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Sihanouk heard of his overthrow from Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in Moscow. At first he took the news calmly. A few hours later, just before flying off to Peking for talks with Premier Chou Enlai, he told Cambodian students at Vnukovo II Airport that he might establish an exile government in Moscow or Peking. Earlier, he had sent off a cable to his mother quoting Kosygin as having said: "If the extreme right continues to strike foul blows on our allies, war is inevitable between Cambodia and Viet...
Back in Phnom-Penh, Lon Nol and Sirik Matak had been doing their best to make Kosygin's allies uncomfortable. They sent pro forma notes of apology to the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong for the damage to their embassies but at the same time handed the Communists an ultimatum: all of their troops must be out within three days...
...within the Kremlin. Citing sources in Belgrade and Prague, the article said that three Politburo members-Ideologue Mikhail Suslov, Trade Union Leader Alexander Shelepin and First Deputy Premier Kirill Mazurov -had taken the extreme step of writing a letter that blamed Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin for failures in the Soviet economy...
...attacks have done little to slow the enemy so far. Ground troops are out of the question. For the time being, therefore, Nixon is trying diplomatic means. Last week he sent a letter off to Britain's Harold Wilson and the Soviet Union's Aleksei Kosygin, co-chairmen of the 1962 Geneva Conference, urging them to fulfill their responsibility for seeing that its accords are honored...
Stable Instability. Nixon answered the message at about the same length and in the same tone. He rejected the implication that the U.S. was responsible for Israel's actions. He reminded Kosygin that since the Six-Day War of 1967 Moscow had turned down every U.S. proposal for limiting arms among the Middle East belligerents and for achieving a negotiated peace. Repeating his statement to U.S. Jewish leaders three weeks ago, Nixon promised that Washington would continue to ensure Israel's safety with arms. The alternative, he said, was for the Soviet government to join finally in peacemaking...