Word: cambodia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...official proclamation, a government broadcast said that "thanks to divine protection, all Cambodia's enemies suffer complete destruction. Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu were killed by bullets. Their friend Sarit, who mistreated Cambodia incessantly, met with sudden death. Moreover, the great boss of these aggressors met the same fate." When the U.S. officially protested these words, Cambodia denied any derogatory intentions toward President Kennedy, but it huffily recalled its ambassador from Washington...
...Israel goes ahead next spring with its planned diversion of the River Jordan's waters. In Laos, the fighting between the Communist Pathet Lao and the neutralists could flare any time. In Brazil, runaway inflation threatens the nation with chaos. There are incipient crises in Chile and Haiti, Cambodia and Malaysia, and a shooting war in Viet...
...weapons while capturing 300. The Communists control about as much South Viet Nam territory as ever, and infiltration of arms and men from North Viet Nam is on the increase. One alleged route: from Red China and North Viet Nam by ship to Sihanoukville, the new port of "neutralist" Cambodia, thence in junks to the Mekong Delta or by truck along Cambodia's U.S.-built "Friendship Highway" and by boat down the Mekong River...
Shaken Neighbor. What was ailing the Prince? A suspicious, emotional, French-educated descendant of Cambodia's medieval Khmer kings, he once performed slapstick parts in movies (which he produced himself) and has often played slapstick politics. Friends seriously reported last week that two contributing reasons for Sihanouk's bad mood might be that 1) he had been crash-dieting to lose 15 Ibs. in ten days, and 2) the U.S. transferred a former military advisory chief with whom the Prince enjoyed playing volleyball. The Prince himself accused the U.S. of supporting a clandestine radio, on South Viet...
...keeps suggesting a "neutralized" Viet Nam, hinted last week that France may establish diplomatic relations with Communist North Viet Nam). But whether Paris will fill the gap to be left by the elimination of a $30 million annual U.S. dole remains to be seen. France has been supplying Cambodia only one-tenth the U.S.'s contribution, mostly to maintain a 300-man force training the Cambodian army...