Thursday, May 4, 1972
Reds Maintain Hold On Cambodia's Rt. 1
PHNOM PENH (AP) --The Cambodian high command reported Tuesday that the situation on Highway 1, where North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces have seized a 50-mile stretch of road linking Phnom Penh to Saigon in South Vietnam, "continues to give cause for worry."The high command said heavy 122mm rockets hit the besieged province capital of Svay Rieng, one of the few points of the highway in southeastern Cambodia that is still in government hands. Svay Rieng and Prey Veng, another beleaguered province capital in the southeast, are being supplied by air drops, the high command said.The only other significant military activity reported by the high command was a battle 18 miles east of Phnom Penh, close to the village of Kompong Chamlang in the Vihear Suor marshes, the scene of bitter fighting last year. Two Khmer soldiers were killed during the clash in which the enemy abandoned the bodies of seven slain soldiers, the high command claimed.In the capital itself, a plastic charge wounded three persons early this morning in the residential suburb of Tuol Kork, according to military sources."Reds Maintain Hold on Cambodia's Rt. 1", by (AP), published in the Pacific Stars and Stripes on Thursday, May 4, 1972 and reprinted from European and Pacific Stars and Stripes, a Department of Defense publication copyright, 2002 European and Pacific Stars and Stripes.