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...clothing. The search for bodies was difficult. Rescue workers expect to find bodies as far away as 50 miles downstream from Rapid City. Others may never be discovered. Flying over the scene last week, TIME Correspondent William Friedman saw stranded victims waving scarves, stones placed to spell out SOS, white sheets stretched to form huge Xs on the ground...
...regime, whose eager but not always effective 160,000-man army has been unable to reopen the vital arteries without outside help. Last week, in what has become a familiar pattern since much of the Indochina war shifted to Cambodia last spring, Phnom-Penh put out an SOS, and it was answered by a prodigious amount of South Vietnamese and U.S. firepower...
...ultimately the SOS of terrorized hearts trapped between knowledge of their own mortality and ignorance of the dark and quite possibly hostile universe about them. What they are desperately signaling for is a deal. They are the new compact that man tries to make with reality after the death of his illusion that...
Something happened to the Thais on the way to the rescue. In May, when Cambodia's Premier Lon Nol began broadcasting SOS signals, the Thais intimated that substantial help would soon be on the way. So far Bangkok has supplied Cambodia with only five T-28 fighter-bombers, medical supplies, boots and uniforms. On a remote island base, however, the Thais are now training a mixed group of 10,000 Thai and 2,000 Cambodian recruits, and there is talk that this division-size force could be combat-ready some time this month. Presumably, the troops could be lifted...
...government put out an SOS for massive arms assistance, which South Viet Nam, with U.S. approval, answered in part by shipping in some 5,000 captured, Soviet-designed AK-47 rifles. The chances of equipping and training Cambodia's largely volunteer army in time for it to beat off a coordinated Communist attack, however, were next to nil. Meanwhile the South Vietnamese, in a number of exploratory probes, had proved that the Communists were vulnerable to attack on their sanctuaries from the west...