Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...April unless the U.S. Congress, when it reconvenes April 7, surprises everybody and approves a $222 million supplemental Cambodian aid appropriation. Last week the strategically important town of Tuol Leap, only six miles to the northwest of Phnom-Penh's Pochentong Airport, fell into rebel hands for the third time since the start of the offensive. That put the airfield within range of the highly accurate U.S.-made 105-mm. howitzers that the rebels have captured. Constant shelling of the runway in mid-March forced the U.S. to suspend cargo flights for two days. With the insurgents once again...
Like a battering ram pounding an already crumbling citadel, the Khmer Rouge insurgents last week aimed new blows against the tottering Khmer Republic. On all of Cambodia's battlefields, government troops were falling back or launching unsuccessful counterattacks. Since the rebel offensive began in January, 5,000 of President Lon Nol's troops have been killed and 15,000 wounded. Rebel casualties are estimated to be higher, and civilian losses are considerable...
...safety of the population-a story emphatically denied by Saigon. In any case, there were some reports of Communist efforts to harass the flow of refugees. One 1,200-truck convoy of defeated troops and fleeing civilians crawling southeast from Pleiku toward the coast was attacked by rebel Montagnard groups. Total casualties...
...four oldest brothers have gone through Harvard Medical School, and her older sister, whom Guyton describes as "sort of a rebel," is doing graduate work in chemistry. Guyton herself will enter Duke Medical School next fall...
Some government troops fought extremely well. Even foreign observers could see the difference in the 7th Division last week when it gained a new commander, Brigadier General Khy Hak. But the insurgents also fought well. TIME'S Stephen Heder reported the case of a rebel soldier, caught by machine gun fire that injured both his arms and legs, who lay wounded in a bunker for two days. On the third morning, Heder and three government soldiers found him. "Only when we came very close did we see his glaring face," said Heder. "His wounds had festered horribly, filling with...