Word: toul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Several days earlier, a helicopter had rocketed the small Cambodian village of Prey Toul near the South Vietnamese border, killing one civilian and injuring 23 others. Prince Norodom Sihanouk's government had complained, and now the International Control Commission -composed of Canadian, Indian and Polish officials-was on the scene to investigate. The fragments they saw were clearly from U.S.-made rockets. The projectile laid out on a table for inspection was a grenade of the kind fired by American helicopters...
...operations in Laos are, if anything, an even greater farce. There has been no commission investigation in that kingdom since 1965. Only in Cambodia, where the war occasionally spills over the border-as it did at Prey Toul-has there been a measure of ICC success. The commission's presence has probably deterred the Communists from more blatant use of their Cambodian sanctuary, while discouraging the U.S. and the South Vietnamese from striking across the frontier in hot pursuit of Communist forces...
Last week a U.S. Air Force RB-66B reconnaissance bomber bellowed off the runway at Toul-Rosieres airbase...