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...Cambodia, fighting between the South Vietnamese troops and their Cambodian allies broke out twice over the weekend. On Saturday night, according to the Associated Press, South Vietnamese marines attacked a Cambodian outpost at Veal Thom, seven miles outside of Phnom Penh. Later a Viet Cong force attacked the same outpost and a Cambodian spokesman said he did not know whether the three Cambodians killed and seven wounded were victims of the South Vietnamese or the Viet Cong...
Earlier Saturday, South Vietnamese sailors and Cambodian soldiers shot it out in the streets of Phnom Penh, killing a Cambodian pedicab driver and wounding 14 Cambodians...
...began as a time of triumph for Cambodia's beleaguered regime. South of Phnom-Penh, Cambodian officers cheered "C'est fini!" and lit victory cigars as troops at last broke a two-month Communist hammer lock on vital Route 4. Hours later Air Cambodge's Caravelle jetliner flagship touched down at Phnom-Penh's Pochentong Airport, a sunny complex eight miles outside the capital. As he stepped out of the Caravelle, moon-faced Premier Lon Nol seemed pleased with his two-day trip to Saigon, during which he and his South Vietnamese allies had made...
...grudgingly rated as brilliant, Communist sappers moved mortars and rockets undetected up to the city gates. Then in four murderous hours, they destroyed the airport, the Cambodian air force (about 40 craft) and tons of precious fuel and ammunition while hitting half a dozen other targets in and around Phnom-Penh. The speed, stealth and success of the raids ominously echoed the assaults that in an earlier and darker stage of the war repeatedly ripped places like Pleiku, Bien Hoa and Saigon-and did much to erode the confidence of the U.S. public...
...said that the group of American personnel "carrying combat boots, but otherwise dressed in civilian clothes" had been brought to Phnom Penh in the giant CH47s which were airlifting two small UH1 Huey helicopters which had been damaged in fighting in Cambodia...