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...News charged yesterday that it had seen American ground troops, with Army rifles and U.S. combat boots but otherwise wearing civilian clothing, standing on the ground at Phnom Penh airport in Cambodia on Tuesday...
Ladies of the Day. The Communists do not seem to be interested in taking Phnom-Penh; there are no enemy troops at the gates. Rather, they seem intent on using as few troops as possible to pin down as much of Cambodia's FANK (for Forces Armées Nationales Khmères) as possible. Only one-fourth of the 40,000 Communist troops in Cambodia are toying with the capital's supply routes; the rest are trying to carve out staging areas in northeast Cambodia and reconstruct supply routes into South Viet...
...Thus Phnom-Penh is not exactly on the ropes. Gasoline prices have risen, rice is up 50%, domestic sugar has disappeared from store shelves, and the supply of Cambodian beer has dried up, because the only brewery is situated in Kompong Som. Still, champignons a la Grecque, cóte de boeuf and a respectable Beaujolais can still be had in the city's good French restaurants. Because of a curfew-and power shutdowns to save generator fuel-Phnom-Penh's bars now close by 8 or 9 p.m. As a result, the capital's numerous ladies...
...showpiece" of U.S. know-how, the shoddily built $34 million highway began breaking up almost as soon as it was finished in 1959. Prince Norodom Sihanouk was so appalled at the craters in the road when he tried to drive down it one day that he turned back to Phnom-Penh and took a helicopter instead. Washington promptly chipped in another $15 million to set things straight...
American military assistance flights were landing at Phnom Penh airport again yesterday, although most commercial aircraft were still kept away from the city...