Friday, May 12, 1972
Lon Nol Hails Nixon Action
PHNOM PENH (AP) --President Nixon's decision to blockade North Vietnam was praised as "energetic, firm, correct and appropriate" by Cambodia's President Lon Nol in a statement issued to the press late Tuesday night.Lon Nol said the Cambodian cabinet decided unanimously at an emergency session Tuesday to examine the American President's speech, finding that actions ordered by Nixon were "the only measures which the United States could envisage in order to bring true and durable peace to our region with dignity and honor."Lon Nol added that an internationally supervised cease-fire proposed by Nixon "represents an indispensable first step toward the reestablishment of peace."The Cambodian president added that the Khmer government believed that any cease-fire must be followed by an immediate withdrawal of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops presently on Cambodian soil."Lon Nol Hails Nixon Action", by (AP), published in the Pacific Stars and Stripes Friday, May 12, 1972 and reprinted from European and Pacific Stars and Stripes, Department of Defense publication copyright, 2002 European and Pacific Stars and Stripes.