Word: cambodia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Turning to the crisis in Vietnam, Stone described the "two Communist foreign policies" of the State Department, one in Europe and the second in Southeast Asia. Although the U.S. differentiates in its policy toward the European states, Stone asserted, "China, Vietnam, and Cambodia seem to all be in the same...
Vietnamese-piloted planes pursued them to the border, killed an estimated 40 Reds with flaming napalm. But the troops had no U.S. helicopter support. Reason: to avoid the slightest chance of intruding on Cambodia's territory, American pilots are under orders not to fly within three miles of the border in areas where it is unmarked...
...miles away, overran five adjoining strategic hamlets and one Self-Defense Corps post. Refusing to let the hamlets' 4,000 peasants flee for protection, the Viet Cong fought off 500 counterattacking paratroopers and other government contingents backed by dive bombers, napalm and artillery. Finally the Reds withdrew toward Cambodia, having inflicted the worst government toll of any single action so far in the war: 94 dead, 32 wounded...
...MALAYSIA. Everybody was trying to make peace between the four-month-old Federation of Malaysia and President Sukarno's belligerent Indonesia. First, Attorney General Robert Kennedy arranged a cease-fire in the smoldering jungle war and set up a peace parley in Bangkok for this week. Then Cambodia's anti-American Prince Norodom Sihanouk ("Snookie" to some) criticized Bobby for "meddling," and tried to arrange a separate peace conference. The upshot was that nobody was quite sure who was meeting whom where...
...European family. The French scarcely bothered to reply, because they brilliantly understood one key fact-that no member of the Common Mar ket cared enough about Britain's admission to break up such a thriving concern. Across the world in Asia, the U.S. championed the independence of Cambodia from French imperialism. Now Cambodians view Americans as conniving rascals and France as a friend in need. Cambodia's Prince Sihanouk last week hailed France for the "incontestable prestige she has been able to recover in the course of the last few years," and burbled that France "is perhaps...