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...NAMED KING. PRINCE NORODOM SIHAMONI, 51, former ballet dancer and son of Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk, who abdicated last week; in Phnom Penh. The prince, considered to be largely apolitical, returns to the royal palace after living abroad for most of his life, mainly in Paris, where he danced for some of the leading conservatories...
...last year. The West Virginia mother is scheduled to stand trial in January on charges that carry a maximum sentence of 38 years. NAMED PRINCE NORODOM SIHAMONI, 51, former ballet dancer and son of ex-King Norodom Sihanouk, who abdicated the throne last week; as the new King of Cambodia; in the capital, Phnom Penh. The Prince, considered to be largely apolitical, returns to the royal palace after living abroad for a large part of his life, mostly in Paris, where he danced for some of the leading conservatories. FIRED MARTA ANDREASEN, 49, the European Commission's chief accountant...
...RATIFIED. An AGREEMENT between the United Nations and the Cambodian government to create an international tribunal to try former leaders of the murderous Khmer Rouge regime; in Phnom Penh. After almost six years of negotiations and delay, the 107 members present in Cambodia's 123-seat assembly voted unanimously to approve the proceedings, the focus of which will probably be on seven alleged former leaders from the brutal reign of Pol Pot. They are expected to be tried for atrocities committed from 1975 to 1979, when an estimated 2 million Cambodians were executed, starved or tortured to death...
Over the past 60 years, Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk has worn many crowns: a bon vivant prince, an absolute ruler, an exile, a prisoner of the Khmer Rouge and, since 1993, a constitutional monarch. Now, Sihanouk is seeking a new role: retiree. The 81-year-old, affectionately known as "Samdech Euv" (Papa King), dismayed many last week when he released a statement announcing his abdication. "I am too old now," the King wrote from Beijing, where he is receiving treatment for diabetes, exhorting his people "to please allow me to retire...
...Sihanouk does step down, it may be because he's tired of trying to mediate among his country's warring political factions. "He's upset with the evolution of the country," says Thun Saray, a Cambodian political analyst. Sihanouk, once Cambodia's dominant political force, set up the royalist Funcinpec party now run by his son Prince Norodom Ranariddh, but the prince is not the political operator his father was. Prime Minister Hun Sen is now firmly in control: he overthrew the prince in a 1997 coup and has since won two controversial elections. In August, Hun Sen persuaded Ranariddh...