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...pieces and sent shell after shell screaming through the city on flat trajectories. Hundreds of civilians were killed or wounded every day, and many bodies were left to decompose in the streets. The attacks destroyed a naval ammunition dump, a fuel depot and a floating naval base. Helicopters to Phnom-Penh were the only means of escape; they were reserved for wounded soldiers and wealthy Cambodians who could afford the price of a ticket...
...Khmer Rouge kept up their determined attacks, Israel, Poland and Singapore joined Australia and Britain in closing their embassies in Phnom-Penh. The French downgraded their embassy to a consulate and began to evacuate their staff and any French citizens who wanted to leave. Last Monday morning, reported TIME Correspondent Roy Rowan, a large group of French and Métis (French Cambodians) gathered in front of the old embassy and stared at the bright travel posters picturing the Eiffel Tower, Mont Blanc and the stained glass windows of the Chartres Cathedral. Many of the evacuees had never been...
...Western diplomat in Phnom-Penh recently described the Khmer Rouge as "the most mysterious of the world's successful revolutionary movements." Few if any Westerners know which of the principal elements in the insurgent force-Cambodian nationalist, Cambodian Marxist or doctrinaire Communist-will emerge triumphant. Moreover, their leaders are enigmatic figures whose views and personalities, for the most part, are far less understood than those of their political counterparts in Hanoi, Moscow or Peking...
American prestige, caused by the troubles facing the present Saigon and Phnom-Penh governments. The Secretary told newsmen traveling with him aboard the shuttle that both Arabs and Israelis had brought up the unavoidable question of the long-range credibility of U.S. commitments. Indeed, one Israeli diplomat last week confirmed the fact that "the cloud of Viet Nam increases our intransigence." The Syrian Baath party newspaper Al Baath, with Israel obviously in mind, crowed that "the U.S. is not a reliable friend." But most diplomatic experts doubted that the problems of Indochina had any real impact on Kissinger...
...since the 1972-73 U.S. troop evacuation. In many cases there was only a lone correspondent in the capital. Moving fast to help cover the refugees and troops streaming south, the American press jetted in reinforcements from everywhere. The Chicago Tribune switched its Far Eastern correspondent, Ronald Yates, from Phnom-Penh to Saigon within 24 hours of the news of the retreat; the New York Times moved in Pulitzer Prizewinner Malcolm Browne from Belgrade, Bernard Weinraub from India and Fox Butterfield from Tokyo; TIME dispatched William McWhirter from London and Tokyo Bureau Chief William Stewart; ABC pitched in with twelve...