Word: cambodia
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Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia greeted Hong Kong Correspondent Eric Pace at his palace in Pnompenh, where he was hosting a dinner in honor of the French Ambassador to Laos. With a somewhat puzzled grin, the Prince informed his 40 guests in a loud voice: "This is an American journalist from TIME. He is making a reportage here although the magazine is forbidden...
TIME has been banned in Cambodia for most of the past five years. A long-term ban came in February 1959, after a rather uncomplimentary report on the Prince. The ban was lifted last year, and then after the story (Nov. 29) about Sihanouk's attack on U.S. aid, a new decree banned TIME for "critical acts of injury against the Cambodian government." But the fact that we are not one of the Prince's favorite magazines nor he one of our favorite statesmen does not mean that we can or should ignore...
Most of the news from Southeast Asia in recent months has focused on South Viet Nam, but turning the story around the ambivalent position of Sihanouk's Cambodia takes it into a broader perspective. Correspondent Pace's own experience was in a way symptomatic of the ambivalence. He flew to Cambodia at a time when most journalists were banned, feared that he might be shipped right out again, but argued with security officials until two planes had departed and left him stranded until the next day. At that point, the officials gave him a 48-hour visa; some...
Bopha is the daughter of Cambodia's Prince Sihanouk, who was the proud host. Graciously he explained the theme of the dance to the spectators: it concerned the encounter of Moni Mekhala, Goddess of Waters, with Ream Eyso, the Storm Spirit. If the mythology was a little confusing, that was only what the world had come to expect of His Royal Highness Norodom Sihanouk Varman, Cambodia's Retired King, Commander in Chief, Supreme National Leader of Buddhism - and known to some unkind Western detractors as "Snookie...
Hardly had that delegation arrived when a serious border incident erupted. In hot pursuit of a gang of 20 Viet Cong, South Vietnamese armored cars and planes attacked the village of Chantrea four miles inside Cambodia. Sihanouk called it "savage aggression," reported that 16 Cambodians had been killed. Pleading faulty map reading, the embarrassed Saigon government admitted the intrusion, apologized, and promised indemnification. But it countered that several guerrillas had been found in the village, thus tending to confirm the well-known fact that the Viet Cong operate freely out of Cambodia. As usual, Sihanouk had some more words. Over...