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From previous sessions with U.S. intelligence officers, Clark provided a description of the enemy's COSVN (Central Office for South Viet Nam) headquarters. Meanwhile, from Phnom-Penh, Veteran Far East Correspondent Louis Kraar cabled an analysis of the political repercussions in the Cambodian capital. South Viet Nam Correspondent Jim Willwerth described the military situation from his side of the line. In Saigon, Bob Anson pieced together a narrative of the events that led to the historic commitment. Burt Pines was already trailing Vietnamese armored units in his TIME & LIFE Jeep. As troops rolled into Prasaut, 20 miles across...
...Communists seemed to be able to move with impunity. The attack that really lent urgency to Lon Nol's requests for outside military aid (see THE NATION) was a show of Communist power and Cambodian impotence at Saang, a handsome French provincial town only 15 miles south of Phnom-Penh on the west bank of the Bassac River. For five days, a Viet Cong and North Vietnamese force of undetermined size-perhaps only 100 men-held the town against a force of 4,000 Cambodian troops, who arrived in a fleet of commandeered buses and trucks. Only after...
...against Vietnamese nationals has not abated. At one point, the Cambodians marched a column of 100 Vietnamese Catholics into Saang in order to expose Communist positions; several were cut down in the expected hail of enemy fire. As similar atrocities continued last week, the Saigon government dispatched officials to Phnom-Penh to negotiate possible repatriation of the 500,000 Vietnamese living in Cambodia...
Unreality. Saang is only a fast 20-minute drive from Phnom-Penh, but a curious air of unreality prevailed in the Cambodian capital. Even as Lon Nol was desperately dickering for arms, his brother Lon Non, a member of the government, was telling newsmen, "We are not worried. The Vietnamese attacks amuse us. We can hold out for years...
...remains the professional outsider, detached and uninvolved. To reverse Tennyson, his is to reason why, not do or die. But sometimes the distinction between observer and actor breaks down. The last few weeks in Cambodia, notes TIME Correspondent Robert Anson, has been such a time. His report, filed from Phnom-Penh, headquarters for more than 100 foreign correspondents...