatorship...
...reported by most American newspapers, in recent days B-52s have been used in the areas immediately surrounding Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia itself. The number of refugees generated by the bombing has now reached 700,000 in Phnom Penh alone. Senator Edward M. Kennedy has said that some 3 million people have become refugees in Cambodia since the American-sponsored -invasion three years ago. This in a country of slightly over 6 million persons! The number of civilians killed in the last month is not yet known. According to the April 1, 1973 issue of the Washington Post...
Refugees swarming into the capital from target areas report dozens of villages, both east and southeast of Phnom Pehn, have been destroyed and as much as half their populations killed or maimed in the current bombing raids by B-52s and F-111 tactical fighter-bombers...