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...weeks other Cambodian leaders had been telling Lon Nol that only his departure could open the way to eventual accommodation with the surging Khmer Rouge, who control virtually all of Cambodia's countryside and have brought the few remaining government-held cities under rocket bombardment. Even as he tearfully made his exit, Lon Nol insisted that his absence would be only temporary; he had elicited a face-saving invitation to the exotic isle of Bali from his friend Indonesian President Suharto. In reality, however, Lon Nol, 61, was finished. After a two-week rest in Indonesia, he planned...
...towns of Banam and Neak Luong. The victory freed some 4,000 Khmer Rouge troops who were reported to be making their way up the Mekong in sampans for the looming assault on the capital. To the east, the attackers overran several government positions to come within mortar and rocket range of the main navy base at the Chrouy Changvar promontory on the Mekong River. To the southeast, the Khmer Rouge pushed within eight miles of the city limits...
Winger Mars Child scored one of her five goals on a brilliant solo effort. Child intercepted an attempted Worcester clearing pass, cut past the pointwomen and rifled a rocket of a shot behind a starry-eyed crease keeper...
...river and the Communists. On the other side of the Song Ba, meanwhile, the caravan began to pile up on itself. A jumble of people, motor scooters, trucks, buses and cars congealed until 5,000 vehicles turned the riverbank into a gigantic parking lot. Then Communist mortar and rocket fire slammed into the riverside, setting vehicles alight in a fire that 24 hours later was still raging. In the end, the 50,000 who had crossed the river pushed on to the sea in reckless disregard of the danger from the Communists. But continued sniping on the road...
They also were slowed in their drive against other parts of the "rocket belt." Two infantry battalions temporarily refused to participate in the attack last week, complaining that they lacked food and that their officers were using poor tactics. They would have faced a formidable barrier around the rebel rocket sites: antitank mines and rockets, antipersonnel mines and machine-gun nests. So far, the best the government has been able to do is sneak observers forward near the rocket belt; when they hear the whoosh of a missile leaving its tube, the observers push a button that triggers warning sirens...