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=Cambodia= Home 1955 U.S Pressure March 1969 Carpet Bombings Sihanouk April 30, 1970 Invasion January 27, 1973 Treaty August 1973 Bombings Ceased

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 * Summary:**

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 * ====Under the new American president the situation in Cambodia changed drastically in March 1969====
 * ====Under Richard Nixon, and National Security Affairs adviser Henry Kissinger, the attacks across the Cambodian border became sustained====
 * ====Over the next 14 months, no less than 3,630 B-52 bombing raids were flown over Cambodia.====
 * ====Not until 1973, in the midst of the Watergate revelations, did a fuller story begin to emerge.====
 * ====On 30 April 1970, the first full-scale American invasion of the new war was launched.====
 * ====Three years and more than a hundred thousand tons of bombs later, January 27, 1973 to be precise, an agreement was signed in Paris putting an end to a decade of American warfare in Vietnam.====
 * ====The bombing of Cambodia, however, continued.====
 * ====In August of 1973 all US military operations in Cambodia stopped, including the bombings====

Cambodia Facts:

Infant mortality rate: //male:// 65.74 deaths/1,000 live births //female:// 50.84 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.)** Life expectancy at birth: //male:// 59.27 years //female:// 63.4 years (2007 est.)**
 * //total:// 58.45 deaths/1,000 live births
 * //total population:// 61.29 years

GDP - per capita (PPP):
 * $1,800 (2007 est.)**

Population below poverty line:
 * 35% (2004)**

Disputes - international:** Southeast Asian states must maintain border surveillance to check the spread of avian flu; Cambodia and Thailand dispute sections of boundary with missing boundary markers and claims of Thai encroachments into Cambodian territory; maritime boundary with Vietnam is hampered by unresolved dispute over sovereignty of offshore islands; Cambodia accuses Thailand of obstructing access to Preah Vihear temple ruins awarded to Cambodia by ICJ decision in 1962

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