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...splinter groups, the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, General Command, are more rabidly Maoist than Habash is; both have seats on Arafat's central committee. They and similar splinters badly disrupt the coordination of the group and sap the effectiveness of the guerrilla movement...
This plan would leave the government of Lon Nol with roughly half the country to defend, including the fish-and rice-producing region around the Tonle Sap and the Angkor area. The regions given over to the Communists would include the northeast, where they already dominate, the eastern border regions and the rugged Cardamom Mountains in the southwest...
...west, the Communists were staging their most disturbing effort. In small bands that have been stealing west past Phnom-Penh since mid-April, an estimated 10,000 enemy troops have gathered in two areas: Tonle Sap, the largest fresh-water lake in Southeast Asia, and the Cardamom Mountains...
...staking out new sanctuaries in the lower half of Cambodia. Attacks on the Mekong towns above Phnom-Penh confirm that most of the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong are spilling into the northeast and northwest quadrants of the country. Their temporary destination may be the quiet shores of Tonle Sap Lake, 70 miles north of Phnom-Penh. There they would be near the Cambodian rice bowl and a rich supply of fish, while waiting for a chance to move closer to the border...
...that any massacre occurred. Another may be due to a reflex of patriotism, also demonstrated in the poll. This reflex says, in effect, that even if a massacre took place, this is no time, while the war still goes on, to bring it up, to sully the reputation or sap the nerve of Americans still risking their lives in the paddies and jungles. There may also be at work an edge of guilt or battle wisdom in U.S. attitudes. There are, after all, millions of adult Americans who have fought from the Argonne to Inchon and carry their own private...