Word: cambodia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President more support on Viet Nam than his own party, also became embroiled in the debate. A 91-page staff paper drawn for the Senate Republican Policy Committee-but not approved by the committee members-posed two questions about the war: "What precisely is our national interest in Thailand, Cambodia, Viet Nam and Laos? To what further lengths are we prepared to go in support of this interest?" The report attempted to disassociate Dwight Eisenhower from any connection with the current massive U.S. involvement and accused Johnson of "diplomatic Darwinism" in saying that his policy in Viet Nam is "part...
...shooting. > Cambodian Prince Norodom Siha nouk's neutrality for his nation is self-styled in faintly Peking tints. His Royal Khmer army is Communist-armed and equipped. Though he has broken off diplomatic relations with the U.S. for alleged border violations, Sihanouk conveniently ignores the use of Cambodia for transit, resupply and sanctuary by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops. It was thus all the more odd when the prince, in a rambling speech last week, complained that Communist bands were shooting up villages in Battambang Province in northwest Cambodia, far from the Viet Nam border...
Minh [North Vietnamese] and the Viet Cong," said Sihanouk, "the Americans have condemned us. But now the Khmer Viet Minh [Cambodian Communists] have returned their gratitude by saying that I am a traitor and a country seller." He mournfully announced that Cambodia must prepare to fight the ungrateful Reds in the north, added that the country might have to close its embassies abroad to buy arms. After all, he said, "how can we ask China and Russia for ammunition to fight the Khmer Reds?" As for the U.S., "with the Americans we absolutely do not want a reconciliation." None...
...exchange was to reinforce in many parts of the world a growing feeling that Hanoi, probably elbowed by Peking, remains the real obstacle to peace. In Asia, Scandinavia and France, newspapers that had previously regarded Johnson's motives with undisguised skepticism were beginning to change their views. Cambodia's Chief of State Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who three years ago had fervently welcomed China's embrace while reviling U.S. "imperialism," recently reassured Australian diplomats that he welcomes the U.S. presence in Southeast Asia as a counterweight to Peking. Other Asian leaders have made the same point...
...Before minisuited Chris Noel, the G.I.s' disk jockey in Viet Nam (TIME, Nov. 25), could even flutter her eyelashes, Yorty turned to a map of Southeast Asia and launched into Poli. Sci. 101, touching on the Ho Chi Minh trail, North and South Viet Nam, the Viet Cong, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand. His prescription for ending the war: escalation...