Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there were always other jobs he wanted to do-most of them for TIME and LIFE. Last week he went out on one more assignment, one that had been chosen carefully to keep him far from trouble. He was on his way to take aerial shots of the Cambodian border when his helicopter picked up an emergency message. Some G.I.s had triggered a booby trap and there were wounded to be evacuated. The chopper landed, and Page ran out to help. Another booby trap exploded, blowing the legs off an Army sergeant, wounding Page in the chest, arm, abdomen...
...given a voice in the provincial governments and be allowed their own military units. But there was a distinct cloud over the ceremonies: FULRO Leader Y Bham Enuol, who had reportedly given full assent to the agreement, was the prisoner of a splinter group of FULRO dissidents in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh. Without Y Bham, who is venerated by Montagnards, the chances of a genuine reconciliation in the highlands remained tenuous at best...
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...
...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...
While rumors of a new Communist drive have bedeviled Saigon frequently since August, allied officers were not inclined to dismiss the current crop out of hand. Heavy action near the Cambodian border, a sharp upsurge of activity in the Demilitarized Zone and the presence of perhaps 1,000 Viet Cong sappers (demolition experts) and other agents in Saigon all pointed to trouble...