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...Phnom-Penh was about to fall. The fateful and almost certainly final siege of Saigon was about to begin. The most frustrating and tragic chapter in the history of U.S. foreign policy was, one way or another, ending. And a new American President, unelected at home and untested abroad, was about to shake off the shackles of past U.S. failures in Southeast Asia and place his own unique stamp on America's global diplomacy by fashioning new policies on which Americans could unite. Such was the setting and the advance billing for what Gerald Ford had promised would...
...most crucial sector was on the northern front, which protects Pochentong airport. The U.S. was bringing in about 1,500 tons of ammunition and food and medical supplies daily. If that flow was cut or seriously disrupted, and stockpiles were depleted, Phnom-Penh would collapse quickly. It is likely to do so in any case when U.S. aid runs out at the end of April; Congress is not expected to grant President Ford's request for an additional $222 million when it reconvenes this week. The fact that the city's fate is virtually sealed...
...continue the war but to keep the Khmer Rouge from entering Phnom-Penh that we are asking for aid," Saukam Khoy said last week. Some of the defending units had no more than six or ten mortar rounds left to repulse the next attack. Young front-line commanders often kept an ear on the radio, hoping for news that the U.S. Congress would change its mind and grant...
...Phnom-Penh, once one of Indochina's most elegant cities, is seized by anxiety and foreboding. Its population of 500,000 has been swollen to 2 million by refugees. Despite the ever present danger from random Khmer Rouge rocketing, children still sing in the streets in the early evening and decorations are going up for the Cambodian New Year, April 13. But after the 9 p.m. curfew, the only sound is the chatter of small-arms fire punctuated by the thump of rockets and howitzer shells. By day, the city is ever more pathetic and dangerous. There are serious...
...Communist forces rolled toward Saigon and tightened their noose around Phnom-Penh, foreign journalists in those two capitals were caught up in an increasingly complex and tragic story that became more and more difficult to report...