With Aug. 15 the deadline on U.S. bombing of insurgent forces circling Phnom-Penh, TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand traveled to Cambodia last week to assess the country's mood. His report:
Not much of Thnai Toteong still stands. A few concrete-block walls, a post here and there, enormous 150-liter water jars remain curiously intact. Mostly, the little village 20 miles from Phnom-Penh is rubble and charcoal. Seven weeks before, I had driven through Thnai Toteong and stopped off to buy 4 Ibs. of a rich Chinese sausage so exquisitely prepared that travelers carry it back to Hong Kong as gifts...
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