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Before week's end the advance units were reported to have taken four additional provincial cities. So grave was the threat to Phnom-Penh even then that Premier Pol Pot, 53, who has ruled Cambodia since the Communists came to power in 1975, was said to be preparing a speedy escape to China with his chief comrades. Desperate, Cambodian Head of State Khieu Samphan appealed by radio to "all friends, far and near, to give aid and support of all kinds and forms...
...Beak salient and other border areas, and was eventually repulsed (see map). This time it was clear that Hanoi was determined to overrun the entire country, and it was eagerly cheered on by Moscow, which is supplying most of the arms and advice. Tass, which had praised the Pol Pot regime as recently as October 1977, last week excoriated it by quoting at length from Western publications critical of Cambodia, and added that Pol Pot was "pursuing a policy of genocide...
...official media of the new Phnom Penh government claimed people throughout Cambodia rejoiced at the downfall of the Pol Pot government--an ouster engineered by the Vietnamese, neighbors for whom Cambodians have a deep-seated historical hatred...
China, the fallen government's only ally, is in radio contact with Pol Pot and will provide his forces with weapons and financial aid but no troops, Sihanouk added...
...eight-member "People's Revolutionary Council" led by Heng Samrim, a defector from the Pol Pot government, has been established, the rebel news bureau reported...