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...itself, the Communists have been responsible for a wave of terrorist bombings. In the countryside, they seized the offensive after their setback last fall at Taing Kauk (TIME. Oct. 19). A month ago, they cut Route Four, the main road between Phnom-Penh and the deepwater port of Kompong Som, and the Cambodian army has not yet been able to reopen it. The result is a serious fuel shortage in Phnom-Penh. So far there has been no such scarcity of food, although the flow of refugees has increased the capital's population from 500.000 to almost...
Untenable Position. To the southeast and southwest, other raids cut off Phnom-Penh from Kompong Som (formerly Sihanoukville), the country's only deep-water seaport and site of its sole oil refinery. As a result, the capital was down to about two weeks' supply of fuel. Another serious setback was the temporary severing of Route 1, which runs between Phnom-Penh and Saigon and is thus one lifeline to Cambodia's most likely source of quick military help. The only other surface route, the Mekong River, was still open, though ships were subject to scattered attacks from...
...southwest of the capital, Phnom-Penh. The widening Communist attacks spread Premier Lon Nol's forces so thin that his strategists were seriously discussing a kind of grand enclave plan for the country. The Cambodian army would pull back to a corridor stretching from the seaport of Kompong Som (formerly Sihanouk-ville) to Phnom-Penh and northwest to the Thai border, tacitly ceding the rest of Cambodia to the Communists...
...Easy Way. Operating with a full complement of U.S. hardware and a minimum of U.S. advisers and logistical support, ARVN units have employed their new-found mobility to the fullest. Saigon's armored task forces in Cambodia have roamed as far as the port of Kompong Som (formerly Sihanoukville) in the south and Chup, site of Indochina's largest rubber plantation, in the north. Attacking the Chup plantation, whose 64,000 acres had become a haven for elements of the Viet Cong 9th Division, South Vietnamese Skyraiders reduced the latex plant to a smoking ruin. Trouble is, they...
...attacked two key Cambodian towns. In the next four days, they attacked and occupied four more, including the seaport of Kep. The capture of a port city was particularly alarming, since it gave the Communists a shipping terminal to replace Sihanoukville (now known by its old name, Kampong Som), which the Lon Nol government had closed to Communist traffic. "A border base is one thing," says the adviser. "A contiguous area supplied by sea, and interlocking, is quite another...