Word: angkor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three days that Jacqueline Kennedy spent strolling through the ruins of the 600 temples at Angkor, the noblest remnants of Asia's past, she could almost be the private citizen she wished to be: the ordinary tourist looking, touching and marveling. It was a brief respite, however, on her tour of Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk's Khmer Kingdom (see color opposite). Flying from Pnompenh to the port city of Sihanoukville last week to dedicate a street named for John F. Kennedy, Jackie soon had to cope with her host's propensity for using her presence...
...left Cambodia for Thailand, Jackie was visibly tired, as well she might be. Sihanouk was not only a demanding tour guide but also a difficult-and at times embarrassing-host. While Jackie was in Angkor, he had called a press conference to lecture the captive visiting newsmen on his pet peeve: references to "tiny" Cambodia in the foreign press. He said that "America did not come to Asia to help yellow people; it came to exploit Asia as a neocolonialist power." Later, he took time out from escorting Jackie to receive the new Czech Ambassador to Cambodia and condemn...
...carpet, waiting to be introduced, stood the Cambodian court, the government elite, and the diplomatic corps, including representatives of many Communist countries. For Jacqueline Kennedy, fulfilling a long-held dream of visiting the fabled ruins of Angkor, there must also have been a sense of deja vu. Her reception in Cambodia rivaled any she had received when she was the wife of the President of the United States...
Light Lunch. From Pnompenh, the Kennedy party flew on to Angkor-a mysterious, romantic relic of the great Khmer civilization that vanished in war and bloodshed some time in the 15th century. Besides barring newsmen for most of the stay, the Cambodian hosts set up a "picnic lunch" (five dishes and two wines) for the tourists under tall hardwood trees, charmed them with the soft sounds of tiny gongs, cymbals and bamboo flutes. "Magnificent, magnificent," was Jackie's description of the ruins...
...night, the brooding hulk of Angkor Wat, the best known of the Khmer temples, was illuminated by candles, torches and floodlights. Strolling barefoot through the shadows, Jackie paused to run her fingers over the stone friezes that depicted the ancient battles between gods and men. From Angkor, the Kennedy party was to go to the port city of Sihanoukville, where Jacqueline was to rename a street "Avenue President Kennedy," and then back to Thailand, where she was to dine with the King and Queen...