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363-08445 to 363-08449.pdf
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Digital Object Identifier
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363-08445 to 363-08449
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Title
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Article about Cambodia harboring North Vietnamese troops
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Description
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Original title: "Cambodia", Keever's title: N/A, Article draft about Cambodia harboring North Vietnamese troops, for The North American News Alliance
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Date
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1967, Aug. 3
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975
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Location
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Pleiku, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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13.5833; 107.7166
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Size
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20 x 26 cm
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Container
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B118, F6
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Format
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dispatches
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Collection Number
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MS 363
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Collection Title
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Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
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Creator
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Collector
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Copyright Information
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These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
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Publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Language
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English
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extracted text
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Bev rly Ann Doup
64A Ilong Th· p TU
Saigon, Vietn�m
\
August 3, 1967
Cambodia-pa
l
PL KU, SOUTH
ETN M-Fo· the fir"'t time in the V1etnam ar,
Amorioon military officers openly and publically say Cambodia has
ars-ourrontly
·a.t l0a t five knoun regimen.ta.
south
Viotncwcse and American fiold oomm dero are eighing--
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to !:?trike at the north V ietnamc...,e uni ts.
:But this is considered unlikely
be·oauoe of o.dvoz•oo, world- dde politioal reporoussions,
rolia.ble
souro0s r port.
correspondents aro freely
ven briefings on tho sensitive
onoe rosorved only for such aenior
Vice President Richard •
�
in milit�ry offioeo here sho t
o Nixon.
ericans as
Maps display d casually
big blobs of grease paint in-
Cambodia m rked "UVA"-North Vietnamese Army.
( ore)
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TL0 o:f:f:l.c;ir,1 '..!'oodom r;.l von to
f,r.J,_ 1::i.cwn:..,
to di ,ouso 1,b.o :i. souo
clcmicd tlw o,lleg.'!,tion.
J.u.ml�ican fiuld
ommnt1dcro, :rooponoiblo for n;::tc'dng tho Oani'boliit:m
knov.n rc-e:,,:ments of North iotnr.:, ,""C regulDl'G rli tt · tcd acroof'.l the ju.vi led
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.,
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Deopo
t�:o f°'-i 1ri oi one lh!Jm;tiili:lrmn aero so tho 1 i no in
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"\
Decpe
Cambodia--pagc 4
t ouc;b.t
.American commanders, ho rn=.ive1",
·the &hMicG§ Gt
n. mili tru.7 attack against l rth ietn moae uni ts based in Cambo · a
would have
little chance of succos�.
ur:r wo could l-!!,unoh a lightning ground and air attack against
those uni ts--nll in 24 hours�could knock them, .lout easily, "
Ameri .,an mili -'i; ""Y sou.roes ex.plained.
ttBu.t,
we nould havo to have
break
total surpri oe, o:r· else the unit NV uni ts would simply
up and scatter and e'd never get them.
one
The chances arc that
even a blitz i nvasion of c�mbodia would not approciably alter
here very much •
the militai�y situation to favor uo
,;
believe the border
�·ontJy /
war o.6�inst North Vietnemoce main force units hask eaehed a
.Amcricnn field commanders
mili ta1·y d o.dJ.ook in thi a area.
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,e have five North Vietn
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bordeI facing our t
explained.
moved t
"And
coo r gim nts across the Cambodian
troops,"
ono tame:rican military souxoe
ho.d the smne fivo regiments facing us when ·we
hore a y · r ago.
In ono year,
rre have killed 2500
North Vietncmcso rcgula:rs--confirmod by bodycount-and
do m mo1�e r ploocments for their canuultioo.
now replaceccnts are younger and
hey•ve brought
i'b.s difference is the
have loos training,
but the
en y is making up for that w:i th much more lethal weaponry."
(Kore)
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))uupu
iJJ<ricrin intclli&-cnce o.xpcrta arc kno,;,n to hat r.::e thoir
iotrtrmcse strencth in Camba • a. on a wido
�o th
a, "' '.JCS"'' •J.r..t of
vrray 0.1. 0vi< nc ,
including ,_ 01·ial rcconn�i cce,nco fli
ts and ground
o ·•i..;vor·,
11-ivc c... �· .JJ.cd.:.r-�ho
vi
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not � cui·· .... o{enouf),l.
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th:.!t ovun t,b.ic in tic lig n..,o ini'orma.-tion is
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