Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mindless Waves. The target of the week's first attack was no surprise. It was Bo Due, a remote district-headquarters compound within easy commuting distance of the Communists' Cambodian sanctuary. What surprised U.S. officers was the identity of the attacking force. It was the main-force Viet Cong 272nd Regiment, which took such a severe mauling at Loc Ninh last month that Major General John H. Hay, commander of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division, predicted that it would be three to six months before the 9th V.C. Division, of which the 272nd is a part, would...
...Communist troops continues to come down the pipeline from the North through Laos, but the Communists manage to fill much of their food and clothing needs within Cambodia itself. Under a procurement system involving the Chinese embassy in Pnompenh, the Communists buy up to 100,000 tons of Cambodian rice a year. Until the Cambodian army cut itself into the lucrative trade recently in order to raise money for Sihanouk's pet welfare programs, it was handled almost exclusively by Cambodia's colony of Chinese merchants...
...Sihanoukville, Cambodia's outlet on the Gulf of Thailand. They are then trucked over the U.S.-built Friendship Highway to Pnompenh and sent to the border bases along routes that the American military has named the Sihanouk Trail. Occasionally, V.C. guerrillas buy surplus Chinese small arms from local Cambodian commanders, but this is strictly local enterprise by Sihanouk's low-paid officers...
...development that increasingly troubles U.S. strategists is the supply line that the Communists have established through Cambodia to circumvent the dangerous U.S. bombings of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. North Vietnamese and Red Chinese cargo ships are docking at the Cambodian port of Sihanoukville, where Jacqueline Kennedy only a few weeks ago with much éclat dedicated a new Avenue J. F. Kennedy. Then the supplies, particularly ammunition, are trucked along the U.S. aid-built highway to Pnompenh, whence they are moved east to South Viet Nam and into the battlefield...
...Jacqueline Kennedy spent strolling through the ruins of the 600 temples at Angkor, the noblest remnants of Asia's past, she could almost be the private citizen she wished to be: the ordinary tourist looking, touching and marveling. It was a brief respite, however, on her tour of Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk's Khmer Kingdom (see color opposite). Flying from Pnompenh to the port city of Sihanoukville last week to dedicate a street named for John F. Kennedy, Jackie soon had to cope with her host's propensity for using her presence as a publicity platform...