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After a night in Kratie (there are several basic hotels, all less than $10), it's seven hours to Stung Treng. An American visitor in the 1920s described the town as "a savage little poem," and there is little to see. But you must stop to obtain permission to cross the border, either from the immigration office ($1) or the Sekong Hotel ($20, but hassle-free). The last three hours to the border are by outboard-powered dug-out. The going is slow but the pace affords fine views of the delta at its most pristine. The thick jungle harbors...
...southern Laos, North Vietnamese regulars two weeks ago overran Attopeu, a town on a Mekong River tributary called the Se Kong; last week they menaced Saravane, another strategically located town. Along the Mekong in northern Cambodia, Communist troops have captured Kratie and Chhlong; last week they attacked Stung Treng, a key town at the confluence of the Se Kong and the Mekong, and sent a full regiment against Kompong Cham, Cambodia's third largest city, only 50 miles northeast of Phnom-Penh...
...does an anti-Communist group that calls itself the Khmer Serei, or Free Cambodian Movement. Led by former Cambodian Premier Son Ngoc Thanh, the Khmer Serei claims that it has 10,000 troops sprinkled throughout the steaming Cambodian jungles and the Dangrek Range, with a main force at Stung Treng near southern Laos (see map). On New Year's Eve the group's Radio Free Cambodia declared war on Sihanouk "to free Cambodia from his suicidal policies"; a few hours later Khmer Serei groups raided four Cambodian military forts, capturing some Chinese arms and killing 28 of Sihanouk...
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