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Despite such skepticism, some attempt to fund more public jobs seems certain. The ambitious proposals amount to a spoonful of sugar to make the bitter medicine of big budget cuts easier to swallow. Congressmen, reasons George Washington University's Sar Levitan, a manpower expert, would be less reluctant to make large and politically sensitive spending cuts in some areas if they could also create jobs for constituents...
...General César Mendoza Durán, 54, is head of the paramilitary carabineros. A top horseman who competed in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, Mendoza has been noticeably milder in his condemnation of leftists than his fellow junta members. Explains a foreign diplomat: "Mendoza knows that when the army gets tired of guarding itself and goes back to its barracks, his people will have to keep order...
Later, at the government command post, Major General Sar Hor, who was in charge of the city's defenses, spelled out the problems. At that point, government troops held less than a third of a square mile; the insurgents controlled 60% of the city and were pressing for more. But Sar Hor, a roly-poly man of 56 who wore several large oval rings on his fingers, was confident. "The situation was once very critical," he said, "but now it is merely critical. We will recapture what has been lost." There was reason for his growing optimism...
Next door to the heavily fortified command bunker is the town hall. A small group of tough Cambodian special-forces troops walked in, exuberantly displaying a .50-cal. machine gun recovered from an enemy position that they had just destroyed. General Sar Hor pulled a wad of riels from his map case and handed the reward to Major Kim Phong, the group's commander. "Special forces, can do!" he shouted. Kim Phong, a tall, strapping Khmer with a stubbly beard, who looks a bit like an Asian Lee Marvin, has been a soldier for 20 years, first...
...insurgents laid siege to a comparable force of government soldiers defending Kompong Cham, Cambodia's third largest city (peacetime pop. 125,000, now about 65,000), approximately 50 miles northeast of Phnom-Penh. Lon Nol vowed that he would not let Kompong Cham fall and dispatched Major General Sar Hor, the highly regarded Minister of Veteran Affairs, to take charge of its defenses. Nonetheless, the insurgents steadily advanced. Using American 105-mm. howitzers captured last month from fleeing government troops, they massively shelled the city, rendering Kompong Cham's airport useless. Government supplies and reinforcements...