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...Cambodia, fighting between the South Vietnamese troops and their Cambodian allies broke out twice over the weekend. On Saturday night, according to the Associated Press, South Vietnamese marines attacked a Cambodian outpost at Veal Thom, seven miles outside of Phnom Penh. Later a Viet Cong force attacked the same outpost and a Cambodian spokesman said he did not know whether the three Cambodians killed and seven wounded were victims of the South Vietnamese or the Viet Cong...
...indicator that the regime may outlast pessimists' predictions is the army, which has grown from 35,000 to 140,000 men. It is still a ragtag force, ill equipped with a bewildering array of Communist and American weapons. But, as it demonstrated in its recent relief of Kompong Thom and its stand at Taing Kauk, the army is capable of slugging it out with the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong...
...army's first real test came at Kompong Thom, where about 1,000 men broke a three-month siege in early September. The Communists slipped away and moved down Route Six, a crucially important supply line in the north. Encouraged by their success at Kompong Thom, the Cambodians went after the enemy. After a two-week battle, Cambodian troops entered Taing Kauk, much of which had been reduced with the help of air strikes to rubble. After the initial battle, one of the 36 women volunteers involved in the action reported: "I'm very happy that...
...midsection of Indochina. They have taken control of Cambodia's four northeastern provinces and the Bolovens Plateau in the southern Laotian panhandle. In the process, the Communists have gained access to large supplies of rice, fish and cattle, and last week's attacks on Kompong Thom and Skoun, two strategic cities north of Phnom-Penh, showed that they are intent on securing continued control of these new havens. They also now command a riverine supply route on the Mekong that stretches all the way through Laos and Cambodia to the South Vietnamese border...
...like recessions," says Francis Rooney, president of Melville Shoe Corp., "but we also know how much they help our business." This spring Rooney's company, which sells a low-price line through its Thom McAn and Meldisco divisions, was helped to a 20% increase in sales over the same period in 1969. Rooney's case is not unusual. Adversity has always smiled on a lucky few, and the present economic downturn that is bringing travail to many companies is pure serendipity for others...