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Developments in neighboring Cambodia were equally unsettling. In Phnom-Penh, anti-Communists led by Premier General Lon Nol and Deputy Premier Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak deposed Prince Norodom Sihanouk as chief of state and ordered North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops out of Cambodia. In a number of border clashes with Communist troops, the Cambodian army called for - and got - help from U.S. and South Vietnamese forces. With the war continuing in South Viet Nam and with the North wrestling with the grave problems that have grown out of the conflict, all four states of Indochina were on the boil...
Last summer Sihanouk made the two men who eventually overthrew him the principal figures in a "movement of salvation" designed to energize Cambodia's stagnant economy. Both had been key officials for some time. Lon Nol is a quiet, pragmatic 56-year-old general who has been Cambodia's best-known anti-Communist for many years. He became head of the national police in 1951 and entered the army in 1952, taking part in operations against the Viet Minh invaders until the end of the French war in Indochina. Three years after joining the army, he became...
...Sihanouk's absence, the 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...
...Junior Tony Rayner (177) was impressive in a 5-2 decision over Steve Batty, and Dave Scanlon's (190) 9-3 victory over Lon Shepp ended the scoring for Harvard...
Steady Dave S?a?lon defeated George Beers, 5-1. in the 190-pound class, and heavyweight Jim Abbott clinched the victory for Harvard by beating massive Bill Hazel, 4-0. Hazel, an imposing figure at 260 pounds, failed to intimidate Abbott. who is overweight...