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...time of the allied assault, the Communists were involved in a conflict with the six-week-old Phnom-Penh government of Premier Lon Nol, which had overthrown Prince Norodom Sihanouk on March 18 and had ordered all North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops to give up their Cambodian sanctuaries and leave the country. Moving westward so as to put pressure on Lon Nol not to interfere with their refuges and their supply lines, the Communists started seizing territory on the way to the Mekong River. In effect, they turned their backs on South Viet Nam; as Secretary of Defense Melvin...
...regaining use of the sanctuaries, are still far from clear. The U.S. raids obviously weakened the 40,000 Communist troops in Cambodia, but not enough to keep them from placing the Lon Nol government "in a very difficult position," as the U.S. chargé d'affaires in Phnom-Penh, Lloyd M. Rives, puts it mildly. The Communist rampages through Cambodia's towns that began before the U.S. moved against the sanctuaries constituted open aggression against a neutral state. Unfortunately for Cambodia, the U.S. invasion tended to obscure that fact in the eyes of other neutrals. Even without...
...what extent is the U.S. now committed to help yet another Southeast Asian country as a result of the Cambodia raids? President Nixon has flatly ruled out the further use of U.S. ground troops in Cambodia, but Washington is rushing $7,900,000 worth of military supplies to Phnom-Penh, is bargaining with Thailand to supply men at U.S. expense, and would like to encourage an all-Asia defense effort. One knowledgeable observer says that Washington plans to use "everything up to the introduction of ground combat troops." Last week, after U.S. bombers were reported flying in support of Cambodian...
BARBED wire is going up in lovely Phnom-Penh. Like tentacles from the war ravaging the countryside, the prickly wire now surrounds most important government buildings. Sandbag bunkers, usually occupied by young boys or girls proudly fingering loaded U.S. carbines, dot the streets. Cambodian officers strut about with pistols hoistered on their hips...
...North Vietnamese weapons and other supplies that allied troops have uncovered in the sanctuary areas. Moreover, while U.S. troops will be coming out of Cambodia, the South Vietnamese are firmly determined to keep the sanctuaries free of Communist troops and supplies no matter who is in power in Phnom-Penh. As long as they succeed, U.S. military advisers seem unworried over Cambodia's eventual fate...