World: Indochina: More and More Fighters

FOR years, it was the place where fighting was off-limits, a sort of combat-free Camelot with mangoes. The Communists, secure in their sanctuaries near the South Vietnamese border, were happy to limit themselves to resting and resupplying there. The allies, fearful of violating its avowed neutrality, kept out almost entirely. But Indochina's Camelot has now become a free-fire zone, and almost everyone with a stake in the outcome of the war seems to be sending troops or advisers into Cambodia.

Ancestral Home. President Nixon, to be sure, maintained last week that the five-week-old...

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