Word: cambodia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rejected the protection of SEATO and seemingly pulled away from the U.S. In the next couple of years, he denounced Communism and described U.S. aid as indispensable to keep Cambodia from falling to the Reds. In 1958 he recognized Red China, and ever since then he has continued to move in a zigzag pattern-or "sawtooth," as he himself frankly calls...
...country to go Communist. He announced that he would replace American aid with that of another Western power, his old colonial master, France-but he also sent an arms-buying mission to Peking. Three weeks ago, not long after he expressed the hope that "the United States and Cambodia would soon be friends again," came a high point: in Pnompenh, mobs urged on by a Ministry of Information sound truck stormed the American and British embassies. They left the USIS office looking as if it had been hit by a tornado, forced the evacuation of 63 U.S. dependents...
...there is method in Sihanouk's behavior. Even his enemies concede that he is a sincere patriot, obsessed by the desire to keep Cambodia independent. The closer the U.S. draws to his old enemies, the Vietnamese and the Thais, the more he feels he must swing to the other side in order to balance matters. He is probably serious when he says he does not really want the victory of Communism in Southeast Asia, because Cambodian independence depends on the continuing, balanced enmity between Communism and the West. Says he: "The day all Viet Nam is reunited under...
...rulers of Southeast Asia, he is probably the most popular inside his own country, partly because he has an aura both of divine kingship and grass-roots politics. Sihanouk succeeded to the ancient Khmer throne in 1941 at 19, when the French were still firmly in control of Cambodia. Although his name, from the Sanskrit, means "lionhearted," he was a pampered prince, fussed over by a covey of nannies; not long ago, to illustrate the importance of milk to a conference of his economic advisers, he introduced them to his old wet nurse...
...threw himself into a fight for total freedom. First, Sihanouk took the field as a general and helped lead Cambodian troops against the Viet Minh Communist guerrillas from North Viet Nam then trying to get a toe hold in Cambodia. Strapping on a Colt .45 and donning an Aussie hat, the young King commanded half a company of Cambodian troops, shared field rations, slept in a pitched tent...