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...Middle-class white kids are the most oppressed group in this country," he said. He said the Viet Cong and the Black Panthers know they have something to fight for, but the middle class's oppression is "built-in. They don't even know they're oppressed," he added...
Nevertheless, the outbursts of anti-Communist violence, which obviously had the sanction of authorities on the scene, seemed to go much farther than the Prince's delicate balancing act permitted. With an estimated 40,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops in Sihanouk's country, many of them protecting the southern terminus of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, Hanoi is certain to be alarmed by any threat to its Cambodian sanctuary...
...government has been run by Premier Lon Nol, formerly a top-ranking general, and by Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak, the Deputy Premier. Both are right-leaning anti-Communists who could be seeking to consolidate their own power by carrying the policy of coolness toward Hanoi and the Viet Cong farther than Sihanouk would wish. When informed of the riots, the Prince accused "certain personalities" of trying to throw Cambodia "into the arms of an imperialist capitalist power." He warned that he could be toppled by a right-wing coup...
...reduce their forces in Cambodia. Sihanouk gave some support to that theory in an interview in Paris with TIME Correspondent Roland Flamini. Preparing to depart for home via Moscow and Peking, he said that he would ask the Russians and Chinese "to exercise friendly pressure on the Viet Cong and Vietnamese not to infiltrate our borders." Unless the Communist powers do so, Sihanouk went on, the result will be the "Americanization of Cambodia." Sihanouk no longer appears to be overly worried about the likelihood of Americanization. "Continued American presence in the region is good for Cambodia," he told Flamini, "because...
...ease relations with the police. He has had little success, even though a report prepared by the city manager affirmed that "a high percentage" of harassment complaints were unfounded. "In a few cases police officers had been provoked," the report added. "For example, a young man waved a Viet Cong flag in the face of a police officer who is a veteran of Viet...