Word: cambodia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is no dynamic leadership, that the West has lost the initiative to the Kremlin. There is a serious threat of war in the Middle East that could become another Korea; substantial Soviet gains in South Asia while America's relations with that area decline daily; loss of Cambodia in Southeast Asia to neutralism; serious setbacks to pro-Western Chancellor Adenauer in West Germany; alarming support in Greece for a Communist-backed political coalition; revolutions in our own backyard, in Brazil and Peru...
...then called a congress of the Cao Dai hierarchy to consider the complaints. Three days before the congress met, Pope Tac decided to get out of town. Loading his two daughters and a bearded cardinal into a sky-blue Ford, he headed for Pnompenh, across the border in Cambodia. General Phuong was glad enough to let him go. Cambodian authorities made it clear that the unseated pope is welcome in their country only on the condition that he does not make a nuisance of himself. "I will take the opportunity of my stay here to build a temple," said Pope...
...creative leadership, though it sometimes had a hard time asserting itself through the ranks of "The Team," has disappeared almost totally after the President's heart attack. Since September, the Soviets have smiled their way through Asia and have courted, in a dangerously successful manner, neutrals from Yugoslavia to Cambodia. Imaginative responses from Washington to new Soviet techniques have been nil. In fact, the Middle Eastern muddle is just the latest and best instance of a policy that evidently evolved while the policy-makers were losing drinks at shuffleboard in the Bahamas. Even Senator George, that most agreeable Democrat...
...time, Sihanouk resigned his kingship and became his country's militantly nationalistic Premier. To dignify the changeover, early last April he married shy young Princess Taveth Norleach. Monique seemed definitely out in the cold-but there is no law in Cambodia limiting the number of wives or concubines a prince may take. When Sihanouk left for a holiday on the Riviera a fortnight ago, Monique was his companion, and her passport was made out to Madame Norodom Sihanouk. Last week the Cambodian government revealed that Sihanouk had made Monique Izzi his wife No. 2 less than a week after...
Last week, at Washington's Boiling Air Force Base, De Gastyne was at work on his latest assignment: converting songs by ex-King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia into a symphonic rhapsody...