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Since he was deposed in 1970 by Marshal Lon Not, Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk has lived in exile in China but has never surrendered his claim to be his country's rightful chief of state. At 50, Sihanouk is still ebullient, charming and volatile-and increasingly bitter against the U.S., which he thinks is destroying his country. Last week, before flying off on a month-long visit to nine African and Eastern European countries, Sihanouk sat down in Peking for an interview with TIME'S diplomatic editor Jerrold Schecter. His main points...
...Cambodia, where virtually everyone has a favorite fortune teller, the advice of astrologers often determines whether armies advance, governments fall or prime ministers take trips. When rebels bombed his presidential palace recently, Marshal Lon Nol was rumored to have fired some of his senior soothsayers. Last week TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand ventured into the back streets of Phnom-Penh to visit a gray-haired old astrologer whose clients include the marshal himself. Hillenbrand's report...
...What about Lon Nol?" I ventured. In reply, he drew on his slate twelve horizontal bars of equal length and twelve vertical bars, some short and some long. The long vertical bars represented good months and years, the short ones bad months and years. This was Lon Nol's chart, he explained. The marshal had visited him many times, and after the recent bombing of the palace compound, Lon Nol had rushed an aide to the astrologer for a fresh reading...
...marshal has nothing to fear, the astrologer assured me, pointing to the long bars in the chart. Lon Nol has a "good spirit" protecting him, and will rule for five years. The Vietnamese will be out of Cambodia by the end of 1973, and peace will come soon after. The marshal should not leave the country during 1973, but he may travel safely in 1974, especially in June and September, his good months...
...course, Lon Nol will have some bad luck in the next five years. The bombing of the palace could have proved fatal, but fortunately it occurred on a Saturday (a good day) rather than a Monday (a very bad day). He may still be injured in an accident, though it will not be serious. But in 1977, his worst year, Lon Nol will cease to rule...