Word: cambodia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consequences, Nixon continued, are almost too great to contemplate. "If Viet Nam is lost, all of Southeast Asia is lost. Look at the surrounding countries. Laos-already gone. Cambodia-leaning so far in the direction of Communism that Viet Nam could push it over the brink. Thailand is a country that wants to be on our side, but it is a nation that has always been on the winning side, and this is the only way its independence has survived for a thousand years. Burma is an economic slum, with immense problems and immense pressures, and it will go. Malaysia...
...Peking-Djakarta axis that raises some disturbing problems for both East and West. The Russians have invested $1 billion in arms and aid to Indonesia, only to find Sukarno plunging into the Peking camp. And thoughtful U.N. diplomats wonder if such anti-Western nations as Cambodia, Mali and perhaps half a dozen others might not be tempted in time by Peking's U.N., if in fact it ever gets off the ground...
...makes a hole five feet deep and ten feet across. With 50 coolies filling the hole and packing it with a battering ram the road can be ready again the next day." Moreover, the North Vietnamese funnel much aid to the Viet Cong along routes far removed from Laos. Cambodia is now a big supply depot for Communist men and equipment moved by sea from North Viet Nam. It remains to be seen whether Washington's quiet escalation can really curb Hanoi's undeclared invasion of its neighbors...
...TIME stated that "Cambodia is virtually a Peking satellite. Prince Sihanouk is openly aiding the Communist guerrillas in Viet Nam by providing them sanctuary" [Nov. 13]. It is clear that, in your opinion, any Asian country that rejects invasion by your armed forces and your ridiculous military bases can only be a satellite of China. The Viet Cong guerrillas have no need of Cambodia as a "sanctuary," where they have never been tolerated. Though your forces may control the towns of South Viet Nam, almost the whole of the rest of the country is in the hands of the guerrillas...
NORODOM SIHANOUK Chief of State Pnompenh, Cambodia...