Word: angkor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Preah Norodom Sihanouk Upayuvareach is a man of many parts, some of which he enthusiastically plays himself in his role as Cambodia's leading film maker. Last week he staged his nation's first international film festival, at which two of his full-length works, Shadow Over Angkor and The Little Prince, were screened, along with entries from 23 other nations...
...scene shifts to the fabled ruins of Angkor, Director Sihanouk's favorite location, Star Sihanouk convinces Star Monique that he is not a Communist, as she has been led to believe, but indeed a neutral. Love blossoms. The spies are trapped with a radio and a trunkful of gold, and their plot is foiled. But the ambassadress must leave, and she flies off into the twilight as the hero stands at mournful attention on the airstrip...
Some have hailed it as the eighth wonder of the world, others as the rival to Angkor Wat. That may be slightly hyperbolic, but everyone who has made the pilgrimage to Indonesia's temple of Borobudur, just outside Jogjakarta, ranks the soaring pyramidal shrine as one of the world's most magnificent examples of Buddhist architecture. Virtually untouched by tourism, the massive monument rises symmetrically from the serene green plains of central Java...
Finally, strapped by a hard-pressed economy, Indonesia has taken the plight of Borobudur to the United Nations, arguing that a "monument to all mankind" is at stake. After a searching survey, UNESCO's Bernard Groslier, conservator of Angkor Wat, and Dutch Hydrologist Caesar Voute have now agreed, and next month will recommend a $3,000,000, seven-year restoration program. Indonesians see prompt UNESCO aid as their only hope. "The balance now is precarious," warns one Indonesian archaeologist. "The walls of Borobudur could fall down today, and they could fall down in 20 years...
...worried that the Viet Nam war might spread into his country, asked the U.S. to send an emissary. Then, on the eve of Bowles's arrival, he executed one of his more spectacular volte-faces by declaring that the ambassador would be better off visiting the ruins of Angkor Wat than talking...