Word: cambodia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obvious man to include was ex-Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma, who was put in office by the rebels last August and chased to exile in Cambodia by the army in December. But the King detests Prince Souvanna, who is his distant cousin. Fortnight ago, a Russian Ilyushin 14 slipped into the Cambodian capital of Pnompenh bearing a rebel delegation that tried to talk Souvanna into returning to Laos to head up a rump government in the rebel-held sector. Souvanna cautiously refused to budge...
...Cambodia, relaxing in the "Villa of the Mango Trees" lent him by the Cambodian royal family, former Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma blamed his country's troubles on one man: J. ("Jeff") Graham Parsons, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs and former Ambassador to Laos. "The ignominious architect of a disastrous United States policy," fumed Souvanna. "He understood nothing about Asia and nothing about Laos." According to Souvanna, Parsons "angered" the Russians into intervening by trying to make a militantly anti-Communist state out of Laos. (The prince had no regrets about his own crucial decision...
...Grants of $28 million were extended to Cambodia in 1956 and 1958 to build a small iron-and-steel works and textile, plywood, cement and paper mills; only the textile mill and a radio station have been built...
...million promised by the Chinese in 1955, the Vietnamese finally, in 1959 and 1960, turned to Russia for firmer help. In an attempt to save face, Red China has negotiated a new agreement which incorporates the defaulted aid (similar face-saving pacts were recently concluded with Nepal and Cambodia...
...delegation from Premier Boun Oum visited him in Cambodia last week, found him planting gladiolas on the grounds of the borrowed palace where he lives. They offered him a free choice of posts in the new government, hoping to thus put out of business the "government" the Russians claim to be supporting. Souvanna dismissed his visitors as "a pathetic bunch of clowns" and went back to his gardening. "We have been a plaything of the big powers, a doll which has been broken," he said loftily. "It is up to the big powers to mend...