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...President Ford's trip next month, conversation will no doubt be useful and to the point -or points. Since Kissinger's last trip a year ago, the map of Asia has greatly changed. The most important differences, of course, are the fall of Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia and the virtually complete withdrawal of the American presence from Indochina. Much of last spring's panic in non-Communist Asia has now disappeared. Nonetheless, once staunch American allies like the Philippines and Thailand are still trying to readjust to a world no longer dominated...
Another Southeast Asian country where China and the Soviet Union are vying for influence is Cambodia. Peking has a clear advantage here. For one thing, it offered shelter and a home in exile to Prince Norodom Sihanouk after he had been ousted by Premier Lon Nol's 1970 coup. For another, Moscow continued to recognize the Lon Nol regime until a few days before the Khmer Rouge conquest of Cambodia...
Last week Sihanouk - who remains, in his words, Cambodia's royal "but not royalist" titular head of state - arrived in New York to address the United Na tions General Assembly. In his 45-minute speech, he ritually denounced "United States imperialism" but also praised those Americans who had opposed the U.S. involvement in Indochina. Later he discussed the problems of postwar Cambodia with TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter...
...Cambodia closed to outsiders? "We have nobody to welcome foreigners in the appropriate way. We cannot provide foreign people with enough food or meat and we have the problem of electricity and running water in Phnom-Penh. There is enough for the royal palace and the small houses for the ministers but suppose we have 20 embassies? That would force us to buy new machines...
...during the war, they were with Lon Nol and you. Then we shall give facilities to France, a friend of the 23rd hour and then the United States will be our friend of the 25th hour. In just a few years we will be able to have everybody inside Cambodia...