Word: sihanouk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have raged for the better part of a decade-and continued to rage last week. Now Cambodia, too, is fast becoming a full-fledged participant in the Indochina conflict. "There is no need for us to declare war," said Premier Lon Nol, the general who helped depose Prince Norodom Sihanouk as Chief of State last month. "It is already a fait accompli. This...
...four weeks since Sihanouk's fall, more than 100 Cambodian troops have been killed in action. At Chi Phou alone, more than 30 men were slain. At Svay Rieng Ville, the province capital, the government seemed intent on making a stand, and thousands of reinforcements were reported to be pouring in. But the situation remained fluid and extremely confused. By week's end at least eight foreign newsmen reportedly had fallen into Communist hands (see PRESS...
...captured in the Cambodia-South Vietnam border area. Last week, in addition to the two Americans, at least six other journalists* were presumed to have fallen victim to the Viet Cong in the same vicinity. The captures dramatized how greatly Cambodia has changed since the ouster of Prince Norodom Sihanouk four weeks...
...were everywhere last week. Tanks and armored cars guarded the Defense Ministry and the main post office. Sandbags were piled around entrances to military installations. In the capital's streets, student volunteers performed military drills. In the countryside, tension remained high. In Takeo, site of a large pro-Sihanouk demonstration, the assistant governor told TIME Correspondent David Greenway how the Viet Cong stir up support for the deposed prince, who is now reported to be in Hanoi conferring with North Vietnamese leaders. "At night the Viet Cong come to the villages and play tape recordings of Sihanouk...
...regime, the building of new loyalties was clearly the core of the problem. Underscoring that point, the new leaders released 486 of Sihanouk's political prisoners from the Phnom Penitentiary. Later in the week it became even more apparent that the new government would need all the support it could muster. Reports reached Phnom-Penh that Cambodian troops were battling large Communist forces in Snoul and in Svay Rieng province. In Svay Rieng, 200 to 300 Vietnamese Communists launched a brief night attack against the district headquarters town of Chi Phou, but were held off by Cambodian troops...