Word: resignment
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...past two weeks, pressure has been continually building on Lon Nol to resign or at least leave the country. The majority of his generals have been increasingly open in urging the President to go. So have been most of the cabinet and nearly all members of the bicameral National Assembly. An ad hoc coalition of top Cabinet and military leaders, in frequent audiences with Lon Nol, have been trying to convince him that his continued presence in the capital could lead to an eventual bloodbath...
...week long, Saigon was buzzing with rumors about President Nguyen Van Thieu. One air force officer, after swearing his family to secrecy, told them that the President was under house arrest. Some said that the President was preparing to flee the country. Others heard that he was ready to resign...
...sense, Samphan's popularity was his undoing. Sihanouk forced him to resign in 1963, charging him with incompetence. Three years later, though, Samphan was elected to the National Assembly. One April evening in 1967, during a peasant uprising in Battambang province that had set off an antileftist witch hunt in the capital. Khieu Samphan simply vanished. According to his family, he told his mother that he was going out for a breath of fresh air before dinner and never came back...
...hope that the present regime can pull through have been exasperated by the indolence and unrealistic attitudes of President Lon Nol, who sometimes acts as if the war were taking place in another country. Last week, for example, rumors circulated in Phnom-Penh for several days that he might resign, which could possibly pave the way toward some kind of negotiations with the Khmer Rouge insurgents. Instead, Lon Nol staged a modest Cabinet reshuffling and fired his arrogant commander in chief, Lieut. General Sosthene Fernandez, who is hated both for his corruption (his army payroll is inflated with fake names...
...ammunition, the generals will look out the corners of their eyes at the dwindling supplies, knowing that no more is coming. Then things will just have a way of happening. It was bad enough when they got the story out here of Senator Scott calling for Lon Nol to resign. Put yourself in my shoes when that story hit Phnom-Penh...