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...Minh Trail's Laotian branch is being steadily pounded from the air. That leaves only Cambodia as a relatively bomb-free route into South Viet Nam. This kind of end run is hardly new to the Communists, who have often used Prince Norodom Sihanouk's neutral kingdom as a gateway and a sanctuary. But the rising intensity of the war is causing them to use Cambodia more and more as a launching pad and supply depot...
...Sihanouk Trail. According to the detailed picture that emerges from box-loads of intelligence reports in Saigon, the camps are used as training centers, supply storehouses and marshaling points for such large-scale Communist operations as last month's attacks on Loc Ninh, which lies directly across from two major bases, and the fighting at Dak To, which faces another base at the intersection with Laos...
...their food and clothing needs within Cambodia itself. Under a procurement system involving the Chinese embassy in Pnompenh, the Communists buy up to 100,000 tons of Cambodian rice a year. Until the Cambodian army cut itself into the lucrative trade recently in order to raise money for Sihanouk's pet welfare programs, it was handled almost exclusively by Cambodia's colony of Chinese merchants...
...soft goods arrive by ship from North Viet Nam and China at Sihanoukville, Cambodia's outlet on the Gulf of Thailand. They are then trucked over the U.S.-built Friendship Highway to Pnompenh and sent to the border bases along routes that the American military has named the Sihanouk Trail. Occasionally, V.C. guerrillas buy surplus Chinese small arms from local Cambodian commanders, but this is strictly local enterprise by Sihanouk's low-paid officers...
...General William Westmoreland expressed concern and anger at this enemy build-up just beyond the reach of his troops. There has even been some talk among the military of a Cuba-type "quarantine" of Sihanoukville. But the idea hardly pleases U.S. diplomats. However annoying they find Sihanouk's warm embrace of Hanoi's cause, they recognize that he is engaged in a delicate balancing act to keep his country out of the Communist grip. Even if he fully appreciated the magnitude of the infiltration-as he does not seem to-and were determined to kick the Communists...