Word: cambodia
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson is one of the most highly esteemed Americans in Pnompenh. The reason dates back to last year, when Acheson successfully represented Cambodia before the International Court of Justice in The Hague in a territorial dispute with Thailand. Last week the U.S. tried to capitalize on this friendship in an effort to end its acerbic-and somewhat mysterious-little quarrel with Cambodia's vain, unpredictable leader, Prince Norodom Sihanouk...
...rudely rebuffed. Sending Acheson out to Cambodia on a peacemaking mission would be fine, declared the Prince, but only on three conditions: 1) that Washington apologize for the U.S. diplomat who described as "barbarous" Radio Cambodia's tasteless comments on John F. Kennedy's assassination, 2) a formal withdrawal by U.S. diplomats of a question asking whether the "Cambodian government had rejoiced over Kennedy's death," 3) and the closing down of a radio station that Sihanouk claimed was run by CIA in Laos or Thailand for the purpose of sending subversive broadcasts into Cambodia...
...probably only taunting the U.S. out of fear of the Red Chinese and wants to avoid an overt diplomatic break. Sihanouk is still anxious for a Geneva Conference to guarantee Cambodian neutrality, but such a conference is meaningless without U.S. participation. As Sihanouk himself said last week after closing Cambodia's embassy in London, "It appears necessary, without a diplomatic break, to put our relations in slumber...
...Thailand's chaotic government and sagging economy, rooted out official corruption and cracked down hard on Communist infiltration. In the "domino" view of Southeast Asia, according to which the collapse of one country could knock over all the others, Thailand alone stood firm, surrounded by tottering neighbors-Laos, Cambodia, Viet Nam, Burma. When Sarit died last week at 55, the U.S. for the first time in five years was forced to worry whether Thailand would become another of Southeast Asia's wavering dominoes...
...Anybody else get hit?" "You got a fat lip there, boy." During another mission, an aerial attack on two companies of Viet Cong dug into foxholes near the difricult-to-patrol Cambodian border, some of the ground fire came from across a river that separates Viet Nam from "neutral" Cambodia-a river that one American adviser bitterly calls "our own private Yalu." Dismal Seen e. Despite the attempt at improved mobility, South Viet Nam's generals have yet to stage any spectacular feats against the Viet Cong although they have plans on the drawing boards, and government forces last...