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...most dramatic turn in the fighting occurred in the northern provincial capital of Siem Reap, only 21 miles from the fabled temple ruins at Angkor. At midweek, following reports of Communist movement in the area, the hastily fortified Siem Reap airport was shut down. Only twelve hours after the last planeload of tourists had lifted off, the Communists attacked the airport, the most modern in Cambodia, and then the city...
Enmity between Cambodians and Vietnamese dates from well before the 12th century, when the fabled temples at Angkor were completed. Some of the carvings there depict battles between the Khmers of ancient Cambodia and the Annamese, forebears of present-day Vietnamese. In modern Cambodia, the Vietnamese and Chinese minorities dominate commerce and light industry, giving them economic clout that the majority of Cambodians sharply resent...
...from the Mekong Delta in Viet Nam to Burma on the Bay of Bengal, backing up their rule by building an elaborate set of canals and reservoirs and making rice a stable crop. They also left behind one of the architectural wonders of the world: the colonnaded temple of Angkor...
...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...