Word: phnom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...restrictions, and may well drive deeper and stay longer. In fact, a South Vietnamese naval force was on its way toward the very heart of Cambodia at week's end. Accompanied by 30 U.S. craft, a flotilla of 70 South Vietnamese gunboats headed up the Mekong, bound for Phnom-Penh. Ostensibly, its mission is to evacuate South Vietnamese from the Cambodian capital. Along the way, however, the heavily armed boats did not hesitate to engage Communist troops occupying the key Cambodian river town of Neak Luong (see following story...
Meanwhile the Cambodian government yesterday launched a campaign to rid the country of its more than 500,000 Vietnamese citizens. A flotilla of 140 ships was dispatched from South Viet Nam to begin picking up the refugees at Phnom Penh...
...forces behind the coup-which toppled the neutralist regime at Prince Norodom Sihanouk-had lately come under sharp attack from opposition troops within Cambodia, and the insurgents had driven to within 50 miles of the capital city. Phnom Penh, by the time the Americans and South Vietnamese attacked across the border. Until, that time, the besieged junta had been pleading for support from neighboring nations, and was confining to do so, particularity in the United Nations, even after the Allied operation...
...Khmers"-were sponsored by the C.I.A when they operated against Sihanouk from bases in Vietnam and Thailand before they joined Lon Nol in Cambodia last year. And it was the young Khmers who, in the absence of Sihanouk, instigated the attack on the North Vietnamese and Vietcong embassies in Phnom Penh on March 11 and propelled the military forces to victory one week later...
...least the facade of neutrality. Moreover, it hopes to win diplomatic support?and arms aid?later this month at a conference of Asian nations called to discuss Cambodia by Indonesia. To avoid weakening the shaky regime, the U.S. decided to forgo the legality of wangling an invitation from Phnom-Penh to attack the Communist bases in Cambodia. The omission meant that Washington was openly violating the Geneva accord of 1954 (which it did not sign but has repeatedly claimed to respect), guaranteeing Cambodian neutrality. Still, there is no doubt that the U.S. obtained tacit consent. Cambodia's Foreign Minister...