Word: cambodia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever title he chooses to hold, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, 37, runs Cambodia. He served as King, and then stepped down. Then he served as Premier, but gave that up for the sixth time when his father died two months ago. Just now he holds no official position at all, but nobody questioned it last week when he asked Cambodians to vote on the proposition of whether they liked him and his policy of neutrality in foreign affairs...
...picture; the second a picture of a rival leader now living in exile in Thailand; the third was printed in red to signify approval of Communism; the fourth, marked with a question mark to indicate no opinion. In order to show that the vote would be free, Cambodia invited journalists from Southeast Asia and everywhere else. Of Cambodia's often quarrelsome neighbors, the South Vietnamese (who have just claimed some Cambodian islands) refused politely, the Thailanders not so politely, and the Laotians declined because they have no foreign correspondents...
...dollar sign. It stands for the Shaw Brothers, sole owners of the largest show-business empire in Asia. Their chain of 120 moviehouses and ten amusement parks in a half-dozen countries draws tattooed headhunter warriors in Borneo, svelte Chinese beauties in Hong Kong, betel-chewing peasants in Cambodia, wisp-bearded mandarins in Viet Nam, combative Sikhs in Singapore. No one knows better than the SBs how to turn a profit from this varied audience. At a recent Singapore cocktail party, a rival movie magnate was asked who the two gentlemen in sharkskin were. Replied the rival: "Those aren...
...stepping up their guerrilla activities. For the first time since 1954, the Reds are operating in bands of more than 50 men. Some are old Red cadres left behind at the time of partition; others are newly infiltrated guerrillas sent down from North Viet Nam through neighboring Laos or Cambodia, or put ashore from small fishing boats in the Gulf of Thailand. Their total strength is now estimated at 3,000 to 5,000 men, concentrated in the swampy Mekong Delta-"a diseased part of the body," one U.S. observer calls it. It is a secret, hushed war of stealth...
Died. King Norodom Suramarit, 64, pro-Western monarch of Cambodia, who barely escaped assassination last fall, is survived by his son, Prime Minister Prince Norodom Sihanouk; after a long illness; in Pnompenh...