Word: unclearly
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...fate of some key members of the Lon Nol regime remained unclear. Former Premiers Long Boret and Sirik Matak were assumed to have been arrested by the Communists, along with several hundred lower-level officials who first found refuge in the French embassy compound but were later forced to leave. Some of these may already be dead; a radio broadcast from inside Cambodia told of beheadings, but could not be confirmed. Political trials in Phnom-Penh were said to be beginning...
Whether any campaign of retribution would be launched against Roman Catholics was unclear. None of the seven bishops in the captured provinces joined the tidal wave of fleeing refugees and none had been heard from at week's end. To still fears of a religious pogrom, Hanoi ordered its conquering troops to revere temples, pagodas and churches. Buddhist flags were hoisted alongside those of North Viet Nam and the P.R.G...
...Stringer Denis Cameron, 44, who stayed behind in a largely futile attempt to organize an airlift of 400 Cambodian orphans. Rudakewych used the erratic Associated Press telex line to Hong Kong to tell his editors that he had malaria but was safe. Cameron cabled CBS: "The situation here is unclear and contradictory. Fresh rumors keep arriving to fuel the worry and apprehension. We return regularly to the hotel to compare rumors and feel some small consolation in our togetherness...
What can effectively take the place of the shuttle now is unclear. Israeli officials last week suggested a revival of proximity talks similar to those held in Secretary of State William Rogers' day. Egyptian and Israeli ambassadors, or even foreign ministers, might resume negotiations in Washington with State Department officials serving as middlemen. Far likelier is a resumption of the suspended peace talks in Geneva. That is the aim of the Soviets, who have not interfered with Kissinger's step-by-step talks as long as they did not rule out a later Geneva meeting in which Moscow...
...Equally unclear was the precise ideological makeup of the Revolutionary Council. The 200-man Armed Forces Movement (M.F.A.), which has guided government policy since last April's revolution, created the council as a supreme political authority in an all-night session following the coup attempt. Many moderates, who had previously defeated similar attempts to create such a council, were in hiding or frightened away from the emergency meeting. "The council reflects radical thinking in the M.F.A.," said a European diplomat. "More than that we cannot say with assurance." Late last week the council increased its membership to 28 with...