Monday, April 3, 1972
Cambodia Key City Isolated
PHNOM PENH (AP) --Communist forces have throttled off traffic on Highway 7, isolating the northeastern provincial capital of Kompong Cham, in a series of small actions, the Cambodian high command said Friday.The high command spokesman said one position near the highway was hit by rockets, mortar and recoilless rifle shells Thursday and that 2 persons had been killed and 12 wounded in fighting around the highway.The high command added that the highway also was physically cut Thursday by an enemy force across the roadway.Elsewhere in Cambodia, the high command reported that the embattled town of Kompong Trach, 75 miles southwest of Phnom Penh, was now quiet and that South Vietnamese forces had managed to reopen one road link to the town from south."Cambodia Key City Isolated", by (AP) published in the Pacific Stars and Stripes on Sunday, April 30, 1972 and reprinted from European and Pacific Stars and Stripes, a Department of Defense publication copyright, 2002 European and Pacific Stars and Stripes.