Word: cambodia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...incentive and the influence to act as honest broker for negotiations. It became known last week that Secretary of State Dean Rusk had sent Paris a note painstakingly outlining proposals by which Hanoi and the U.S. could mutually withdraw from South Viet Nam. Yet on his subsequent trip to Cambodia, Charles de Gaulle urged that the U.S. quit Viet Nam and pointedly refrained from directing any similar suggestion to the North Vietnamese aggressors...
Charles de Gaulle arrived in Cambodia last week, touching off a paroxysm of pageantry and adulation that might have humbled a lesser man. As his plane landed, royal guards in gold-threaded tunics and pantaloons stood at the ready with rolls of ceremonial straw matting, in case the exalted visitor decided to sit down on the tarmac...
Personal Attention. Host Prince Norodom Sihanouk had long been on record as considering De Gaulle and Mao Tse-tung the two greatest men in the world; thus, since Mao had never made the scene, De Gaulle was clearly Cambodia's all-time guest. Ever since De Gaulle invited himself, Sihanouk had been beside himself with preparations, personally presiding over every detail...
...drilled Cambodians dressed in reds, whites, blues and greens had staged a kind of half-time football series of tableaux forming the words Vive la France with French and Cambodian flags and Vive De Gaulle with placards, the general took the rostrum. Bordering as it does on Viet Nam, Cambodia was a good place to amplify a message meant...
...Cambodia seemed a long way to go to offer that advice...