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Meanwhile, North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces moved closer to the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh yesterday, surrounding the town of Tram Khnar, located on the main highway 25 miles south of the capital. They also attacked a key highway junction and blew up a bridge...
...called "young Khmers"-were sponsored by the C.I.A when they operated against Sihanouk from bases in Vietnam and Thailand before they joined Lon Nol in Cambodia last year. And it was the young Khmers who, in the absence of Sihanouk, instigated the attack on the North Vietnamese and Vietcong embassies in Phnom Penh on March 11 and propelled the military forces to victory one week later...
...seems that the Administration's efforts in Cambodia are directed not so much at wiping out the Vietcong refuges along the border as toward ensuring the maintenance of a regime in Cambodia that is friendly to American influence. That regime, of course, would have as a primary goal the elimination of Vietcong forces; but its modus vivendi would encompass a larger range of social and economic tendencies which are compatible with the American presence. As in South Vietnam, U.S. strategy in Cambodia amounts to shoring up a military dictatorship that will permit American interests to flourish there...
...11th Armored Cavalry Regiment yesterday burned at least five 30-40-hut villages in another part of the Fishhook. Officers explained that the villages were burned because they could be of use to the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese...
Americans are searching for an underground, multi-story complex which they believe is the central Vietcong command headquarters and is situated in this area...