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During the Route 4 attack, American helicopter gave direct combat support to the South Vietnamese and Cambodians. The helicopters-each of them carrying cannons and grenade launchers-flew from American carriers in the Gulf of Siam and a land base on the Cambodia-Vietnam border...
...patient angel who tamed an irascible king while teaching many of his 82 children? Anna Leonowens, the fabled Welsh widow whose problems with Siam's King Mongkut in the 1860s were written into a bestseller of the 1940s, Anna and the King of Siam, was no such heroine. Never mind the book or the stage and screen versions, says Ian Grimble, a Scottish historian. He startled BBC listeners by describing Anna as a bigot, "one of those awful little English governesses, a sex-starved widow." Grimble says he bases his ungallant appraisal on a study of Anna...
...some 5,500 G.I.s were withdrawn from operations in Cambodia, 2,000 ARVN (for Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) troops launched Operation Pacify West Two, the tenth thrust to date against Communist base areas. Elsewhere, the new war reached far beyond the sanctuaries. In the Gulf of Siam, U.S. and South Vietnamese patrol craft extended their coastal quarantine to a 70-mile stretch of the Cambodian coastline. At Neak Luong, South Vietnamese Marines and heliborne troops recaptured the vital Mekong River ferry crossing in a battle that left 139 Communists dead. Farther up the Mekong, North Vietnamese...
...surface, it appeared that Nixon's goal in ordering troops across the border was to destroy the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong s??les that ?? just inside Cambodia, from the Gulf of Siam to as far north is the Laotian border. But the aimlessness that characterized the first several days of the American operation suggests strongly that the U.S. command had more clandestine goals in Cambodia than Nixon was willing to acknowledge. It seems likely, in fact, that a primary goal of the invasion was to provide support for the right-wing military junta that seized power in Cambodia...
...provincial capital, closing two key highways linking Phnom-Penh with southern ports. Roughly 100 miles northeast of Phnom-Penh, Communist troops blew up a bridge and occupied a town in Kratie province. Another force, attacking by boat, raided the upper-crust Cambodian resort of Kep on the Gulf of Siam, where they set fire to municipal buildings and killed several civilians before escaping...