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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most civil wars, the war in Cambodia has been particularly brutal for civilians. Businesses in Phnom Penh have shut down for want of customers and for fear of rocket attacks in parts of the city. The city's hospitals are over-crowded with civilians suffering from shelling, disease, and starvation. As of this week, there are not even any ambulances available to transport wounded and dying civilians to the hospitals. Children scour the city's streets and dumps looking for enough food to stay alive; merchants are selling off what remains of their inventories. A fear has taken hold...

Author: By Chris Daly, | Title: Ours To Lose | 3/7/1975 | See Source »

...year ago this month, in one of the worst battles of the war, Communist-led Khmer insurgents pounded the Cambodian capital of Phnom-Penh with artillery and rocket fire for seven straight weeks. Somehow the city survived. Last week, it was once again hunkering down for another brutal assault. The insurgent forces, who now control most of Cambodia outside the major cities, are currently concentrating their attacks on Neak Luong, a small but vital Mekong River shipping channel 32 miles southeast of the capital. But there are daily rocket attacks in and around Phnom-Penh, and it is only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: The War: Immediate, Palpable, Personal | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

...city itself, the daily terror is the constant expectation of a rocket attack. The Chinese-built 107-mm. missiles are wobbly, unguided weapons at best, which the insurgents fire from metal tubes propped up by two sticks or the fork of a small tree. They are a barbarous form of warfare, because when they hit the ground or touch a treetop they turn into thousands of jagged, 2-in. shrapnel fragments. Innocent women and children going about their daily chores seem to be their most common victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: The War: Immediate, Palpable, Personal | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

...taking a new look at such surface-to-surface weapons. Descendants of the Nazi V-l "buzz bombs" of World War II, cruise missiles are similar to unmanned planes. Equipped with turbine engines and stubby wings, they can be launched from ships, aircraft or even submerged submarines; a rocket booster propels the missile until it breaks through the water's surface and its engine takes over. When equipped with a terrain-following electronic guidance system, which is now being developed, it should be able to skim great distances over land or water (as far as 1,500 miles). while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Electronic Arsenal | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

MIRV AND MARV: No greater challenge faces the architects of electronic warfare than to devise a defense against MIRV (for multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicles) nuclear missiles, which scatter warheads toward several different targets after the rocket re-enters the atmosphere. The more deadly MARVs (for maneuvering reentry vehicles) have several separate nuclear payloads that can be maneuvered in different directions and at varying speeds as they plunge toward earth -making them even more difficult to intercept. The U.S. has already MIRVed a good number of its missiles and hopes eventually to MARV others. To help meet the threat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Electronic Arsenal | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

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