seats in the government, and have a representative in the capital. Vientiane. Laos is the one country where there has In ine of imperfect knowledge. provide a comprehensive picture the new situation in Cambodia. But it is not just a matter of a power struggle between the Lon Nol clique which has seized office. and Prince Sihanouk Sihanouk most comparable to Sukarno among politicians: leader who conducted apparently left policy, mainly manifested in foreign policy (as 'neutralism') but who failed to establish any organised popular base and allied himself with thoroughly unreliable right-wing elements. Sihanouk has failed to establish his credentials as the leader f the Cambodian people's struggle. An the group which has ousted him is no from within his ruling group, but is his ruling group, minus the Samdech himself. Sihanouk's much eulogised . party appears to have failed to move. This is not to sa: that Sihanouk need necessarily written off: it is open to him to become Cambodia's who leads the Pathet Loo in the Norte Souphanuvong quite apart from Sihanouk's record, which is impressively devastating he has Lang andesig presents tol given little sign of placing himself exile concern restoring himself to power than with establishing the dictatorship SURG peasants and workers of Phnom Penh.
However, having said that, the Lon Nol putsc in the short run a onsiderable threat to the fight southern Vietnam. The operations by US artillery and frontier, and the incursions by ARVIN helicopters acrOs elements into Cambodia are more than ample evidence to show that the putsch benefits the Americans. utterly mendacious to argue. as the bourgeois press has done, that Nixon "does want to expand the war. The "war' has into area. US imperialism, it can here overflowed the artificial boundaries be repeated often enough, is the nu One enemy of all the peoples of th world. It will go wherever the any country are fighting for! right: In the short run this putsch fa