Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looser interpretation of the accords might avoid part of this mess, but to the chagrin of the Americans, the Indians, as ICC chairmen, have applied the unanimity provisions to the hilt. Until last week there was some doubt that the ICC would agree to the Cambodian and American plan entrusting it with surveillance of Cambodia's border. The Indians felt approval had to be unanimous and to secure Polish support, engineered a compromise which drastically limits the ICC role to investigating "specific complaints" after the fact...
...recent issue contains a letter from an irate reader, Mr. Ball, who feels that college students' reluctance to enlist is "sickening" and also accounts of the Pueblo incident, the battle at Khe Sanh, and the accidental violation of the Cambodian border by allied troops [Feb. 2]. As one of the 98.3% of students who have not yet enlisted, may I point out to Mr. Ball that our reluctance stems in part from our doubts about the ability of our country's leaders to conduct America's affairs and the competence of our military professionals to direct...
...first phase, which produced the battles of Loc Ninh and Dak To along the Cambodian border, was designed to draw American forces away from population centers and rural pacification areas and "force us," as Westmoreland said, "to dissipate our military strength." The second phase erupted in the past week's widespread attacks on population centers and military installations, aimed at rendering impotent for a time the U.S. ability to react quickly to the third-phase "main attack" against the Marines in northern Viet...
...years. His chief opponent and longtime rival, General Nguyen Chi Thanh, wanted to stick with big-unit warfare. Thanh had the advantage of being closest to the action as head of all Communist operations in South Viet Nam from his headquarters northwest of Saigon along the Cambodian border, and he prevailed in the Politburo...
Last week the U.S. State Department sent an apology to Sihanouk, but at the same time took care to set the record straight. The allied unit involved had received heavy fire from a South Vietnamese village located in a border pocket and surrounded on nearly three sides by Cambodian territory. The allied troops attacked and then took the village, and the Viet Cong retreated into Cambodia, firing as they went. In the melee, U.S. and Vietnamese soldiers penetrated some 75 yards into Cambodian territory. "It was not planned," said the State Department. "It occurred in the heat of battle...