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...Cambodia and Laos incursions and the wider use of airpower is not primarily to protect G.I.s on their way out of Viet Nam. It is, they argue, to buy time for President Nguyen Van Thieu's regime in Saigon and, to a lesser extent, for the government in Phnom-Penh. "The President appears to be imposing Thieu and his group on the South Vietnamese people," said Averell Harriman last week. "That's what Vietnamization amounts to." The Communists, for their part, of course, seem equally intent on deposing Thieu before they will make peace...
According to a dispatch from Phnom Penh, Cambodian troops clashed briefly with North Vietnamese forces close to Highway 7 in northeastern Cambodia. Inside South Vietnam itself, only light and scattered action was reported...
...Moorer describing the situation as deteriorating, though not really critical; later in the story, you say that the Communists "are trying to carve out staging areas in the northeast." Yet your accompanying map shows the Communists in almost total control of the country, with only a tiny sliver around Phnom-Penh in government hands and another relatively small area rated as "disputed." Which is correct...
Eight-Day Notice. One thing Washington does not seem to be able to give Cambodia is a sense of urgency. Before the recent sapper attacks, U.S. experts repeatedly pointed out the vulnerability of fuel-storage areas, electric-power utilities and other facilities in Phnom-Penh. Last week the Cambodian government blandly revealed that it had known eight days beforehand that an attack on Pochentong was coming. Nothing was done, because there was just not enough barbed wire on hand...
...Phnom-Penh last week, a North Vietnamese army defector insisted that Communist strength in Cambodia totaled no fewer than 150,000 men-a seasoned core of 35,000 North Vietnamese regulars plus 115,000 Cambodian peasants recruited in the countryside. Little wonder, then, that after he emerged from a grim meeting with Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, Armed Services Committee Chairman John Stennis said: "The margin is so thin." By intensifying the pressure against Communist supply routes in Laos, Richard Nixon seemed to be accepting grave risks in hopes of fattening the margin, not just in Cambodia...