Word: cambodia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Southeast Asia's neutralists, none has made the art pay better than Cambodia's unpredictable chief of state, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, 37. Since 1955 Sihanouk has extracted $290 million in aid from the U.S., $22 million from France, $23 million from Red China, and perhaps $12 million from Russia. To keep himself from being compromised, Sihanouk, after each Western gift, generally scampers off to Peking or Moscow for an offsetting Red handout. Last week, in a dazzling display of diplomatic virtuosity, Sihanouk unveiled a second rule of aidmanship: always bite the hand that feeds...
...heaven-sent to Moscow. Outside the Cambodian capital of Pnompenh a team of Russian engineers, working with 1,500 coolies, two and a half years ago began to build a soo-bed "Soviet-Khmer Friendship Hospital." matching anything in Moscow itself. Staffed by 18 Russian doctors and medical technicians-Cambodia itself has only a handful of native M.D.s -the new hospital was equipped with ten air-conditioned operating rooms, a cobalt "bomb" for cancer treatment, a hairdressing salon, room telephones, and pale blue potties in the children's wards...
When Kurashov had finished, Sihanouk rose with a bland smile to thank the Rus sians for their generous gift. Then, still smiling, he added pointedly: "Cambodia is prepared to accept aid from any nation. But this does not give the donor the right to meddle in our affairs." Then, ignoring all the fine new hospital facilities before him, Prince Sihanouk set off for Paris-for medical treatment...
...Premier Sarit Thanarat to reporters: "Thailand is the pivot of the free-world alliance in Asia. If one of our neighbors becomes dominated by Communists, rocket bases will be an absolute necessity." Tough Field Marshal Sarit named no names, but his message was obviously meant for Laos and, especially, Cambodia, whose Prince Sihanouk has been busily courting the Chinese Communists...
National elections in Britain and France are run off in three to six weeks. Even in such leisurely Oriental nations as Burma and Cambodia, where political campaigns are measured off by astrologers, an election is no more time-consuming than two months. In an age of jet planes and television, and short-order speeches by ghosts, say the critics, U.S. campaigns are as outmoded as the Stanley Steamer...