{"id":17725,"date":"2020-04-30T13:30:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T04:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/30\/south-vietnamese-troops-raid-cambodia-with-us-aid-1970"},"modified":"2020-04-30T13:30:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T04:30:11","slug":"south-vietnamese-troops-raid-cambodia-with-us-aid-archive-30-april-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17725","title":{"rendered":"South Vietnamese troops raid Cambodia \u2013 with US aid: archive, 30 April 1970"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>30 April 1970:<\/strong> The American Command in Vietnam confirms that it provided military support for \u201ccounter attacks against North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Saigon, April 29 <\/em><br \/>South Vietnam admitted for the first time tonight that its troops have crossed over into Cambodia \u2013 and with United States military support \u2013 to \u201cdestroy enemy bases along the border\u201d in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parrot%27s_Beak,_Cambodia\">Parrot\u2019s Beak<\/a> area.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after this was announced in a communique from the South Vietnamese Defence Ministry, the American Command in Vietnam confirmed that, with the advance approval of Washington, it had been involved in today\u2019s operation. US air, logistical, medical, and artillery support were provided, and it appears that American advisers accompanied the troops on what the Command described as \u201ccounter attacks against North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/30\/south-vietnamese-troops-raid-cambodia-with-us-aid-1970\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30 April 1970: The American Command in Vietnam confirms that it provided military support for \u201ccounter attacks against North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces\u201dSaigon, April 29 South Vietnam admitted for the first time tonight that its troops have crossed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1266,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,361,45,430],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cambodia","category-us-foreign-policy","category-vietnam"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17726,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17725\/revisions\/17726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}